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Now for running costs:

Required Crew:
Pilot: salary 6,000 Cr/mnth
Engineer: salary 4,000 Cr/mnth
medic: salary 2,000 Cr/mnth
Steward: salary 3,000 Cr/mnth

so a total of 15,000 Cr of wages each month.

Fuel: 500Cr/ton of refined fuel.
your 30 ton fuelage allows for 1 jump, and usually one does 2 jumps per month, so you'll need 60 ton/month.

that's 30,000 Cr/mnth on fuel.

Life support costs 2,000 Cr per occupied stateroom

low berths cost 100 Cr per occupied berth.


TOTAL RUNNING COST/MONTH: 45,000 Cr (not including life support)


OK. Revenue

the amount of passengers and cargo differs depending on population of the worlds being travelled between. (you gotta roll it)

you can do 2 jumps per month. so i'll X2 everything at the end

rough averages of a trip between two average worlds:

PASSENGERS:

High Passengers: 6. 10,000 Cr each. so 60,000 Cr. X2 = ~120,000 Cr. ok you just covered your running costs!

Mid Passengers: none can be taken... all staterooms occupied. (4 crew + 6 high passengers)

Low Passengers: 9. 1,000 Cr each, so 9,000 Cr. X2 = ~18,000 Cr

CARGO: (ships at 1000Cr/Ton)

Major Cargo: 15 tons. 15,000 Cr X2 = ~30,000 Cr

Minor Cargo: 15 tons. 15,000 Cr X2 = ~30,000 Cr


So, TOTAL REVENUE/MONTH: ~198,000Cr

life support costs/jump: staterooms: (10 rooms occupied) 20,000 Cr. X2 40,000 Cr/month
Low berths: 9. 900 Cr. X2 = 1,800 Cr/month
total life support cost of 41,800 Cr


TOTAL RUNNING COSTS/MONTH: 86,800 Cr
AVERAGE REVENUE/MONTH: 198,000 Cr
PROFITS/MONTH: 111,200 Cr


So it's looking pretty good!