Downtime cost calculator

What does an outage really cost your business?

Answer a few quick questions to estimate the operational cost of downtime - idle staff, unrecoverable production and recovery costs. This is an estimate, and we show you exactly how it is calculated.

We're engineers at heart, so we couldn't resist building a proper calculator rather than a vague "get in touch to find out" - the sums are shown below, not hidden behind a form wall.

Tell us about the outage

We add 25% to wages for employer NI, pension and holiday pay, and assume affected staff lose three quarters of their time.

A quick way to estimate this: annual turnover × gross margin, divided by annual production hours. Gross profit is more meaningful than turnover - delayed orders are not always lost orders.

How the estimate is calculated

No made-up headline figures

Estimated downtime cost = idle labour + unrecoverable gross profit + recovery costs. Idle labour is affected staff × loaded hourly employment cost × downtime hours × time actually lost. Unrecoverable production is gross profit per production hour × downtime hours × percentage of production affected × percentage that cannot be recovered. Delayed orders are not treated as permanently lost revenue.