The degree of operating leverage is an important component in the process of the business risk level determination. The business risk is defined not only like the main and integral part of the organization leading process but also like a variability of the result from the operating activity. The higher is the degree operating leverage, the higher is the risk level, if the other factors (influences) are constant. Thus, in this article it is described the essence of Economic Risk thought the Operating Leverage, the method of its calculation and the mode of factors influence determination. Thus the goal of our analysis consists of finding out the factors that are influencing on the Operating Leverage, the size of their influence on the variability of the result indicator, in order to diminish the economic risk.