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About you
Sets starting role counts, sites and tool prices below. Change any of them.
Sets the symbol and converts the starting points. Hourly costs, incident costs and list prices are converted at an indicative rate (29 Sep 2026) unless you type your own.
Used to describe you on the summary. It does not change the numbers.
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.
Hours: SafetyCulture, Feedback from the Field 2025: managers lose more than 5 hours a week to low-value admin (vendor survey).
Hours: Teammate assumption; replace with yours.
Hours: Teammate assumption (forms, pre-starts, sign-ins, toolbox talks); replace with yours.
Hourly costs (NZD): Derived from PayScale and SalaryExpert NZ salaries and Stats NZ median hourly earnings (June 2026), with about 1.2× on-costs.
Audit preparation and your setup hours are costed at the first role's hourly cost ($65).
External audits, customer prequalification and insurer questionnaires.
Teammate assumption; ISO-certified organisations commonly report far more.
Software and paper
Software you could retire
Only rows with an amount count, and every amount is yours to change.
Add anything Teammate would replace — an inspection app, a form builder, a visitor sign-in, a training tracker, printing.
Suggested amounts come from published list prices converted to NZD at an indicative rate (29 Sep 2026).
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Incidents
Leave this off unless you have your own view on how many incidents better records would prevent.
Optional
Incidents
Leave this off unless you have your own view on how many incidents better records would prevent.
Recordable incidents across your organisation.
ACC average cost per claim, 2025 (all claims, direct cost only).
A 3–5× indirect-to-direct ratio is commonly cited but is not an official figure.
Your estimate. Vendors report 15–30%; no independent study exists, so nothing is assumed until you type a number.
The other side of the ledger
Teammate cost
A saving only counts after what you would pay us. Use the published price, or your quote.
Annual billing is 11 months for the price of 12: one month free.
Teammate assumption for a small rollout; Business plans include guided onboarding. Costed at the first role's hourly cost.
Only if your quote includes an implementation fee.
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Show your working
What each line costs you today, what it would cost with Teammate, and the difference. Formulas are shown under each line.
| Line | Today | With Teammate | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff time | |||
| Managers and coordinators responsible for H&S, quality or compliance 1 × 5 h/wk × 46 wks × 25% × $65/h = 58 h back | $14,950 | $11,213 | +$3,738 |
| Supervisors and team leaders 3 × 2 h/wk × 46 wks × 25% × $55/h = 69 h back | $15,180 | $11,385 | +$3,795 |
| Frontline staff (forms, pre-starts, sign-ins, toolbox talks) 26 × 0.5 h/wk × 46 wks × 25% × $40/h = 150 h back | $23,920 | $17,940 | +$5,980 |
| 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 | — |
| 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.
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 pointTeammate 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 assumptionTeammate 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 assumptionSet below published digitisation claims of 30–60% (SafetyCulture; a 2025 construction QA study on Zenodo confirms the direction only)
Scenario52 less annual leave and public holidays
FixedTeammate assumption; ISO-certified organisations commonly report far more
Industry starting pointTeam (Starter), 1–10 employees — NZ$330 a month, published on teammateapp.com/pricing/nz
Teammate assumption for a small rollout; Business plans include guided onboarding
Industry starting point