US manager productivity ROI calculator
Model the annual dollar value of reducing manager admin time with AI. Enter your cohort size, average manager cost, and target admin time reduction to calculate annual savings, pilot ROI, and payback period.
Your inputs
Cohort size: 50 managers
Recommended pilot size: 25–50 managers
Admin hours: 16 hrs/week
US average: 12–18 hours/week for mid-level managers
Reduction: 22%
Prentice pilot target: 15–25% in 30 days
Rate: $75/hour
Include salary + benefits + overhead (typically 1.3–1.5× base salary)
Total program cost including facilitation and tools
Your results
Hours saved per manager per week
3.5 hrs
Total hours saved per week (cohort)
176 hrs
Annual dollar value of time recaptured
$633,600
Pilot ROI
2,475%
Payback period
0.5 months
3-year cumulative value
$1,875,700
These are directional estimates based on your inputs. Actual results depend on baseline measurement from your specific manager cohort. The Prentice pilot generates the real before/after data to validate these figures.
Calculation methodology
- Annual savings = (admin hours × reduction %) × managers × 48 working weeks × fully-loaded hourly rate
- Pilot ROI = ((annual benefit – pilot cost) / pilot cost) × 100
- Payback period = pilot cost / (annual benefit / 12)
- 3-year value = (annual benefit × 3) – pilot cost
- 48 working weeks used (accounts for vacation and holidays)
- This model estimates value of time recaptured — not hours eliminated. Assumes manager time is redirected to higher-value work, not reduced headcount.
Turn this estimate into real data
The Prentice pilot replaces this estimate with actual before/after measurement from your manager cohort in 30 days.