What a receptionist costs per year
Start from a typical loaded cost or type the one you pay. The calculator puts the year beside the running cost of a system doing the same job, with the build counted in year one. It also covers a support agent, an SDR and a bookkeeper.
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Leave it empty to use the typical loaded monthly cost, $3,170.
- The person, a month (typical)
- $3,170
- The system, a year ($290 a month)
- $3,480
- The build, paid once
- $1,490
- Difference in year one
- $33,070
- Difference each year after
- $34,560
Stays with a person: an upset caller, which it hands to a person immediately. System prices are starting prices. The monthly figure is a typical anchor, not a measurement of yours.
$38,040. What a full-time receptionist typically costs a year, fully loaded.
A full-time receptionist in the US typically costs about $3,170 a month fully loaded, which is $38,040 a year for around 40 hours of cover a week. An AI receptionist runs at $290 a month after a build from $1,490, so its first year costs $4,970. Enter what you pay to replace the typical figure with yours.
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 person
- The monthly cost you enter times twelve. Leave it empty and the calculator uses the typical loaded cost for the role: salary plus employer taxes and benefits, for a US small business. That figure is an anchor, not a measurement of your business, and it is labelled as one.
- The system
- The monthly running cost from the role’s own page times twelve, plus the build price once in year one. Both are starting prices, so a larger deployment costs more and is quoted in writing before anything starts.
- The difference
- Year one is the person’s year minus the system’s year and the build. Later years drop the build. When your cost is lower than the system’s, the result says so instead of showing a saving.
- What it leaves out
- Hiring, training and management time on the person’s side, and your team’s time reviewing the system’s work on the other. Each role also keeps a part of the job that stays with a person, shown under the result.
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