Find out what a recurring manual task really costs your team every week, month, and year — and how much you could save by automating it. Instant, in your browser.
Estimates assume 5 work days/week, 4.33 weeks/month and 52 weeks/year. The savings figure assumes automation eliminates roughly 80% of the manual time — actual results vary by task and tooling.
Because manual work is rarely priced, and unpriced work looks free.
A task someone has always done by hand carries a real annual cost in salary, errors and delay — but because nobody wrote it down, automation gets compared against zero and loses. The Parix.ai task cost estimator puts the number on the table.
Time per run × runs per week × 52 × fully loaded hourly cost
The fully loaded rate is roughly 1.25 to 1.4 times salary once employment costs, tools and overheads are included. Using bare salary understates the figure by a third.
Context switching. A five-minute task interrupting focused work costs more than five minutes.
Error correction. Manual processes generate rework.
Delay. Work that waits overnight for someone to arrive has a price in some businesses.
Anyone building the case for automation and needing a starting number. Take the figure into the Automation ROI Calculator for a payback period, compare the two paths with the Manual vs Automated Cost Comparison, or total it up with the Employee Hours Saved Calculator.
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