Incomes and expenditures of swimming facilities

The subsequent tables illustrate the spending and incomes of average swimming facilities. It includes both recreational and competition pools, thus why the percentage of income for recreation purposes is so high. Note that swim lessons generate 28% of the income- a high percentace in comparison to the other categories. This shows how families are willing to spend a decent amount of money on swimming lessons and therefore stimulate the swimming economy. Also not the overwhelming 56% of costs that are paid to labor and staffing of the pool. As i stated in an earlier post, lifeguarding costs accont for most of a swimming facilities revenue.

GRAPH #1 COMPOSITE REVENUE ANALYSIS

Recreation Admissions      56%

Swim Lessons               28%

Aquatic Programs            7%

Group Sales                 7%

Competitive Meets           2%

GRAPH #2 COMPOSITE EXPENSE ANALYSIS

Labor                                   56%

Utilities                               24%

Benefits                                17%

Maintenance/Repairs                      5%

Advertising/Promotion                    4%

Cost of Sales-F&B                    2%

Insurance                                2%

Other                                    2%

Cost of Sales — Merchandise        1%

GRAPH #3 — COST RECOVERY COMPARISON (DIFFERENT FACILITY TYPES)

Competion Only-indoor              51.2%

Competion Only-Outdoor             57.3%

CompetionRecreation-indoor         84.6%

Competion Recreation-Outdoor       79.8%

Recreation Only-indoor             96.1%

Recreation Only-Outdoor           131.6%

Mendioroz, Randy. "Public Aquatic Facilities: Revenue Producers or Financial Sinkholes?" Swimming World June 2006: 33-34. EBSCO. Web. 12 May 2011.

Swimming facilities as sinkholes?