The Cost of Downtime Calculator

The Cost of Downtime

Annual Revenue (in $):

Enter the annual revenue of your organization or revenue generated by a key application.

Duration of Downtime (hours):

How long is the downtime expected to last? This could be limited to business hours or also include out-of-business hours.

Average Fully Loaded Employee Cost / Hour:

Enter the average cost of an employee per hour including salary, benefits, and office space. $100-$200 is a reasonable figure.

Number of Employees Affected:

Enter the number of employees that can be affected by an IT outage.

Impact to Sales:

1%

As a percentage, define a rough estimation of the impact of an IT outage to revenue generation. E.g., downtime of a web store for an online-only business with competitors waiting to take the same orders would be 100%.

Impact to Productivity:

1%

As a percentage, define the impact to your employees of an IT outage. E.g., if your employees are totally reliant on IT to do their work and cannot be productive without it, enter 100%.

Downtime Cost

Lost Revenue:

$

Labour Cost:

$

Total Downtime Cost:

$

Hourly Downtime Cost:

$

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