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What does one hour of downtime cost your company?

Enter rough figures about your business and instantly see what an hour of downtime costs in SAR, and what that means over a year. No sign-up and nothing is sent: the calculation runs entirely in your browser.

1. Affected staff

Employees who can't work during an outage

Average fully loaded cost per employee per hour (SAR) Salary, allowances and insurance divided by working hours. SAR 150 is a common estimate.

How idle they actually are: 70%

2. Affected revenue

Monthly revenue (SAR)

Share of sales that stops with your systems: 50% An online store, point of sale or booking platform means a high share.

Working hours per month

3. Recovery and indirect impact

Size of the extra impact IT team hours, emergency support, reputation and management distraction.

Expected hours of downtime per year If you don't know, 8 hours is a conservative estimate for a business without 24/7 monitoring.

One hour of downtime costs you SAR —

How the result is calculated

The calculator uses four components:

Productivity: employees × hourly cost × idle share
Lost revenue: monthly revenue × affected share of sales ÷ working hours
Recovery and indirect impact: a percentage added on top, based on your business
Annual cost: cost per hour × expected hours of downtime

The result is an order of magnitude, not an exact figure. The goal is one number management and IT agree on, which you can then weigh against the cost of better uptime.