Gourmet beef jerky sells for $4.00 per ounce.
Using our AirFlow 260
Everyone has their own jerky recipe and drying time depends upon whether you want crispy beef jerky or not.
Here is an example of an estimated business budget for a beef jerky dehydration expense process:
If a gourmet beef jerky package sells for $4.00 per ounce.
If you used beef that is cut approximately ¼ inch thick. Weighting about 240 pounds of wet beef per batch, 60% is water that will need to be removed, that makes a remainder of 95 pounds of dry beef jerky.
It takes about, 1 hour cook time, about 4 hours for dehydration time.
In a 12 hour work day, loading and unloading two batched per day. To save time, using another set of racks and grilles, so as one batch is processing in the dehydrator, the second rack is cleaned and loaded.
Please keep in mind this is based on a good year, if you only did 10% of the projected profit per year, you still would do very well
Example: Total sales per year:
If a gourmet beef jerky package sells for $4.00 per ounce.
2 batches = 190 pounds dry x 16 ounces = 3040 ounces
$4.00 per once x 3040 ounce $12,160.00 per day $12,160.00 x 261 days = $3,173,760 per year
Expenses:
Beef wet: $5.00 per pound x 480 lbs. = $2400 x 261 Days = -$626,400.00 per year
3 labors: @ $15.00 HR = $45.00 HR $45 x 12 HRS. = $540 x 261 days = -$140,940.00 per year
Rent: $4000.00 per month = -$48,000.00 per year
Electricity: $16.50 per day x 261 days = -$4306.50 per year
Miscellaneous expenses: -$100,000.00 per year
Total Expenses: -$919,646.50 per year
Sales total per year: $3,173,760.00 per year
Expenses: -$919,646.50 per year
Total profit per year after expenses $2,254,113.50 per year
This budget plan is only an estimated plan.
