Pump Margin
by Breadcrumb Labs
Fee assumptions
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Net margin per gallon

Enter your wholesale price and street price to calculate net margin without a back office system. Switch to blended to compute true street price from yesterday's revenue and gallons.

Net margin / gal
Margin %
Total cost / gal
Embedded sales tax
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This web calculator mirrors the corrected Google Sheet fee assumptions. Prepaid tax is treated as part of embedded sales tax, not as a separate cost line.

Cost breakdown

Wholesale
Excise taxes
Embedded sales tax (includes prepaid tax)
UST fee
Total cost
Street price
Net margin
Fee assumptions from sheet

Gasoline

Federal excise$0.184000
Fed superfund$0.003857
CA AB 32 fee$0.003914
CA excise$0.612000
CA lead poison fee$0.003900
Total excise$0.807671
UST fee$0.020000
CA prepaid (gasoline)$0.075000 included in embedded sales tax; not added separately
Sales tax rate3.5% (CA 2.5% + district 1.0%)
Default street price$6.10000

Diesel

Federal excise$0.243000
Federal LUST fee$0.001000
CA excise$0.466000
Total excise$0.710000
UST fee$0.020000
CA prepaid (diesel)$0.385000 included in embedded sales tax; not added separately
Sales tax rate (effective)13.0% (embedded tax rounded to 3 decimals)
Default street price$7.42000

Source: user-provided Google Sheet GAS MARGIN NET PRICE CALCULATOR. Formula correction: prepaid tax is not added as a separate cost because it is a prepayment against sales tax.

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