ROI Calculator

Your spreadsheet doesn't show you what it's costing you.

Every comp cycle run in Excel has a real price in labor, errors, and risk. Most teams never calculate it. Use the tool below to see yours.

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90%
reduction in admin time on first cycle
Klaviyo
2x faster
cycle completed in half the time
IFS
97%
positive manager feedback (600+ responses)
IFS
92%
reviewer satisfaction on first cycle
IFS
ROI Calculator
What is your comp cycle actually costing you?

Fill in your numbers. Every field updates the results in real time.

Comp Team
people
Include setup, data wrangling, review rounds, and corrections
hrs
$
Manager Reviewers
people
hrs
$
Cycle and Risk
cycles
Used to estimate turnover risk exposure
$
Estimated Time Reduction 90%
Conservative (50%) Aggressive (95%)
Klaviyo
Compared to last year in spreadsheets, the admin load was probably a tenth of what it was.
Katie Linger, Compensation Manager
IFS
We brought the whole process down to a month and it had taken nearly double that originally. What would have taken me a day to produce for the final sign off took me about half an hour.
Sally Knill, Global Head of Reward
Cycle time
2 months to 1 month
Reporting
1 day to 30 minutes
Annual Cost Spreadsheets With Aeqium
Comp team labor
2 people x 120 hrs x 2 cycles
Manager and approver time
40 managers x 6 hrs x 2 cycles
Error and rework
88% of spreadsheet cycles contain errors (EuSpRIG)
$0
Total
Annual savings with Aeqium
Turnover Risk Exposure
The cost of replacing one employee who leaves because of a compensation mistake, at 1.5x annual salary. Not included in the savings figure above.
per incident
The Cost of Waiting
Every month you delay
in savings left on the table
One more cycle in spreadsheets
in avoidable cost

Labor costs calculated at blended hourly rate (annual salary divided by 2,080 hrs). Spreadsheet error rate from EuSpRIG research. Replacement cost benchmark from SHRM (1.5x salary). Customer results from Klaviyo and IFS. For estimation purposes only.

Customer Results
What teams say after their first cycle.

These are not projections. They are what customers told us directly after running their first compensation cycle on Aeqium.

Klaviyo
Compared to last year in spreadsheets, the admin load was probably a tenth of what it was.
Katie Linger, Compensation Manager
90%
reduction in admin time, first cycle
78%
reviewer satisfaction score
1,300+
comments captured that would have been lost in spreadsheets
IFS
We brought the whole process down to a month and it had taken nearly double that originally. What would have taken me a day to produce for the final sign off took me about half an hour.
Sally Knill, Global Head of Reward
2x
faster cycle completion
97%
positive manager feedback
92%
reviewer satisfaction (333 responses)
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