What does chasing open quotes cost a year?
Open quotes sit in a folder, and somebody works the list between jobs so a silent bid does not die.
Example: 115.2 hours a year. Put your numbers in.
Worth $1,649 to $2,883 a year at $35.77 an hour.
One pass is one open quote or job touched once by hand.
How this is estimated
Your three numbers, times 48 working weeks.
An automation gives back 40 to 70 percent.
Dollars divide the wage by 0.699, wages' share of pay (BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, March 2026).
- passes a week
- 18
- minutes a pass
- 8
- people
- 1
- working weeks our figure, not 52
- 48
- hours a year
- 115.2
- automation band our model
- 0.40 to 0.70
- hours returned
- 46.1 to 80.6
- loaded rate $25.00 / 0.699
- $35.77
- value
- $1,649 to $2,883
This counts the chase work, not writing the estimate. Check whether your current job software already sends reminders before you change anything.