Payroll Waste Calculator
For premium DTC brands

How much of your operational payroll could shift to part-time?

90 seconds. Four inputs. See the number no one's calculated for you. Your data never leaves this page unless you ask us to send you a copy.

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Step 1 of 3 — Your team

Tell us about your operations team.

Operational roles usually include order processing, fulfillment, customer service, inventory, and bookkeeping — the deterministic work that's most automatable.

Everyone on payroll — founders, product, marketing, ops, everyone.

Enter a number between 1 and 500.

People whose primary work is running the operational machinery, not creating product or driving demand.

Ops team can't be bigger than total team.

Where you pay salaries.

Salary + benefits + payroll tax. Ballpark is fine.

Enter a number between 20,000 and 300,000.
Step 2 of 3 — Your stack

Which tools are running your operations?

Check every SaaS you currently pay for. The stack tells us where automation replaces headcount vs where headcount replaces automation.

E-commerce platform
Marketing & email
Customer service
Inventory & fulfillment
Analytics & attribution
Accounting & subscriptions
Reviews, loyalty & SMS
Your result
Estimated annual payroll waste
$0
/ year in operational payroll shiftable to part-time or automation
Operational payroll (annual)
$0
based on 0 people × avg salary
Automatable share
0%
deterministic ops work in DTC brands your size
Payroll shiftable to part-time
$0
without a single layoff
Estimated SaaS stack cost
$0
0 tools selected
What this means
With 6 operational people at your salary point, roughly 40% of their daily work is deterministic — order processing, reconciliation, reporting, inventory checks. Deterministic means codeable. Codeable means your team could shift to part-time without losing anyone, freeing $156,000/year back into margin.
Rough benchmark based on DTC brands 5–50 employees. Real number depends on which specific roles and workflows — that's what a proper audit maps.
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