Your people, your hours, your numbers. Every starting figure is sourced, cautious, and yours to change.
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30employees
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Starting point
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Starting point
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Starting point
Used to prefill per-site tools such as visitor sign-in.
Staff time
Where time goes today
Admin time is usually the biggest cost. We ask who does it, how long it takes and what an hour of their time costs.
Each row shows Starting point until you change it, then Your figure.
Starting point
$
Hours: SafetyCulture, Feedback from the Field 2025: managers lose more than 5 hours a week to low-value admin (vendor survey).
Audit, prequalification and questionnaire preparation
40 h/yr × 30% × $65/h = 12 h back
$2,600
$1,820
+$780
Teammate
Subscription
Quote required for 30 employees. Break-even: $1,063 a month.
$0
Quote required
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One-off setup (year one)
40 h × $65/h
$0
$2,600
−$2,600
Year one, before the subscription
$56,650
$44,958
+$11,693
Assumptions
Figures tagged Your figure are yours. Everything else is a sourced starting point you can change above.
Managers and coordinators responsible for H&S, quality or compliance — 1 people, hours a week, hourly cost1 · 5 h · $65
SafetyCulture, Feedback from the Field 2025: managers lose more than 5 hours a week to low-value admin (vendor survey). Derived from PayScale and SalaryExpert NZ salaries and Stats NZ median hourly earnings (June 2026), with about 1.2× on-costs
Industry starting point
Supervisors and team leaders — 3 people, hours a week, hourly cost3 · 2 h · $55
Teammate assumption; replace with yours. Derived from PayScale and SalaryExpert NZ salaries and Stats NZ median hourly earnings (June 2026), with about 1.2× on-costs
Teammate assumption
Frontline staff (forms, pre-starts, sign-ins, toolbox talks) — 26 people, hours a week, hourly cost26 · 0.5 h · $40
Teammate assumption (forms, pre-starts, sign-ins, toolbox talks); replace with yours. Derived from PayScale and SalaryExpert NZ salaries and Stats NZ median hourly earnings (June 2026), with about 1.2× on-costs
Teammate assumption
Share of that time removed25% (Cautious)
Set below published digitisation claims of 30–60% (SafetyCulture; a 2025 construction QA study on Zenodo confirms the direction only)
Scenario
Working weeks a year46
52 less annual leave and public holidays
Fixed
Audit and prequalification preparation40 h a year, 30% removed
Teammate assumption; ISO-certified organisations commonly report far more
Industry starting point
Teammate subscriptionQuote required
Team (Starter), 1–10 employees — NZ$330 a month, published on teammateapp.com/pricing/nz
One-off setup40 h of our time
Teammate assumption for a small rollout; Business plans include guided onboarding
Industry starting point
Teammate App · Savings summary
Your organisation
1 October 2026 · New Zealand Dollar, NZD
$14,293 a year
288 hours of staff time back — on the cautious scenario.
Teammate quotes brackets above 10 employees. On these figures it pays for itself at any subscription under $1,063 a month.
Your organisation — construction, 30 people, 2 sites. Records currently kept across paper, spreadsheets.
Staff time returned (288 hours a year)$14,293
Annual saving$14,293
One-off setup (40 h of our time)−$2,600
Break-even subscription (year one neutral)$1,063 a month
Teammate subscriptionQuote required for 30 employees
Assumptions and sources
Assumption
Value
Source
Tag
Managers and coordinators responsible for H&S, quality or compliance — 1 people, hours a week, hourly cost
1 · 5 h · $65
SafetyCulture, Feedback from the Field 2025: managers lose more than 5 hours a week to low-value admin (vendor survey). Derived from PayScale and SalaryExpert NZ salaries and Stats NZ median hourly earnings (June 2026), with about 1.2× on-costs
Industry starting point
Supervisors and team leaders — 3 people, hours a week, hourly cost
3 · 2 h · $55
Teammate assumption; replace with yours. Derived from PayScale and SalaryExpert NZ salaries and Stats NZ median hourly earnings (June 2026), with about 1.2× on-costs
Teammate assumption (forms, pre-starts, sign-ins, toolbox talks); replace with yours. Derived from PayScale and SalaryExpert NZ salaries and Stats NZ median hourly earnings (June 2026), with about 1.2× on-costs
Teammate assumption
Share of that time removed
25% (Cautious)
Set below published digitisation claims of 30–60% (SafetyCulture; a 2025 construction QA study on Zenodo confirms the direction only)
Scenario
Working weeks a year
46
52 less annual leave and public holidays
Fixed
Audit and prequalification preparation
40 h a year, 30% removed
Teammate assumption; ISO-certified organisations commonly report far more
Industry starting point
Teammate subscription
Quote required
Team (Starter), 1–10 employees — NZ$330 a month, published on teammateapp.com/pricing/nz
—
One-off setup
40 h of our time
Teammate assumption for a small rollout; Business plans include guided onboarding
Industry starting point
Prepared with the Teammate savings calculator — teammateapp.com/savings-calculator. Figures tagged Your figure are the organisation's own; starting points are sourced and cautious.
Your annual saving
$14,293
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Thirty minutes, your sites and your forms — and a number you can take to whoever signs it off.
