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What is manual work costing you?
Three sliders — the annual price of running your company by hand, and what a build has to beat to be worth doing.
Estimated annual cost
$248,000
12 people × 6 hrs × 46 wks × $75/hr
- Per week
- $4,770
- Hours a year
- 3,312
- Full-time equivalent1,748-hr year
- 1.9 FTE
- Recoverable in year one25–45% of the total
- $62,000–$112,000
- Break-even on a $15,000 buildat the low end of recovery
- ~13 weeks
Assumptions
- 46 working weeks a year, after leave and public holidays.
- A 1,748-hour full-time year (38 hrs × 46 wks) for the FTE comparison.
- Automation removes most of the time on the processes it touches, but not every process is worth automating — hence a 25–45% range, not 100%.
- Annual figures are rounded to the nearest $1,000.