What does an hour of downtime actually cost you?
Most owners know downtime hurts. Few have a number. Run the inputs for your operation and find out. Two minutes, no email gate.
Your numbers
Your exposure
Per incident
$2,000
Direct labor cost of one outage.
Annual exposure
$12,000
Direct labor cost across the year, before lost revenue or recovery work.
The number above is direct labor only. It does not include lost revenue, missed deadlines, customer goodwill, recovery time, or the meeting your insurer wants to have.
Talk through your numberHow this is calculated.
The math is intentionally simple so you can defend it in a budget conversation.
- Per incident: employees affected x loaded hourly cost x hours down.
- Annual exposure: per-incident cost x incidents per year.
Real-world impact is almost always larger. Lost revenue, customer impact, recovery work, regulatory or insurance follow-up, and opportunity cost are not included. Treat the result as a floor, not a ceiling.
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