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The Automation Index

The hours admin is costing you

Multiply the people on your team by the admin hours each spends a week, then by what an hour of their time costs. Over 48 working weeks that is your yearly admin bill. The calculator then applies the share you could automate to show the hours and money you would get back.

Everyone who does some admin, including you.
Data entry, chasing, reminders, reports, copying between tools.
Wage plus overheads, in your currency. Use 1.3 x wage if unsure.
The median process in this Index is 69% automatable. We default to 50% because not all admin fits a clean process.
What admin costs you a year
134,400
Hours you could get back a year
1,920
Value of those hours
67,200

8 people x 10 hours x 48 weeks = 3,840 admin hours a year. At 50%, that is 1,920 hours back, about 1.0 full-time people.

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How to fill it in

Count admin honestly: data entry, reminders, chasing invoices, copying between tools, building reports, updating the CRM. Salesforce's 2024 survey found sales reps spend 70% of their time on non-selling work, and Asana's 2023 index found knowledge workers spend 58% of their day on work about work. Ten hours a week per person is a conservative starting point for most small teams.

The default automatable share is 50%, below the Index median of 69%, because real admin is messier than a clean process. To see where your hours sit, browse the 50 processes or read the methodology. The calculator is published by CXJ Labs, which sells automation; the arithmetic is shown so you can check it.