fixed cost

noun

a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).

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Companies felt pressed to champion agile strategies in a competitive market and looked to the gig economy for the answer, minimizing fixed costs in the process.
Breaking old habits: Hybrid-working setups call for different ways of communicating | Jessica Davies | August 27, 2021 | Digiday
In addition to the usual suspects of fixed costs — insurance, taxes, bank charges, POS, garbage, dishwasher, $9,000 monthly rent, hood cleaning, phone, loan repayments, and so on — Reem’s folds salaried management into this bracket.
How an SF Restaurant Can Turn a Profit — Even With 40 Percent Labor Costs | Corey Mintz | July 13, 2021 | Eater
Lower the fixed costs and the enormous bureaucracy founders face when spinning off.
Germany’s VC industry is ready to take off, but bureaucrats need to release the handbrake | Annie Siebert | July 9, 2021 | TechCrunch
One set of fixed cost is all of the R&D—you need to come up with the chip’s ideas.
From Cars to Toasters, America's Semiconductor Shortage Is Wreaking Havoc on Our Lives. Can We Fix It? | Andrew Blum | June 28, 2021 | Time
Doing so could mean more fixed costs at a time when companies wanted costs that could be dialed up and down in response to an unpredictable market.
Brands rethink their in-housing plans after tactic was ‘put on ice’ amid pandemic | Seb Joseph | April 20, 2021 | Digiday

So, Fridays at five o' clock the MRI machine is probably not being used, and that's a fixed cost.
The App-Based Health Care of the Future | Joshua Rivera | June 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Now on top of that fixed cost you have a marginal cost: the amount that it costs you to actually put a patient in a room.
Can the Government Control Health Care Costs By Fiat | Megan McArdle | March 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
You could see Groupon being a good way to get rid of products that are high fixed cost, low marginal cost goods.
Groupon Fires its CEO | Megan McArdle | February 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Assume your fixed cost of getting the plane off the ground is $1300, so you've got a total cost of $1420 and revenue of $1500.
No Matter What the Supreme Court Decides, Textbooks Will Continue to Be Expensive | Megan McArdle | October 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

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