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Incident Response Cost Calculator
Estimate the full cost of a production incident — labor, revenue loss, and annual exposure.
Incident Parameters
3
85
2 hrs
50,000
12
Cost Per Incident
$765
Engineer labor (1.5× overtime)
$139
Revenue loss
$904
Total per incident
$10,847
Annual incident cost
Revenue loss = MRR ÷ 720 hours × resolution time. Labor includes 1.5× overtime rate.
Tip: Incident management tools like PagerDuty and Incident.io can cut MTTR by 40–60%, saving $5,423 per year.
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