Email Cleaners, Inc.

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Direct Costs
Company Size Enter the number of employees.
Operational Resources¹ Enter number of employees supporting email protection.
Other Direct Costs (Annually) (e.g. messaging bandwidth and storage costs associated with email protection).
Hardware and Software for Email Protection Calculated at $10 per employee per year.
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Productivity Costs
Average Number of Email Messages Per User Per Day Enter number of email messages per day.
Percentage of Email that is Spam On average, 65-85% of company messages are spam.
Average Hourly Wage of Employees² Enter hourly wage of employees.
Spam Emails Per Day
Hours Spent Handling Spam (Annually) Approximately 5 seconds per spam message
Other Productivity Costs³(Annually) (e.g. for virus outbreaks leading to data loss, email communication interruptions, and help desk support time to deal with spam and viruses).

Total - Productivity Costs
Your Total Annual costs (Direct + Productivity)⁴


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1 Calculated at an average 25% time allocation for an $80,000 IT resource (burdened cost).
2 $20 per hour average wage for standard employee is about $42,000 per year.
3 ICSA Labs says the average virus outbreaks cost corporations $10,000 per incident.
4 Other indirect costs can arise from breaches of confidentiality, legal liabilit and harm to a company's reputation/litigation.