IT Downtime Calculator
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Most businesses know their IT bill. Few know what it costs when email, files or the network stop. Enter a few numbers and see your cost per hour of downtime, your true annual cost of IT, and what preventing outages would be worth.
Your IT bill is the cost you can see. Idle staff, lost sales and incident risk never arrive as an invoice, but you pay them all the same. The calculator puts them side by side.
U.S. private employers paid an average of $46.89 per hour worked in wages and benefits in June 2026. When systems stop, that cost keeps running. Use your own payroll figure if you have it.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, ECECIdle staff, lost or delayed sales and the cost of a security incident don't appear on your IT bill, but you pay them all the same. This calculator puts them next to what you already spend.
ABTNo industry averages dressed up as facts. Each input is labeled as cited, your input, an example, or an editable assumption, and the math is shown in full.
How this calculator worksTeam size, revenue, a rough IT spend and how often things go down. Estimates are fine.
Your cost per hour updates live as you type, split into lost staff time and lost sales.
True annual cost of IT, a what-if for prevention, a break-even budget and a PDF to share.
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Provided by All Business Technologies. An estimate for planning, not financial advice.
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Defaults are a 25-person example. Replace them with your own; rough is fine. Look for the tag on each input to see where its default comes from.
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Comparing per-employee cost is a quick way to sanity-check your IT budget from year to year.
What you pay for on purpose, next to what downtime and incident risk cost you without an invoice.
From a half-day hiccup to a two-week recovery, in 8-hour business days. Outages rarely end the moment systems come back; catch-up time is real too.
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