Manufacturing Profitability

Item	Engineer Hours	Item cost (thousands)	Item profit (thousands)	Net monthly profit (thousands)
Fusion Ball Launcher	400	242	281	70.2
Laser Cannon	300	182	211	69.6
Tank/Laser Cannon	1200	500	594	56.4
Medi-Kit	420	28	46.5	31.71
Laser Rifle	400	20	36.9	30.42
Heavy Laser	700	32	61	29.83
Personal Armor	800	22	54	28.8
Laser Pistol	300	8	20	28.8
Alien Alloys	100	3	6.5	25.2

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Here's the list from the OSG (sorted by profit) for you to use as needed: Jasonred : Added the sale price of Special Materials used, and Net profit after factoring them in! Left out figures which made a net loss... no further calculations necessary on these.

Item                    Cost        Sell     Profit  Special Materials   Nett Profit
----                    ----        ----     ------  (sell price)-----   ----       
 
Hovertank/Launcher    $900,000  $1,043,000  $143,000    $177,000
Hovertank/Plasma      $850,000    $980,000  $130,000    $182,500
UFO Power Source      $130,000    $250,000  $120,000    $132,500

Tank/Laser Cannon     $500,000    $594,000   $94,000                        $94,000
Flying Suit            $58,000    $115,000   $57,000    $132,500
Blaster Launcher       $90,000    $144,000   $54,000    $  6,500            $47,500-1A
Heavy Plasma          $122,000    $171,600   $49,600    $  6,500            $43,100-1A
Power Suit             $42,000     $85,000   $43,000    $ 57,500
Mind Probe            $262,000    $304,000   $42,000    $  5,000            $37,000-1E
Small Launcher         $78,000    $120,000   $42,000    $  6,500            $35,500-1A
Plasma Beam           $226,000    $267,300   $41,300    $ 75,000
Fusion Ball Launcher  $242,000    $281,100   $39,000                        $39,000
Plasma Rifle           $88,000    $126,500   $38,500    $  6,500            $31,500-1A
Psi-Amp               $160,000    $194,700   $34,700    $  5,000            $29,700-1A
Personal Armor         $22,000     $54,000   $32,000    $ 26,000            $ 6,000-4A
Laser Cannon          $182,000    $211,000   $29,000                        $29,000
Heavy Laser            $32,000     $61,000   $29,000                        $29,000
Plasma Pistol          $56,000     $84,000   $28,000    $  6,500            $21,500-1A
Fusion Ball            $28,000     $53,300   $25,300    $ 20,000            $ 5,300-4E
Medi-Kit               $28,000     $46,500   $18,500                        $18,500
Laser Rifle            $20,000     $36,900   $16,900                        $16,900
HWP Fusion Bomb        $15,000     $31,500   $16,500    $ 77,000
Laser Pistol            $8,000     $20,000   $12,000                        $12,000
Motion Scanner         $34,000     $45,600   $11,600                        $11,600

Blaster Bomb            $8,000     $17,028    $9,028    $ 15,000
Stun Bomb               $7,000     $15,200    $8,200    $  5,000            $ 3,200-1E
Alien Grenade           $6,700     $14,850    $8,150    $ 10,000
Heavy Plasma Clip       $6,000      $9,590    $3,590    $  5,000
Alien Alloys            $3,000      $6,500    $3,500                        $ 3,500
Plasma Rifle Clip       $3,000      $6,290    $3,290    $  5,000
Plasma Pistol Clip      $2,000      $4,400    $2,400    $  5,000

UFO Navigation        $150,000     $80,000  -$70,000    $ 19,500

See Also

Hiring/firing