What does an hour of downtime cost you?
Put in your own numbers. The cost updates as you type, and the math is shown in full so you can check it.
Your downtime cost
- Cost per hour
- $375
- This outage, 4 hours
- $1,500
- Per year, if it happens 3 times
- $4,500
Downtime costs about $375 an hour. This outage costs about $1,500, or $4,500 a year if it happens 3 times.
How it's worked out
- Cost per hour
- employees × hourly cost × productivity lost + revenue lost per hour10 × $50 × 75% + $0 = $375
- This outage
- cost per hour × hours of downtime$375 × 4 = $1,500
- Per year
- this outage × times per year$1,500 × 3 = $4,500
This counts lost work and lost sales only. It leaves out recovery work, overtime, data loss, missed deadlines and the hit to customer trust, so treat it as a floor, not a ceiling.
Cutting the hours, not just the cost
Two numbers drive the result: how many people stop working and for how long. Monitoring catches many problems before people notice, fast response shortens the outages that do happen, and tested backups turn a lost server into a restore instead of a rebuild.
See how we handle remote monitoring and 24/7 business continuity.
Want fewer, shorter outages?
Get a free IT assessment. We look at what's most likely to take you down and what it would take to recover, then give you a plain-English plan.