ROI Calculator

What is permitting costing your department?

Estimate how much staff capacity, time, and operational value you could recover by automating the work that happens before a permit reaches final review.

How many building permits do you process each year?

Include the permits that typically require staff plan review.

How much staff time does a typical permit review take?

minutes

What is the approximate hourly cost of the staff performing review?

Include salary, benefits, and overhead if available.

$/hr

What percentage of applications require corrections or re-review?

How much staff time does a typical re-review take?

minutes

What is your current average permit turnaround time?

days

What improvement should we model?30%

We're modeling a 30% reduction in manual review workload. Adjust this to see how the economics change.

Live estimate

Total staff review workload

3,938 hrs

initial + re-review, per year

Current annual review labor

$217K

what review currently costs

Capacity recovered

1,181 hrs

at 30% modeled efficiency

≈ 0.6 FTE of annual staff capacity

≈ 945 typical reviews/year

Estimated ROI

2.2×

Estimated payback

~6 mo

Takes about a minute. Estimates only — no data is stored.

What is permitting costing your department?

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