Price is the most powerful profit lever. The research is unambiguous.

We're a new agency, so we won't borrow logos or invent case studies. Instead, here's the published data on why pricing moves profit more than anything else you can change — and a calculator to run it on your numbers.

What a 1% improvement in each lever does to operating profit

Avg. of 2,463 companies
Price
+11.1%
Variable cost
+7.8%
Volume
+3.3%
Fixed cost
+2.3%

Source: Michael V. Marn & Robert L. Rosiello, “Managing Price, Gaining Profit,” Harvard Business Review, Sept–Oct 1992. Each bar holds the other three levers constant.

+11.1%

average operating-profit improvement from a 1% price increase — the single most powerful of the four profit levers.

Marn & Rosiello, Harvard Business Review (1992) — 2,463 companies
+8.7%

average operating-profit improvement per 1% price rise across a large company sample, assuming no volume loss.

McKinsey — “Using big data to make better pricing decisions”
3.4×

price beats volume as a profit lever (11.1% vs. 3.3%): selling more units moves profit far less than charging the right price.

Derived from the HBR four-lever data

Those are averages. What's it worth on your P&L?

The leverage is real but it isn't uniform — it depends on your margins and how price-sensitive your customers are. Put your actual revenue and margins into the calculator and see the dollar figure, accounting for the volume you'd lose.

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