From Salary to Sales - Your Exit Plan

The calculator that answers the question everyone's afraid to actually run the numbers on.

You know you want to leave your job eventually. But you don't actually know what number your business needs to hit before that's real. And you've probably been avoiding finding out because what if the number is terrifying?

Here's the conversation I kept having with myself...

For months I told myself I'd leave my job "when my business was making enough." But I never actually defined what "enough" meant.

I knew my salary. But I didn't factor in what my employer quietly pays on top of that - superannuation, insurance, leave, the security of a steady income. When I finally added it all up, my true employment value was significantly higher than my take-home pay. That changed everything.

Then I ran the other side. I looked at what my business was actually netting after tools, after tax, after the invisible costs I kept ignoring. The real number was lower than I thought.

The gap between those two figures? That was the answer to "am I ready to leave my job."

And once I could see the gap clearly, with real numbers, not estimates, I could actually make a plan to close it. I knew exactly what my floor was - the minimum viable revenue I would need to reach, what comfortable looked like, and what confident felt like. I could see how many sales I needed per month at my price point. I could see a timeline.

That calculation is this spreadsheet. I built it for myself. Now it's yours.

What's inside:

6 steps to your exit plan.

A colour-coded start here guide tab so you know exactly what to enter and what the tool does for you. Simple setup, clear navigation. Takes 2 minutes to orient yourself before you start.

Step 1: My Employment Picture This is the tab that surprises people. Enter your salary, and the tool calculates your true employment value including your employer's superannuation contribution, health insurance, phone and transport allowances, leave entitlements, and the safety net buffer you'd need to feel safe leaving.

Most people discover their number is 20–40% higher than their take-home pay. This is the number your business has to match.

Step 2: My Business Numbers Enter your current business revenue by income type (digital products, coaching, affiliate, events) and your actual business expenses. The tool deducts expenses and a tax set-aside to calculate your real business net, the honest figure, not the gross revenue number that feels better than it is.

Step 3: The Gap (auto-calculated) This tab does the maths for you. It shows you exactly where you stand: your true employment value vs. your real business net, and the gap between them. Then it gives you three specific targets:

🟡 Floor: Minimum viable (80% of True Employment Value - you'd be okay but lean)

🟢 Comfortable: Full replacement (matches your True Employment Value like-for-like)

🔵 Confident: Full safety (25% above TEV - covers variable income and unexpected costs) These aren't guess targets. They're calculated from your actual numbers.

Step 4: First Income Plan Enter your primary offer price, current email list size, and estimated conversion rate. The calculator shows you exactly how many sales you need per month to hit each milestone and what list size you'd need to generate that at your current rates. It also calculates your 90-day first income target. These numbers make the goal specific and actionable instead of abstract.

Step 5: My Timeline Choose your transition window: 12 months, 18 months, or 24 months. The tool generates a month-by-month revenue milestone plan showing what "on track" looks like at every point with key decision checkpoints at months 3, 6, 9, 12, and the final transition review.

Step 6: CEO Commitment Your one-page summary. Auto-fills your key numbers from all previous tabs, then gives you space to record your target transition date, 90-day revenue focus, primary offer, list growth channel, this week's one action, and what you're letting go of to make space. Screenshot it. Print it. Pin it somewhere.

Perfect for you if:

✔ You want to leave your job but you don't know what "enough" actually means in real numbers

✔ You've been saying "when my business makes more" without ever defining what "more" is

✔ You know your salary but have never calculated your true employment value, what your employer pays that you'd have to cover yourself

✔ You're building a business alongside your job and you need a clear target, not a vague goal

✔ You want a specific number, a realistic timeline, and a plan to close the gap

✅ Calculate your TRUE employment value (salary + super + insurance + leave + safety net = the real number your business has to match not just your take-home)
✅ Your REAL business net (after expenses and tax)

✅ THE GAP (the honest figure between where you are and where you need to be)

✅ Provides you with 3 specific targets: Floor, Comfortable, and Confident & exactly how many sales you need per month at your price point to hit each one

✅ What list size you need to generate that & a month-by-month timeline to get there
✅ Built by a founder still building her business and tested in online businesses
✅ Simple setup in Google Sheets or Excel.

✅ Instant download.

Just $37 - Get it Now

This is not a dream board. There are no aspirational quotes about "freedom" and no five-year vision exercises. This is a calculator that runs your actual numbers and gives you a specific, honest answer to the question most employed founders never ask properly: what does my business actually need to earn?

It's designed to take 20 minutes to complete and give you the single most important number in your business, the one that every other decision should be pointing toward.

Hi, I'm Niky! Headline

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I'm a business and leadership coach with 18 years of public service leadership experience and a Masters in Entrepreneurship. I'm still in my 9-to-5, building this business in real time, and I built every tool in my suite for myself first because I needed it to actually work alongside a demanding career, a young family, and a fixed number of hours in the day.

The From Salary to Sales Calculator is the tool I wish I'd had a year ago. It would have saved me a lot of "am I ready?" paralysis.

BCom, MEnt, Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner