What do unrecorded hours cost you?
Rebuilding a week from memory misses the short tasks, the quick fixes and the call that ran over. Set your rate and hours to see what that could be worth.
Your numbers
The estimate
If 18% of your billable time went unrecorded, that would be about
€1,403 a month, about €16,800 a year
- In a year
- about €16,800
- Twelve of those months
- Your billable work a week
- €1,800
- 25 hours at €72
- Compared with Pro
- 175×
- The monthly estimate covers a month of Pro (€8) this many times
- Pays for a month of Pro
- 7 min
- Of billed work at your rate
An illustration, not a measurement and not a promise of income. Assumptions: 18% of billable time goes unrecorded, a month has 4.33 weeks, and your rate and hours are the ones above. Pro costs €8 a month before VAT, from the current price list.
How the estimate works
Every step is shown, so you can check it or use your own numbers.
- Weekly billable work is your hourly rate times your billable hours a week.
- The monthly estimate takes 18% of that and multiplies it by 4.33, the average number of weeks in a month.
- The yearly figure is twelve monthly estimates, rounded to the nearest hundred euros.
- The comparison divides the monthly estimate by the price of Pro, and the payback time is the minutes of billed work it takes to earn that price.
Questions
Where does the 18% come from?
It is an assumption, not a measurement: a round figure for how much billable work goes unrecorded when timesheets are rebuilt from memory at the end of the week. Your own share may be lower or higher.
Is this how much more I will earn with Temporal.ist?
No. It is an illustration of what unrecorded hours could be worth at your rate. Whether you can bill them depends on your work and your clients.
Do I need an account to use the calculator?
No. The calculator works in your browser, without signing up and without analytics consent.
Record the hours as they happen
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