How Much Could Automation Save Your Business?
Enter your team details below to estimate how much time and money you could recover by automating manual, repetitive tasks.
1 – 100 employees
$25 – $150/hr — includes salary, benefits, and overhead
2 – 40 hours per week per person
20% – 80% — depends on process complexity
0% – 25% — data entry errors, rework, corrections
Annual Cost of Manual Work
$130,000
2,600 hours per year at $50/hr across 5 employees
Time Savings
$52,000
at 40% automation
Error Reduction
$6,500
at 5% error rate
Total Annual Savings
$58,500
$4,875/month
Estimated Payback Period
~2 months
Based on a typical $5,000 – $15,000 automation project investment
How we calculated this
These estimates are based on your inputs and standard industry assumptions:
- Annual cost of manual work = Employees × Hours/week × 52 weeks × Fully loaded hourly cost
- Time savings = Annual cost × Efficiency gain percentage
- Error reduction savings = Annual cost × Error rate × Efficiency gain — based on the cost of rework, corrections, and downstream errors that automation eliminates
- Total savings = Time savings + Error reduction savings
- Payback period = Estimated project cost ($10,000 midpoint) ÷ Monthly total savings
Fully loaded cost includes salary, benefits (healthcare, retirement, taxes — typically 1.25–1.4× base salary), and overhead (equipment, software, management time). Based on 2026 BLS compensation data. Actual results vary based on process complexity and implementation approach.
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