10/22/2026
The wage cost of downtime is the easy number. It is also the smallest one.
$1,125 an hour for a 25-person business covers only the staff who cannot work. It does not count the orders that went elsewhere, the calls nobody answered, or the rest of the day spent catching up on the hour you lost.
Which is why the question worth asking is not whether you have backups. It is how long it would take to be working again, and who has actually tested that.
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