Studies regularly show that PCs costing less than $1,000 typically have a total cost of ownership of more than $5,000 per year.
Computers that take forever to start, run poorly and can't turn off at the end of the day? Use the following helpful cost calculator to figure out how much a poor computing experience costs you in lost opportunity.
Fill in the yellow fields and then press the "calculate" button.
| Employee annual salary | $50,000 | $80,000 | |
| 40% overhead | $20,000 | $32,000 | |
| Employee total weekly cost | $1,346 | $2,153 | |
| Number of employees | 5 | 5 | |
| Total staff weekly cost | $6,730 | $10,769 | |
| Cost hour downtime (37.5 hours/week) | $179 | $287 | |
| PC downtime (hours/month) | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Server downtime (hours/year) | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Total downtime cost/year | $7,448 | $11,917 | |
| Lifetime of PC (years) | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Cost over lifetime | $22,346 | $35,753 | |
| Cost per PC | $4,469 | $7,150 | |