SOP development cost calculator

This costs the development of a set of standard operating procedures and the training that follows. Enter the SOPs to develop, the drafting and review hours per SOP, the approvers and the minutes each approval takes, the loaded hourly rate of the people involved, the people to train per SOP and the training minutes each, and the SOPs your team can finish a week, and the page returns the hours and cost to develop the set, the training hours and cost across everyone, the total and the calendar weeks at your pace. SOP development is a project with a budget; this is the budget, from your own figures.

Drafting, review and approval are three different hours

Four hours drafting, an hour and a half of review and two approvals at twenty minutes each is a little over six hours per SOP, and twelve SOPs is a week and a half of somebody's time. The page adds the three because the approval minutes are the ones always left out of the estimate and the ones that stall the project when the approver is busy.

Training is usually the larger number

Five people at twenty-five minutes per SOP, across twelve SOPs, is twenty-five hours of the business reading procedures, which is more than the drafting. The page prints the training hours and cost beside the development figures so the whole investment is visible, and so a procedure that is too long to train against is shortened before it is finished.

Calendar weeks at your pace, not at the plan's

A team that can finish two SOPs a week alongside its real work finishes twelve in six weeks, whatever the plan says. The page divides the set by your honest weekly pace so the finish date is a figure, and so a set of fifty SOPs is recognised as a six-month project before it is promised as a six-week one.