Robot payback calculator
Your wage bill against a robot, bought or rented. Move the numbers to match your site; nothing is sent anywhere.
The work today
People per shift doing this work
Shifts a day
Days a week
$10/h$80/h
10%100%
The robot
How you would pay
$10,000$1M
0%30%
$0$250,000
Pays back in
24–45 months
Expected: 29 months
Net after 5 years +$32,500 … +$149,000
Cash position against keeping things as they are
- The work costs a year
- $104,000 / yr
- Robot takes over
- $52,000 / yr
- Running cost a year
- $10,000 / yr
- Paid up front
- $100,000
The range runs from a cautious case (the robot takes a quarter less of the work; integration and upkeep cost a quarter more) to a hopeful one (it takes 15% more). Arithmetic on your own figures, not a quote. 8-hour shifts, 52 weeks a year, no financing costs or tax effects. Your inputs are remembered in this browser only.