Who it is for
Owners who mow their own lawn at the office and answer their own phone.
Business and Money · Calculator · Free
The number that tells you what to stop doingWhat Your Hour Is Worth
Divide what the business makes by the hours you put in. Then compare that to the tasks you keep doing yourself.
Runs in your browser. Nothing to install. Save the result or embed it on your site.
Your numbers
What that means
What one hour of yours is worth: $50.91/hr
$50.91/hr
What one hour of yours is worth
2,750 hours a year
600
Hours a year on low-value work
$30,545
What that time is worth
$15,000
Cost to hire it out
$15,545
You come out ahead by
Your time$30,545
Hiring it out$15,000
Anything you can hire out for less than $50.91 an hour and still get done right, hire out. You are net ahead $15,545 a year on the 12 hours a week alone.
Some low-value work is worth keeping because you learn from it or you like it. That is a fine reason. Just make it a decision instead of a habit.
What this assumed
- Assumes the hours you free up go into work that actually earns, which is the hard part.
Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
This is an estimate
This tool returns an estimate based on the numbers you entered. Your real result depends on your own costs, rates and conditions. Check it against your own records before you make a decision with it.
What this tool actually does for you
The problem it points at
You will not pay somebody $20 an hour to do a task, so you do it yourself, at a real cost of ten times that.
What you walk away with
A clear line between what only you can do and what you should hand off.
How to use it
Takes about two minutes. Be honest with the numbers, the tool is not going to tell anybody.
- Enter your yearly profit and the hours you actually work.
- Read your hourly worth.
- List everything you do that costs less than that to hire out. Hand it off.
Put this tool on your own website
Free forever. I host it. You keep it.
This is a real lead magnet you can run on your own site tonight. Somebody lands on your page, plays with the numbers, sees what their problem costs, and now they are on your website instead of a competitor's. Costs you nothing, and I keep it working.
- Scroll up and press Put this tool on my website. The code appears right there, no form.
- Copy the one line you get.
- In your website editor, add an Embed, HTML or Custom Code block on whatever page you want it on.
- Paste it in, save, publish.
- Check it on your phone, then send people to that page.
Works on
WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, GoDaddy, Webflow, Duda, HubSpot, ClickFunnels, or plain HTML. Anywhere that takes an embed code.
What it costs you
Nothing. No monthly fee, no expiring trial, no watermark you have to pay to remove. If you get stuck putting it in, text me at (903) 500-8898 and I will help you place it.
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