What is repetitive work costing you a year?
Most owners have never put a figure on it. Move four sliders and you will have one — with the arithmetic shown, so you can argue with it.
Your numbers
Rough is fine. Nobody knows these to the decimal — the shape of the answer is what matters.
Admin, copying between systems, chasing, re-keying.
The work they'd hand over tomorrow if they could.
Salary plus employer costs and overhead — not take-home pay.
Start at 40%. Rules-based work goes higher; judgement work goes lower.
£18,400
736 hours — 98 working days handed back to your team, or £1,533 a month.
- Hours lost to repetitive work
- 1,840 / yr
- Of which automatable (40%)
- 736 hrs
- At £25/hr
- £18,400
5 × 8 hrs × 46 working weeks × 40% × £25. A working day is 7.5 hours.
That is your arithmetic, not a forecast. Recovered hours only turn into money if the time gets redeployed onto work that earns — and the automatable share is an estimate until someone has actually looked at how the work runs. Treat it as the size of the prize, not the invoice.
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