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Downtime Calculator: How Much Does Downtime Cost?
  • How many transactions can you afford to lose without significant impact? 
  • Do you depend upon mission critical applications such as ERP or CRM software?
  • How much revenue will you lose for every hour your critical applications are unavailable?
  • What will the productivity costs be for the loss of available IT systems and applications?
  • How will collaborative business processes with partners, suppliers and customers be affected by an unexpected IT outage?
  • What is the total cost of lost productivity and lost revenue during unplanned downtime?

Calculate the total cost of downtime per hour for your organization using as much financial data as possible for each area. Use averages where available for lost opportunity costs.

Calculate Your Downtime Cost

Please Enter the Name of Your Currency: (i.e. US Dollars)  
Duration of Downtime (in hours):  

Number of People Affected:  
Average % of Lost Productivity:   %
Average Employee Wage per hour:  
   
Labor Cost:  

Gross Annual Revenue: (no commas or decimal points)  
How many days per year are you open for business?  
How many hours per day are you open for business?  
What % of lost business is irrecoverable?   %
   
Lost Revenue  

Labor Cost  
Lost Revenue  
Total Downtime Cost  
Hourly Downtime Cost  
If this Downtime occured once a month, your annual
Downtime cost would be:
 
 

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