eBay Fee Calculator — Final Value Fees and Your Net Payout (2026)
eBay takes $14.00 from a $100 sale in a standard category — 14.0% — leaving you $86.00. That is a 13.6% final value fee plus a $0.40 per-order fee. The catch is the base: eBay charges the percentage on the postage you collect and the sales tax it remits for you, not on the item price alone. Rates effective 2026-08-21.
| Item price | $89.99 |
|---|---|
| Shipping charged to buyer | $12.00 |
| Sales tax collectedeBay collects and remits this, but still charges the final value fee on it. | $8.42 |
| Final value fee (13.60%)Most categories. Charged on the item price, shipping, and sales tax combined. | −$15.02 |
| Per-order fee | −$0.40 |
| Cost of item | −$32.00 |
| Actual postage cost | −$9.40 |
| Sales tax remittedPassed through to the tax authority — never yours to keep. | −$8.42 |
| Fee is charged onItem price + shipping collected + sales tax. | $110.41 |
| Your profit | $45.17 |
eBay charged you $1.15 in final value fees on sales tax you never got to keep.
You collected $2.60 more in shipping than it cost you, but eBay took a fee on the whole amount.
How much are eBay fees on a $100 sale?
eBay takes $14.00 from a $100 sale in a standard category — 14.0% — leaving you $86.00 before postage and what the item cost you.
| Final value fee (13.60%) | −$13.60 |
|---|---|
| Per-order fee | −$0.40 |
| Total fees | −$14.00 |
| You keep | $86.00 |
eBay fees at every common sale price
| Sale price | Fees | Fee rate | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10.00 | −$1.66 | 16.6% | $8.34 |
| $25.00 | −$3.80 | 15.2% | $21.20 |
| $50.00 | −$7.20 | 14.4% | $42.80 |
| $100.00 | −$14.00 | 14.0% | $86.00 |
| $200.00 | −$27.60 | 13.8% | $172.40 |
| $500.00 | −$68.40 | 13.7% | $431.60 |
| $1,000.00 | −$136.40 | 13.6% | $863.60 |
eBay final value fee by category in 2026
The headline rate depends entirely on where you list. The table below shows what a $100 sale costs in each of the categories this calculator models, cheapest first, on the standard schedule — no store, or a Starter store. Figures include the $0.40 per-order fee.
| Category | Headline rate | Fees on $100 | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Equipment, Commercial Printing Presses & Food Trucks | 3.00% | −$3.40 | $96.60 |
| Business & Industrial — Heavy Machinery | 3.00% | −$3.40 | $96.60 |
| NFT categories | 5.00% | −$5.40 | $94.60 |
| Musical Instruments — Guitars & Basses | 6.70% | −$7.10 | $92.90 |
| Coins & Paper Money (excl. Bullion) | 13.25% | −$13.65 | $86.35 |
| Trading Cards, Comic Books & Collectible Card Games | 13.25% | −$13.65 | $86.35 |
| Most categories | 13.60% | −$14.00 | $86.00 |
| Clothing, Shoes & Accessories | 13.60% | −$14.00 | $86.00 |
| Athletic Shoes | 13.60% | −$14.00 | $86.00 |
| Coins & Paper Money — Bullion | 13.60% | −$14.00 | $86.00 |
| eBay Motors — Parts & Accessories | 13.60% | −$14.00 | $86.00 |
| Women's Bags & Handbags | 15.00% | −$15.40 | $84.60 |
| Jewelry & Watches (excl. Watches, Parts & Accessories) | 15.00% | −$15.40 | $84.60 |
| Watches, Parts & Accessories | 15.00% | −$15.40 | $84.60 |
| Books & Magazines, Movies & TV, Music (excl. Vinyl Records and NFTs) | 15.30% | −$15.70 | $84.30 |
Two structural things this table makes visible that a flat percentage list would hide. Athletic shoes above $150 lose the per-order fee entirely, which is why that category sits where it does. And Jewelry and Bullion are cliffs rather than marginal tiers — crossing the threshold re-rates the whole sale, not just the portion above it.
How the eBay final value fee is calculated
eBay charges one combined fee that covers both the marketplace commission and payment processing — there is no separate processing charge the way there is on Etsy or Shopify. What catches sellers out is not the rate but the base it is applied to.
What the fee is charged on
All three components of the fee base are real money leaving your payout, but only two of them were ever yours. The item price is yours. The postage you collect is yours, minus what the label costs. The sales tax is not yours at any point — eBay collects it, holds it, and remits it to the state under marketplace facilitator rules that now apply in every US state that levies sales tax.
eBay's fee page defines the final value fee as applying to "the total amount of the sale", and that total includes the tax. This is not a bug or an oversight; it is the stated policy, and it is why the breakdown above shows sales tax twice — once as money in, once as money straight back out — with a fee charged in between.
The rate above $7,500 is marginal, not banded
In most categories the fee is 13.60% on the portion of the sale up to $7,500 and 2.35% on everything above it. That is a marginal calculation, like an income tax bracket — not a cliff where crossing $7,500 re-rates the whole sale. Calculators that apply a single blended percentage to high-value items overstate the fee substantially. Jewelry, Watches, Bullion, and Coins each have their own tier boundaries; this calculator uses the real ones.
A worked example with real numbers
A $89.99 item, $12.00 postage, $8.42 sales tax
Standard category, no store subscription, no promoted listings, domestic buyer. The item cost you $32.00 and the label costs $9.40.
Step 1 — the fee base. $89.99 item + $12.00 shipping + $8.42 sales tax = $110.41. Note this is $20.42 more than the item price, and the fee is charged on all of it.
Step 2 — the fees.
| Charge | How it is worked out | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Final value fee | 13.60% of $110.41 | $15.02 |
| Per-order fee | order is above $10 | $0.40 |
| Total eBay fees | $15.42 | |
| Item cost | what you paid | $32.00 |
| Postage | the label | $9.40 |
| Sales tax remitted | never yours | $8.42 |
| You keep | $45.17 |
Step 3 — what that means. Your margin across the whole order is 40.9%, and eBay's fees came to 14.0% of everything that passed through the order. The headline rate is 13.60% — the gap between those two numbers is the per-order fee and the fee charged on money you never kept.
The part almost nobody prices in: the fee on sales tax
Run the same sale with the sales tax field set to zero and the difference is stark. With $8.42 of tax collected you keep $45.17; with none you keep $46.32. The tax itself is a wash — it arrives and leaves — so the entire $1.15 difference is fee charged on money that was never yours.
Scaled up, this matters more than it looks. A seller doing $60,000 a year in a state averaging 8% sales tax passes roughly $4,800 of tax through their account, and pays about $653 in final value fees on it. That is a real annual cost with no corresponding revenue, and it appears on no fee schedule as a line item because it is not a separate fee — it is the ordinary fee applied to a larger base than most sellers realise.
There is nothing to opt out of. It is worth knowing about for two reasons: it explains a permanent gap between your expected and actual payouts, and it should be in your figure when you compare eBay against a platform that calculates fees on the item price alone.
Does a store subscription pay for itself?
Store tiers do not reduce the final value fee. What they buy is a larger free listing allowance and a lower insertion fee beyond it, so the answer depends entirely on how many listings you run, not on how much you sell. Below, the same $89.99 sale at 40 sales a month, with each tier's subscription spread across those orders:
| Tier | Per month | Free listings | Net per sale |
|---|---|---|---|
| No store | $0.00 | 250 | $45.17 |
| Starter | $4.95 | 250 | $45.05 |
| Basic | $21.95 | 1,000 | $45.62 |
| Premium | $59.95 | 10,000 | $44.67 |
| Anchor | $299.95 | 25,000 | $38.67 |
| Enterprise | $2999.95 | 100,000 | $-28.83 |
Read this as a cost of carrying the subscription, not a saving — every tier reduces net per sale, because the subscription is spread over your orders and the fee rate does not move. The subscription only wins once your insertion fees exceed the difference, which is a function of listing count. If you list under 250 items a month, no store tier will beat no store at all.
Who this is for
Sellers pricing an item before they list it, and sellers reconciling a payout that came in lower than expected. It is most useful in two situations: when you are deciding how to split a price between item and postage, and when you are comparing eBay against Mercari, Poshmark, or Depop for the same item — for which the reseller comparison runs all of them side by side.
What this does not account for
- Returns and refunds. eBay refunds the final value fee percentage when you refund a buyer, but retains the per-order fee. High-return categories behave differently from what you see here.
- Ad rates you actually pay. Promoted Listings Standard only charges when a buyer clicks the ad and buys within 30 days, so your realised ad cost is lower than your rate times every sale.
- Currency conversion if you are paid into a non-USD account.
- Income tax. This is a payout figure, not profit after tax — see the self-employment tax calculator.
- Category-specific caps. A few categories, notably heavy equipment, cap the fee at a maximum dollar amount. Check eBay's category table for those.
Sources and dates
Every rate here comes from eBay's own published selling-fee and store-fee pages for the US marketplace, listed below with the date each was last checked. eBay adjusts category rates and thresholds periodically; if a figure here disagrees with what your seller account shows, trust your account and tell us so it gets corrected.
Questions people actually ask about this
What is eBay's final value fee percentage in 2026?
13.6% in most categories, on the portion of the sale up to $7,500, then 2.35% above that — plus a per-order fee of $0.30 on orders of $10 or less and $0.40 above. Books, Movies and Music are higher at 15.3%; Guitars and Basses are far lower at 6.7%.
How much do promoted listings cost on eBay?
Promoted Listings Standard charges an ad rate you choose, applied to the total amount of the sale, and only when a buyer clicks your ad and then buys within 30 days. It stacks on top of the final value fee rather than replacing it, so a 13.6% category at a 5% ad rate becomes roughly 18.6% on the orders it wins. Organic sales are unaffected.
eBay vs Mercari — which takes less in fees?
Mercari, on a like-for-like item. Mercari charges a flat 10% of item price plus buyer-paid shipping, with no per-order fee and no separate processing fee. eBay charges 13.6% in most categories plus $0.40 per order, on a base that also includes sales tax. The gap narrows in eBay's low-rate categories and reverses entirely for guitars, heavy equipment and athletic shoes over $150. Our reseller comparison runs both at once.
Does eBay charge fees on shipping and sales tax?
Yes, and it is the single most common surprise on an eBay payout statement. Under marketplace facilitator laws eBay is required to collect sales tax and remit it to the state — the money passes through your account and straight out again, and you never keep a cent of it. eBay's final value fee is nonetheless calculated on the total amount of the sale, which its own fee page defines as including sales tax.
On the example above that is $1.15 of pure friction on a single order. There is no setting to turn it off. The only lever you have is that the fee is proportional, so it shrinks as a share of a larger order.
Why is the fee on my postage as well?
Because eBay treats the amount the buyer pays you for shipping as part of the sale. If you charge $12 postage and it costs you $9.40, the $2.60 difference is not clean margin — eBay has already taken its percentage off the full $12. Sellers who set postage well above cost to look competitive on item price often find the arithmetic works against them.
Free shipping does not avoid this. If you fold postage into the item price, the fee base is the same total. What changes is search placement and buyer behaviour, not the fee.
Is the rate above $7,500 really lower?
In most categories, yes, and it is genuinely marginal rather than banded. On a $10,000 sale in a standard category you pay 13.60% on the first $7,500 and 2.35% on the remainder — not 13.60% on the whole amount. Getting this wrong overstates the fee by $281.25 on that sale.
Not every category works this way, and the difference matters. Jewelry and Bullion are charged as cliffs: cross the threshold and the whole sale re-rates, rather than just the portion above it. Jewelry drops from 15% to 9% once the sale passes $5,000, on every dollar. Watches, by contrast, really are marginal, stepping down at $1,000 and again at $7,500. This calculator applies each category's real structure rather than assuming they all behave alike.
Is an eBay store subscription worth it for my volume?
Sooner than most sellers expect, and for two separate reasons that are easy to conflate.
The first is insertion fees. Without a store you get 250 free listings a month and pay $0.35 for each one beyond that. A Starter store at $4.95 a month billed annually pays for itself at roughly 15 extra listings.
The second is larger and more often missed: a Starter store does not change your final value fee, but Basic and above do. eBay publishes a separate, cheaper fee table for Basic, Premium, Anchor and Enterprise subscribers — most categories fall from 13.60% to 12.70%. The first tier boundary also moves down from $7,500 to $2,500, so the cheaper headline rate covers a narrower band. Which of those two effects wins depends on your average order value, which is exactly what the table above works out.
The table compares net payout per sale across every tier at your own sales volume, using each tier's real fee table. Change "Sales / month" and it recalculates.
What is the per-order fee?
$0.30 on orders of $10 or less and $0.40 above that, charged once per order rather than per item. Multi-item orders from the same buyer are charged once, which is a real argument for offering combined shipping. A handful of categories — notably athletic shoes above $150 — have no per-order fee at all.
Does the Below Standard surcharge really add 6%?
Six percentage points, added to the final value fee rate — not 6% of the fee. In a standard category that takes 13.60% to 19.60%. On the example above that is an extra $6.62 on one sale, and it applies to every sale while the rating stands. If you are Below Standard, fixing the underlying defect rate is worth more than any pricing change available to you.
Where these numbers come from
Rates last checked against the sources below on .
Rate schedule version 2026.2, effective .
- eBay — Selling fees (no store / Starter store) retrieved 2026-08-21
- eBay — Store selling fees (Starter through Enterprise) retrieved 2026-08-21