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Every minute your network is down, your business is bleeding money. This calculator reveals the true financial impact of downtime — from lost revenue and frozen employees to client churn and recovery costs.

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Enter your business details to calculate the real cost of a downtime event.

Revenue & Workforce
Used to calculate hourly revenue loss during downtime
Average salary ÷ 2,080 hrs × 1.3 (benefits) ≈ $35–55/hr for most SMBs nationwide
Most businesses operate at 10–20% productivity during a full network outage
Incident Parameters
Ransomware average: 21 days. Network failure: 4–24 hrs. Hardware failure: 6–48 hrs.
Work that must be redone or cannot be recovered
Studies show 30–60% of SMBs lose clients after a breach or prolonged outage

Total Downtime Impact

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estimated cost per incident
Revenue lost during outage$0
Lost employee productivity$0
Rework & recovery labor$0
Client churn impact$0
Incident response & IT cost$0
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Industry Downtime Benchmarks
Average SMB downtime/year82 hours
Ransomware recovery avg21 days
SMBs that fail post-breach60%
Avg ransomware demand (SMB)$500K
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Frequently Asked

About the Downtime Cost Calculator

How do you calculate the cost of IT downtime?
True downtime cost combines lost employee productivity (hourly wage × downtime hours × headcount affected), lost revenue (revenue per hour × percentage of operations affected), recovery labor for IT and any external vendors, and post-incident costs like customer notifications, lost contracts, and reputation repair. The calculator runs all of these layers for your specific business.
What is the average cost of downtime per hour for a small business?
For most SMBs the cost is $5,000 to $25,000 per hour. Manufacturing, financial services, and regulated industries typically run $50,000 or more per hour. Even a half-day outage often crosses six figures when you include recovery labor and customer impact.
What causes the most business downtime?
In order of frequency: ransomware and cyberattacks, hardware failure (especially aging servers and unprotected switches), human error, ISP outages, and weather or power events. The first three account for around 80 percent of unplanned downtime for SMBs. All three are largely preventable with proper monitoring, backups, and access controls.
How can I reduce downtime risk?
The three highest-impact steps are implementing properly tested backups with 24-hour or better RPO, deploying 24/7 monitoring with rapid response, and enforcing least-privilege access (most ransomware spreads via over-privileged accounts). Securafy's Business Continuity service combines all three.