SOP development cost calculator
- Hours to develop the set
- 74
- Computed on this page from the inputs below
- Development cost
- $4,440
- Computed on this page from the inputs below
- Training hours across everyone
- 25
- Computed on this page from the inputs below
- Training cost at the same rate
- $1,500
- Computed on this page from the inputs below
Every figure on this page is computed from the inputs you enter, by the method stated below it. RunbookDesk supplies no constant from outside; the defaults are a worked example to replace with your own.
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Download the SOP development cost calculator worked example (CSV)
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 recognized as a six-month project before it is promised as a six-week one.
SOP development cost calculator: common questions
Is this a free SOP development cost calculator?
Yes: the development hours and cost, the training hours and cost, the total and the weeks are computed here for free with no account, and you can print the plan. RunbookDesk Pro saves the plan against the project, tracks each SOP through draft, review and approval, and holds the training sign-offs.
How long does it take to develop an SOP?
The worked example uses four drafting hours, an hour and a half of review and two twenty-minute approvals, which are starting points to replace with your own. A simple procedure takes less; one that crosses departments takes more, mostly in the review and approval time.
Should I develop all the SOPs at once?
No. Cost the set here, then order the SOPs by how often they run and how much goes wrong without them, and finish two a week. The page's weeks figure is the honest schedule for that order.