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See what one shirt really costs, materials, packaging and your time included, and what to charge. It starts with a real example: one color screen printed tee. Change it to yours. No signup.
Updated . Example prices checked on supplier sites the same month.
The share of the price you keep as profit. 50% means the price is twice your cost.
Example prices, October 2026. Change them to yours.
Cost per shirt
$8.76
Sell at $17.51 for a 50% margin, a profit of $8.76 per shirt.
Keep this recipe. Stockria saves it with your materials, so the cost updates when a price changes and each batch you make takes stock off the shelf.
Small print shops often run orders of 24 to 72 shirts. This example screen prints a one color front design on 24 tees, with one screen and the dryer running about 40 minutes. Here is the batch the calculator starts with, worked out the same way. It makes 24 shirts at $8.76 each.
| Material | Used | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Plastisol ink, white, pint$22.95 for 16 fl oz | 12 fl oz | $17.21 |
| Photo emulsion, quart$41.99 for 28 fl oz | 1.5 fl oz | $2.25 |
| Blank tee (soft cotton, XS to XL)$5.78 for 1 piece | 24 | $138.72 |
| Poly mailer 10 x 13 in$20.00 for 100 pieces | 24 | $4.80 |
| Labour: 2 h at $20.00/hr | $40.00 | |
| Time on the dryer and exposure unit: 43 min at $10.00/hr | $7.17 | |
| Total for 24 shirts | $210.15 | |
| Cost per shirt | $8.76 | |
Prices change and shipping is extra. They are here to make the example real, not as a quote. Put your own prices in the calculator.
Want the reasoning behind each step, with tips for t-shirt printers? Read how to price a printed t-shirt.
In the example on this page (one color screen printed tee, 24 shirts per batch, prices from October 2026), one shirt costs $8.76. That counts every material, packaging and 2 h of labour at $20.00 an hour, plus 43 min on the dryer and exposure unit. Your cost depends on your prices and your batch size, so put in your own numbers.
Divide your cost per shirt by 1 minus the margin you want. With a cost of $8.76 and a 50% margin, the price is $8.76 / 0.50 = $17.51. If you also sell wholesale, check that half of that price still covers your cost.
From supplier product pages checked in October 2026: Jiffy, ScreenPrinting.com, McLogan, Uline, Jiffy Transfers. Shipping is not included. The prices make the example real; they are not a quote, so change them to what you paid.
Yes. Click "Save this as a recipe in Stockria". A free account opens with your materials and this shirt as a product made from them, costed the same way as here. When a material price changes, the cost per shirt changes with it.
Yes. Enter the amount you use and the pack you buy in any unit of the same kind: grams with kilos, ounces or pounds; millilitres with litres or fluid ounces; millimetres with metres, inches or feet. The calculator converts before it does the maths.