Interactive Tool
The Fair Pay Calculator
What broken processes cost your business and your workers.
Every pay period, broken time tracking processes cost companies money they shouldn't lose — and shortchange workers by just as much.
Paper timesheets filled out from memory. Manual re-entry between disconnected systems. Missing punches. Rounding errors. Mismatched pay codes. None of it is intentional. All of it adds up.
This calculator shows you what inaccurate time records actually cost — on both sides. Adjust the inputs below to see the numbers. No email required to see your results.
Your Team
Sources of Inaccuracy
Adjust each slider based on your operation. Defaults are industry averages.
Your Results
Annual cost of inaccurate time records
Where the costs come from
What Your Workers Lose
When records are wrong, workers pay too. Based on your inputs, an average worker in your operation loses an estimated $146 per year in unrecorded or inaccurately recorded time. That's hours they worked but weren't paid for — not because anyone stole from them, but because the process didn't capture their time accurately.
At your current error rate, roughly 0.3 out of every 26 paychecks contains an inaccuracy. Research shows that 49% of employees consider leaving after just two payroll mistakes.
Estimated annual turnover cost from payroll dissatisfaction: $2,293
What Accurate Time Tracking Saves
With verified, automated time tracking and direct payroll integration:
Per employee, that's $595 per year — split between what the company saves and what workers keep.
See how your whole system stacks up
The Fair Pay Calculator shows the cost of broken processes. The Gap Assessment shows where your entire time-and-pay chain needs work — across punch accuracy, payroll accuracy, scheduling fairness, and more.
The breakdown you won't see anywhere else
Most vendors show you one number: “buddy punching costs $X per employee.” They frame 100% of the cost as dishonest workers.
The data tells a different story. The largest source of inaccurate time records is broken processes — manual re-entry, paper timesheets, and system errors. The second-largest is payroll handoff mistakes — transposition, code mismatches, and rounding. Unverified punches (including bad actors on both sides) are the smallest category.
The system is the problem. Not the people in it. Fixing the process fixes the cost — without treating your workforce like suspects.