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What is the best way to deliver this workload?
Compare equivalent annual workload across a permanent hire, an outsourcing partner and a human-reviewed automation.
Example scenario
Editable demonstration inputs, not verified industry benchmarks. Enable JavaScript to calculate your own scenario.
- Annual baseline human workload
- 2,400
- Annual loaded employment cost
- $95,000
- Productive hours / employee / year
- 1,500 hours
- Outsource cost / workload hour
- $55
- Workload genuinely automated
- 60 %
- Residual human delivery cost / hour
- $45
- Automation one-time setup
- $50,000
- Annual automation operating cost
- $20,000
Lowest modeled first-year cost
Example result only, not a forecast or promise.
- Hire: first-year cost
- $190,000
- Outsource: first-year cost
- $132,000
- Automate: first-year cost
- $113,200
What to do with this result
Validate quality and throughput on the same work sample before comparing options; automation cost includes residual people, not an assumption of zero labor.
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Calculation method
Hire cost = ceiling(workload / employee capacity) × loaded employment cost. Outsource = workload × hourly quote. Automation year-one = setup + annual running + workload × (1 − automated share) × residual human hourly cost.
Assumptions and limitations
- Example inputs are editable scenarios, not Aryo results or independently verified industry benchmarks.
- Time value is not guaranteed payroll savings. Include adoption, human review, exceptions, security and change management in implementation decisions.