Calculating Process Automation ROI

Our ROI (Return on Investment) calculator helps businesses quantify the financial value of a decision before committing to it. Rather than relying on estimates, it translates real inputs — like labor costs, hours spent, and projected savings — into concrete numbers: net benefit, payback period, and return percentage. For businesses evaluating process automation, this matters because the true cost of manual work is often invisible, spread across payroll and lost productivity rather than appearing as a single line item. An ROI calculator surfaces that hidden cost and sets it against the investment required to eliminate it — replacing the question “can we afford to automate?” with the more useful one: “can we afford not to?”

Automation ROI Calculator — Leatherberry Associates
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Annual net benefit
Annual ROI
Payback period
Hours freed per year
Automation efficiency
75%
of manual work automated
Cost recovery ratio
savings vs. automation cost
Labor hours reclaimed
of total hours spent
Cumulative net benefit — month by month
Cumulative net Break-even
Annual cost vs. savings comparison
Labor savings Automation cost Net benefit
Monthly labor savings by task — colored by department
Annual labor cost (before automation)
Annual labor savings
Annual automation cost
Net annual benefit
Select tasks above to see your personalized ROI estimate.