A slow start to the year: one Dose night in January, two Dose nights at 3,000 profit in February, and Helsinki Nights at 500 per weekend in January and 800 in February. Everything else as planned.
The plan runs events a year for in event profit. Paying founders a month leaves , and after estimated employer costs and corporate tax.
Events in the yearAcross 11 event lines
Event profit
Founder salariesGross, 12 months
Left after salariesBefore employer costs and tax
Net profitAfter est. employer costs and 20% corporate tax
How the business is set up
One company, its founders, and the venues each event line runs in. Figures are events per year and yearly profit.
Profit by month against monthly salary costs
Summer carries the year. The line shows founder salaries plus estimated employer costs each month. Months below the line lose money.
Yearly profit by event category
Events and profit by venue
Number of events by event line
From event profit to net profit
Employer costs (pension, social security and insurance) are an estimate at 20% of gross salaries. Corporate tax in Finland is 20%.
If a fourth partner joins
Same events and event profit, with one more founder on the same salary.
Each founder's net share goes from to . To keep each share where it is with three founders, the new partner would need to bring about in extra event profit a year.
Projection
Founders
Event profit
Salaries
Employer costs
Tax
Net profit
Net per founder
Extra profit needed
Every event line
Event line
Venue
Category
When
Events
Avg profit per event
Yearly profit
Assumptions behind these numbers
Profit per event is the founders' own estimate, already after event costs (artists, staff, venue share). Fixed company overheads other than salaries (accounting, insurance, software, marketing) are not included yet.
Summer is June to August. The 14-week summer series run from the last week of May to the end of August 2027; the 12 Valkoinen Sali summer Saturdays run 5 June to 21 August.
Groove Wednesdays are a summer series at Bryggeri.
Helsinki Nights runs every weekend from September to May: 39 weekends in 2027 (52 weekends minus 13 summer weekends).
The Valkoinen Sali monthly night and the second monthly night (the Dose nights) each run September to May, 9 events each. The second monthly night and all the big specials (Vappu, Graduation, Halloween, New Year's Eve) are at Valkoinen Sali.
Vappu is counted on Vappu eve, 30 April 2027. Graduation is on 29 May.
Pessimistic projection: in January only the Valkoinen Sali monthly night runs, at the usual 4,000 profit. In February both Dose nights make 3,000 each. Helsinki Nights makes 500 per weekend in January and 800 in February. All other months match the optimistic projection.
Salaries are 3 founders at 3,500 EUR gross a month for 12 months. Employer contributions are estimated at 20% on top. Net profit per founder assumes equal shares.
The fourth-partner scenario keeps every event and profit figure the same and adds one salary at 3,500 EUR a month. Extra profit needed is the added yearly event profit that would keep each founder's net share at the three-founder level.
Salary, founder count, employer cost rate and tax rate sit in the Company costs source, so a new partner or pay change can be modelled by editing that file in Sources.
Projection based on the founders' own estimates. Snapshot published 11 November 2026.