What percentage of Girl Scout Cookie revenue ends up in the hands of the girl scouts?

Question

Everyone bends over backwards and digs deep into their pockets every year to help out the Girl Scouts with their cookie drive, as if they stayed up all night baking them. I am sure this is exactly what the Girl Scout Cookie manufacturer wants us to believe. So what percentage actually ends up in the hands of the Girl Scouts, and what percentage ends up in the hands of this corporation?

Answer 1

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This is what I remember from the "cookie crumbles" handout we got last year (these are rounded to the nearest even cent).

$.80 - baker
$.60 - individual troop.
$.20 (ish) - patches, stuffed animals, other "incentives"
$1.90 - the local council (National doesn't get any of this money)

So the baker itself only gets about 80 cents per box, the rest stays with the local Girl Scouts.

Answer 2

Despite being a former Girl Scout who faithfully sold cookies outside of a Safeway on cold, cold nights... dear god, one guy bought a CASE of Samoas that one time... I have no idea.

It probably wasn't much, though.

Answer 3

I believe they end up with like .60 per box they sell... if they sell a ton of them I think they can earn up to .70 a box. Yes that's off a box of cookies that costs $3.50 for us to buy. So the girls that are in Girl Scouts get kind of screwed in slinging the corporations cookies and being rewarded with very little in return...

Answer 4

I don't know but I can go for some Somoas! yummers

Answer 5

their troop gets 70 cents a box.
and the girl doesn't get any money,
but she will get program dollars, which she can by little things with like tshirts or stuffed animals.


but really, not alot of it goes towards them at all
it all goes to the manufacturer.

Answer 6

1%

they only get trinkettes and free food - -

Answer 7

Stenobra has it the most correct.... I'm not sure what exactly the divie is this year... mostly the same.... I'm a Brownie Leader, but not the cookie mom. All I know is that selling the Girl Scout Cookies are the main, and sometime ONLY way Girl Scouts are able to do much as a troop that their individual parents aren't forking out money for everything or the Troop leader isn't paying for everything. I had BIG DREAMS for this years troop witha little bitty pocket book until we started selling cookies, unfortunately.. .that's at the end of the GS season as you may say.... and we have to plan something big or a bunch of quick things to do for fun and stuff to use up the money.
Hey, don't let the money fool you though... Support The Girl Scouts in any way you can. If you don't want to cheat us out of money from the cookie sales, donate money..... We have guidelines... but If you know someone who is a girlscout and you offer a donation.... its usually no biggie... or actually its a real biggie a really really really big Thank You. Keep this in mind when those pretty little girls ask you if you want to buy a box of Girl Scout cookies..... If you can't eat them... give them the money for a box... they can eat them.... or ...... donate the troop some money and hey... trust me they can use it....