Free tool

SAR workload calculator

How much staff time do information requests take your organisation each year? Put in your own figures. Useful for a business case, a budget bid or a board paper. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

Include logging, searching, reviewing, redacting and writing the response, across everyone involved.
Salary plus on-costs, divided by hours worked. Leave blank to skip cost.
Staff hours a year
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Working days a year
-At 7.5 hours a day.
Full-time equivalent
-At 1,650 working hours a year: 37.5 hours a week for 44 weeks, after leave and bank holidays.

Using the result

The starting figures are placeholders, not benchmarks. Replace them with your own: count last year's requests from your register, and time the next few you handle from start to finish, including everyone who touches them.

Then try the same request with us. In a parallel run you pick one live request and run it through your current process and ours, and compare the hours, the records found and the redactions caught, with your own numbers.

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