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Cost of Downtime Calculator
Estimate what IT downtime actually costs your organization.
Estimated cost per downtime incident
$27,231
Estimated annual downtime exposure
$54,462
How this is calculated
[LANStatus estimate, intentionally conservative] Based on a standard 2,080-hour work year. This model counts lost productivity and lost revenue only. It deliberately excludes recovery labor, reputational impact, and regulatory penalties — which IBM/Ponemon show can be substantial — so your real-world cost is typically higher, not lower. Productivity loss = affected employees × loaded hourly wage × hours down. Revenue loss = (annual revenue ÷ 2,080) × hours down × your IT-revenue dependency.
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Book a 15-minute assessmentIT downtime is rarely just a technical problem — it is a business problem with a dollar sign. When systems go dark, productivity stalls, revenue stops flowing, and recovery teams burn hours getting back to normal.
This calculator uses your headcount, loaded wage rates, and revenue to estimate productivity loss and revenue loss per incident. Adjust the percentage of staff affected and how dependent your revenue is on IT being up — a law firm and a manufacturer will look very different.
Recovery costs, reputational damage, and regulatory penalties are not included, so treat the output as a floor, not a ceiling. Use it to justify redundancy, monitoring, and a managed-services partner who keeps outages rare and short.