What’s the minimum your timesheets could really be costing you?

Here’s a clue: even just 7 minutes a day of inaccurate or “generously remembered” time can add up, fast. Especially when it happens every day, for every employee.

Let’s break it down.

Seven minutes might not sound like much. But over a standard work year, that’s around 30 hours of paid time that may not have actually been worked.

At the minimum wage, that’s $718 per employee, per year.

And that’s just the floor. If your team earns more than minimum wage (as many do), or if the average time lost each day is closer to 10 minutes, the number climbs even higher. Double it, even.

Now imagine you’ve got 10 staff. That’s $7,180 a year, quietly leaking from your payroll due to honest mistakes, rounded start times, or a few late arrivals no one remembers clearly by the end of the week.

We call this TimeCreep. It’s the small, consistent inaccuracies that add up to big costs over time. And if you’re still relying on manual timesheets, there’s a good chance it’s already happening in your business.

So what’s the fix?

Start by asking:

• Are your team recording time in real-time, or from memory?

• Are start and finish times being tracked accurately, or estimated?

• Could a digital solution make this easier and more accurate?

If you’re curious what a more accurate, automated approach could save you, we’d be happy to show you.

Because while $718 a year might sound like a small number, multiply it across your team, and across the years, and the real cost of manual timesheets starts to become very clear.

Time to plug the leak? Let’s chat.