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Cost per contact calculator

What does one contact cost you?

The simplest operational metric there is, and the one most often quoted without a definition behind it. Split labour from everything else and the number becomes something you can act on.

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Your numbers

Salaries, on-costs, overtime.

Technology, telephony, premises, management.

The formula

How this is calculated.

  1. 1Cost per contact = total cost ÷ contacts handled

Before you trust it

What this model assumes.

  • Only comparable against your own history if the cost base stays defined the same way. Most published comparisons fail that test.

This runs entirely in your browser — nothing you type is sent to us. It is arithmetic on your own figures, not a benchmark or a recommendation.

In the platform

Where WFMPro does this for you.

These tools answer one question at a time, from numbers you type in. WFMPro runs the same maths continuously against your live data.

See Reporting & analytics in WFMPro

Run this on your own data with us.

A working session on your forecasts, schedules and shrinkage — and where WFMPro would take it from there.