What does calling people back cost a year?
Calls go to voicemail while everybody is on a job, and somebody works through them at six.
Example: 120 hours a year. Put your numbers in.
Worth $1,717 to $3,005 a year at $35.77 an hour.
One pass is one missed call handled by hand.
How this is estimated
Your three numbers, times 48 working weeks.
An automation gives back 40 to 70 percent of that. The band is our model.
Dollars divide the wage by 0.699, the share of pay that is wages (BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, March 2026).
- passes a week
- 25
- minutes a pass
- 6
- people
- 1
- working weeks our figure, not 52
- 48
- hours a year
- 120
- automation band our model
- 0.40 to 0.70
- hours returned
- 48 to 84
- loaded rate $25.00 / 0.699
- $35.77
- value
- $1,717 to $3,005
Check your job software first, because it often includes text back already.