What does practice admin cost a year?
Ordering, scheduling, reconciling and reporting: the work that keeps a practice running.
Example: 84 hours a year. Put your numbers in.
Worth $1,202 to $2,103 a year at $35.77 an hour.
One pass is one run of the task, start to finish.
How this is estimated
Your three numbers, times 48 working weeks.
An automation gives back 40 to 70 percent.
Dollars divide the wage by 0.699, wages' share of pay (BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, March 2026).
- passes a week
- 3
- minutes a pass
- 35
- people
- 1
- working weeks our figure, not 52
- 48
- hours a year
- 84
- automation band our model
- 0.40 to 0.70
- hours returned
- 33.6 to 58.8
- loaded rate $25.00 / 0.699
- $35.77
- value
- $1,202 to $2,103
This covers the work around the schedule, the supplies and the reporting, and leaves anything confidential about your customers alone.