Free tool

Downtime cost calculator.

A rough estimate of what an outage costs your office. Business numbers only, no personal data, and the math is shown openly. Everything runs in your browser.

Your numbers

$

Wages plus benefits and overhead, per hour. A rough figure is fine.

Optional: lost revenue

$

Leave blank to estimate it from monthly revenue below.

$

Divided by 176 operating hours per month to estimate revenue per hour. Ignored if you filled in the field above.

Estimated cost of the outage

A rough estimate, not a quote.

$450 to $900

estimated total cost of this outage

Staff productivity cost
$450 to $900
Lost revenue
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How this is figured. Staff productivity cost = staff affected x hourly cost x outage hours, assuming staff are 50% to 100% unable to work during the outage. Lost revenue = revenue per hour x outage hours. Total = staff cost plus lost revenue. This does not include data loss, recovery labor, or reputational cost, so the real figure for a serious incident is often higher.