What manual data entry costs your business
Enter the hours your team spends each week typing, copying and reconciling, and what an hour of that person costs. You get the cost per month and per year, and how much of it an agent could take at the 85% we assume, printed beside the result.
Free and without sign-up. The arithmetic runs in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Count the same task every week: invoices, forms, order details.
Capped at 200.
Leave it empty to use $35 an hour, an assumed rate.
- Hours a week
- 10 h × 1 person
- An hour of their time (assumed)
- $35
- A month (4.33 weeks)
- $1,516
- What an agent could take, a year (85%, assumed)
- $15,468
Illustrative. Assumes an agent removes 85% of the hours and a person keeps the rest for exceptions. An audit measures the real share before anything is built.
$18,192. What 10 hours a week of manual work costs a year.
Manual data entry costs its hours times the people doing it times their loaded hourly rate. Ten hours a week at $35 an hour comes to $1,516 a month, or $18,192 a year. We assume an agent removes 85% of those hours and a person keeps the rest for exceptions, which is an assumption rather than a measurement.
How the number is worked out
Every figure the calculator assumes is on this page, so the result can be checked with a pencil.
- The work
- Hours a week, times the number of people doing it, times the loaded hourly cost. A month is 4.33 weeks and a year is twelve months.
- The hourly cost
- Leave it empty and the calculator uses $35 an hour, an assumed loaded rate. Enter your own and the result is marked as based on your figure.
- The share an agent takes
- 85% of the hours, with a person keeping the rest to handle exceptions and review. The agents page prints the same assumption. It is not a measurement: an audit measures the real workflow before anything is built.
- Limits
- Hours are capped at 400 a week and people at 200, so a typo cannot turn into an impossible figure. The cost of errors, rework and delays is not counted.
Questions people ask about this number
Hand the repetitive hours to an agent
An agent watches for the work to arrive, does it in your own tools and writes down every step. The audit comes first, so the build is sized on your real workflow.