Free tool
Tanning bed cost per session calculator
What each session costs a bed in lamps and electricity, and how many sessions a month pay for its share of your costs.
Cost per session, and sessions to break even
The figures in the boxes are an example, not typical numbers. Put in your own bed’s.
The rated life the lamp maker gives.
From the bed’s label or manual.
From your power bill.
Before tax.
Rent, staff, software and the rest, split across your beds.
- Lamps, per session
- $0.24
- Electricity, per session
- $0.34
- Running cost per session
- $0.58
- Left from each session
- $11.42
- Sessions a month to break even
- 53 (about 2 a day)
Lamps: lamps × price ÷ lamp hours × session hours. Electricity: kW × session hours × price per kWh.
Using the numbers
Lamps wear by the hour, so a longer session costs more in lamps as well as power. Price a bed that costs more to run, or one with a newer lamp set, as its own level.
TanVision counts lamp hours for each room as sessions run, and shows Change soon and Change now against the hours you set. See the lamp replacement guide and bed levels and upgrades.
Common questions
- How much does a tanning session cost the salon to run?
- The two costs that grow with every session are lamps and electricity. A lamp set costs its price spread over its rated hours; electricity is the bed’s power draw times the session’s length times your price per kWh. Type your own figures in the calculator above.
- Where do I find a lamp’s rated life?
- From the lamp maker. No federal rule sets how many hours a tanning lamp may run. The lamp replacement guide covers when to change lamps and what may replace them.
- What does break even mean here?
- The number of sessions a month whose takings, less their lamp and power cost, pay for the bed’s share of rent, staff and other monthly costs. It leaves out tax, card fees and anything else you did not type in.