Cost calculator

What busywork costs you.
What you get back.

Pick your business, check what sounds familiar, and see the cost, the savings and the payback — built from market data and your own numbers.

The cost of busywork

What repetitive work is
costing your business.

Pick your business type, then check every pain point that sounds like your week. Most owners check more than they expected. You’ll see what each one costs, based on published market data, and how much you could get back.

1Choose your business

2Enter your numbers A rough guess is fine — the defaults are typical.

3Check what sounds like your week Tap “Sounds familiar?” on each one that happens to you.

4Your results

Market rates are cited in each breakdown; the numbers in the boxes are typical examples — change them to yours. Savings use conservative recovery rates.

How we calculated it

    What fixes it

      Fix this for my business
      How the estimate works

      Built on market data,
      not on promises.

      Every number in the ROI estimate comes from published research or our live price list — so you can check the math yourself.

      01 · Time

      Hours spent today

      How often each task happens × how long it takes — your numbers, with typical defaults for your industry.

      02 · Labor cost

      ~$33 per staff hour

      The $23.23 median admin wage, grossed up because wages are only 70.1% of what an employee costs.

      03 · What automation recovers

      Conservative rates

      We use the low end of published research for how much of each task can be automated and how much lost revenue comes back.

      04 · Your price

      Live price list

      The starting price of each automation you choose, plus monthly care.

      Sources: BLS, Secretaries + Admin Assistants median wage · BLS, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation · McKinsey Global Institute, 2023 · each figure in the calculator links to its own source.

      Like the numbers?
      Let’s make them yours.

      Book a free process audit and we’ll turn this estimate into a plan built around your exact processes.

      No obligation. We start by understanding your workflow — then recommend the smallest system that solves it.

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