IT Downtime Cost Calculator

What Does an Hour of Downtime Actually Cost You?

Most businesses dramatically underestimate downtime — until it happens. When systems are down, you're still paying salaries, still losing sales, and still damaging customer trust. This calculator puts a real dollar figure on it, then compares it to the predictable monthly cost of proactive Co-Managed IT.

Estimate Your Exposure

Enter:

• Number of employees affected
• Average fully-loaded hourly labor cost (salary + overhead)
• Average revenue per hour
• Estimated productivity loss during an outage (%)
• Hours of unplanned downtime per year (reactive/unmanaged)
• Length of a single severe outage (hours)

The calculator returns:

Cost per hour of downtime = (Employees × Hourly Cost × Productivity Loss %) + Revenue per Hour

Annual downtime cost today = Cost per hour × Hours of downtime per year

Downtime avoided per year = Annual downtime cost × ~80% (the share proactive monitoring, patching, and tested backups typically prevent)

Cost of a single severe outage = Cost per hour × Severe-outage hours

Proactive IT support is estimated automatically from your headcount at all-inclusive ADS managed-services pricing (about $134 per user per month). The point isn't to charge the whole of managed IT against downtime — it's that cutting everyday downtime offsets most of the investment on its own, and a single severe outage can cost more than a full year of prevention — before you count the support, security, backups, and audit-ready documentation you also get.

The Point

A single bad outage often costs more than a year of proactive monitoring, patching, and backup. Our Co-Managed IT and Managed Services and Security exist to make unplanned downtime rare and short.

Next Step

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