Cost of downtime For Your Business

What does an hour offline really cost?

Enter a few figures about the business and see what an outage costs per hour, per minute and per incident. Take a real number into your next budget meeting. The figures shown are an example 300-person firm; replace them with your own.

Downtime cost — live readout Simulated outage Cost rising
Cost of downtime per hour
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Per minute£0
Per working day£0
LIVEIf systems had gone down when you opened this page, the business would have lost £0.00 so far.

Your business

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Rarely 100%. People can still take calls, meet and work offline for a while.

Online orders, invoicing, production scheduling. Count only sales you would lose or delay.

Extra effort as a share of the outage: re-entering data, clearing backlogs, answering "is it back yet?".

More assumptions
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£

SLA penalties, overtime, emergency support call-out.

What an incident costs Your estimate

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IncidentCostImpact
Lost or delayed revenue£0
Paid staff time with nothing to do£0
Catch-up after recovery£0
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How it's worked out. Staff cost per hour is salary × (1 + overhead) ÷ working hours, multiplied by the number of staff and the share of work that stops. Lost revenue per hour is annual revenue ÷ working hours × share dependent on systems. Catch-up time adds a percentage on top of both, and each incident adds the fixed cost.

This is an estimate for planning, not an accounting figure. It leaves out harder-to-price effects such as lost customers, reputational damage and regulatory fines, so the real cost is usually higher. Your figures stay in your browser; nothing is sent to WatchMyTech.

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