What does practice admin cost a year?
Ordering, scheduling, reconciling and reporting: the work that keeps a practice running.
Example: 84 hours a year. Put your numbers in.
Worth $1,202 to $2,103 a year at $35.77 an hour.
One pass is one run of the task, start to finish.
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
- 3
- minutes a pass
- 35
- people
- 1
- working weeks our figure, not 52
- 48
- hours a year
- 84
- automation band our model
- 0.40 to 0.70
- hours returned
- 33.6 to 58.8
- loaded rate $25.00 / 0.699
- $35.77
- value
- $1,202 to $2,103
This covers the work around the schedule, the supplies and the reporting.