Downtime Cost Calculator

What Does Your Downtime Actually Cost?

Enter your own numbers below — every one is editable, nothing is prefilled with an assumption about your business. The formula for each line is shown next to it, and revenue is kept separate from contribution margin so nothing gets counted twice.

🛈 Every number on this page comes from the assumptions you enter, shown as a formula, not a guaranteed outcome. Change any assumption and the result updates — nothing here is fixed or hidden.

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Your annual downtime cost

	Downtime Cost Calculator	Formula
Lost throughput	0	Downtime hours × units per hour
Lost revenue (reference only — not added to the total below)	0	Lost throughput × selling price per unit
Lost contribution margin	0	Lost throughput × contribution margin per unit
Idle labor cost	0	Downtime hours × idle labor cost per hour
Restart scrap cost	0	Stoppages per year × scrap cost per stoppage
Restart cost	0	Stoppages per year × restart cost per stoppage
Total estimated annual cost	0	Lost contribution margin + idle labor + restart scrap + restart cost

Shown for scale only. Revenue is not profit, and adding it to contribution margin would count the same lost output twice — the total below uses contribution margin instead.

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What Does Your Downtime Actually Cost?

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