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How much does downtime actually cost you?

Most small businesses underestimate the cost of IT outages by 3-5x. This calculator shows the real number: lost employee productivity, lost revenue, and recovery costs per incident. Then it compares that against what proactive managed IT would cost. The math usually speaks for itself.

Your workforce

Everyone who needs a computer to do their job.

Fully loaded (salary + benefits + overhead). If unsure, $45 is a reasonable SMB average.

$

Your revenue

Used to calculate revenue lost per hour of downtime. A rough number is fine.

$

Incident profile

How long outages last and how often they happen.

Industry average for SMBs without proactive monitoring: 4-8 hours.

Include partial outages, slow-to-unusable periods, and full outages. Most SMBs see 4-6 per year.

Total annual downtime cost

$0 /yr

Across 0 incidents totaling 0 hours of downtime

Cost breakdown

Lost productivity $0
Lost revenue $0
Recovery / remediation $0

Managed IT comparison

Managed IT cost $0/yr
Your downtime cost $0/yr

Every $1 in managed IT prevents $0 in downtime losses.

Methodology

  • Productivity: employees x hourly cost x downtime hours x incidents
  • Revenue: hourly revenue x downtime hours x incidents x 70% impact factor
  • Recovery: $5,000 per incident (industry average for SMB remediation)
  • Managed IT: $159/endpoint/month (Sage Secure tier)

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