Free small-business calculator

What does that recurring report cost each year?

Enter the time, frequency, staff involved, and loaded hourly cost. The calculator estimates the direct annual labor spent assembling the report—including rework. Nothing entered here is transmitted or saved.

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Use your real operating numbers.

Loaded hourly cost can include wage, payroll burden, benefits, and overhead. The estimate excludes opportunity cost, decision delay, software fees, and the cost of bad decisions.

Method and limits

A screening estimate, not an ROI promise.

Direct labor only

The estimate multiplies staff time by frequency, people, loaded hourly cost, and rework. It does not assign a dollar value to faster decisions or fewer mistakes.

Automation is not 100%

A useful system still needs source review, exception handling, and management judgment. The calculator does not claim every current hour will disappear.

Test one cycle

The cheapest proof is one representative file and one reporting cycle. Confirm the input, formulas, output, and rerun time before expanding the system.

South Georgia + North Florida

Fix the repeated work, then stop.

SWH serves small businesses across the region by remote delivery. You keep the editable files and operating instructions.

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