The admin tax: how much is manual work costing you?
A 30-second calculator for Australian operators. Plug in your staff count, salary and hours lost to manual data entry — we'll show you the un-billable hours bleeding out of the business and the profit you could realistically reclaim with intelligent automation.
Tell us about your team.
Defaults reflect Australian admin / ops roles. Adjust to match your business — the chart on the right updates live.
Anyone touching invoices, data entry, reporting, or customer email triage.
Base salary per person. Toggle below to add Super.
Typing into systems, reconciling spreadsheets, copy-paste between tools.
Include 11.5% Super Guarantee
The real on-cost of an Australian employee.
Assumes 48 working weeks per year and a 38hr full-time week, with a conservative 60% reduction in manual hours from intelligent automation.
Five-year impact: $237,671
Compounding over time as automation removes manual hours — profit you can redeploy to growth, hiring, or buying property.
Want to lock in $47,534 of recovery?
A 30-minute conversation about which manual workflows we'd automate first, what tools you already have that we can build on, and a realistic timeline. We bring your numbers into the call.
No obligation. No hard sell. We'll bring your figures with us.
Real on-costs
Hourly rate uses your salary divided across a 38hr week and 48 working weeks (allowing 4 weeks leave), multiplied by 1.115 if Super is on.
Conservative recovery
We assume 60% of the manual hours can be removed — the rest stays as oversight and edge-case handling. Real Mushin deployments often beat this.
No vendor lock-in
We build on proven workflow platforms like n8n. No per-task pricing, no surprise bills as your volume grows.