What does one hand built report cost a year?
Somebody opens the same spreadsheet every week, pulls the same export and sends the same file.
Example: 96 hours a year. Put your numbers in.
Worth $2,060 to $3,605 a year at $53.65 an hour.
One pass is one edition, including chasing the export.
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
- 1
- minutes a pass
- 120
- people
- 1
- working weeks our figure, not 52
- 48
- hours a year
- 96
- automation band our model
- 0.40 to 0.70
- hours returned
- 38.4 to 67.2
- loaded rate $37.50 / 0.699
- $53.65
- value
- $2,060 to $3,605
This counts the rebuild, not the reading or the meeting it feeds.