The Voice of Locals Economic Calculator
Inputs & assumptions
Country-appropriate starting points — adjust any field.
Net profit margin is the percentage of total revenue a business keeps as actual profit after accounting for all expenses, including operating costs, interest, and taxes.
The economic impact of replacing one product, service, or activity with another due to changes in cost, efficiency, or demand.
Measures how many times money is re-spent locally to create additional economic value.
Revenue earned by local businesses to recruit a new employee for their business.
Local or national Government's spend on benefits for the unemployed people in the country.
National inputs are indicative starting points calibrated from trusted-source ranges (Tax Foundation, OECD, World Bank, ILO) and are fully editable. All monetary values in USD.
The cascade
Each calculated line shows the formula behind it. Figures in USD millions ($m).
| Metric | Baseline | With VFL |
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Outcome comparison
Monetary impact ($m) and FTE jobs created, baseline vs the VFL target
Monetary outcomes share the left axis ($m); FTE jobs created are a headcount and use the separate right-hand block.
Composition of each $1 injected
How every $1 of net local injection splits
The GDP-contribution figure sits outside this split — the LM3 multiplier creates more than $1 per $1 injected, so it is not a slice of it.