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Automation ROI Calculator
Estimate the impact of a workflow change across labor, revenue and other benefits. Adjust this illustrative example to match your work.
Labor savings use 52 weeks per year. Revenue improvement uses 249 working days. The cost illustration is 25% of annual labor savings, not a project quote. Results depend on your inputs and are not promised savings.
1. Direct labor savings
Compare weekly hours before and after the change.
2. Indirect benefits
Estimate the annual value of other benefits, such as fewer rework incidents.
3. Revenue improvement
Describe additional daily revenue opportunities. Consider whether your business can actually capture them.
Your estimate
Example: Manual Quality Assurance of Monthly Financial Reports. The quality assurance process for monthly financial reports requires a dedicated team of three analysts working full-time for three consecutive days every month. Their sole focus is to manually validate that seven critical financial reports were internally consistent, fully reconciled, and aligned with the prior month’s ending balances and all balances forward aligns with the billing system. This effort includes thousands of line-item comparisons across disparate data formats, often involving Sigma dashboards, hand-keyed cross-checks, and back-and-forth validations. Any discrepancies, even by a few cents, triggers a full re-review. The manual nature of the work makes the process painstakingly slow, cognitively exhausting, and highly prone to human error, especially under time pressure near reporting deadlines.
- Annual hours saved
- 1,014
- Annual labor savings
- $44,109.00
- Annual indirect benefits
- $65,000.00
- Annual revenue improvement
- $74,700.00
- Total annual benefit
- $183,809.00
- Illustrative cost (25% of labor savings)
- $11,027.25
- Benefit after illustrative cost
- $172,781.75
- Benefit / cost
- 1,667%
This ratio uses total benefits divided by the illustrative cost. A zero or negative labor-savings estimate has no meaningful cost ratio and is shown as 0%. Estimates are not pricing or guaranteed outcomes.