The hidden cost of re-teaching the basics
Estimate the senior time going into repeated junior support
Use your own team size, support pattern and charge-out rate to estimate the senior time spent correcting, explaining and reviewing repeatable foundations across a year.
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Set your two numbers
Everything below recalculates from these. Nothing is sent anywhere.
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Sense-check the support pattern
For each task, adjust the minutes a senior spends per occurrence and how often it happens in a typical week.
Emails
Reviewing outgoing, rewriting tone, explaining what should be said
Hours a week
0.8
Across all juniors
£225
Meeting minutes and admin output
Reviewing minutes, explaining what good looks like, sending back for correction
Hours a week
0.5
Across all juniors
£135
Drawing and design understanding
Explaining drawings, reviewing mark-ups, correcting misunderstandings
Hours a week
0.1
Across all juniors
£34
Progress inspections and site reporting
What to look for, what matters and what does not, structuring site reports
Hours a week
0.2
Across all juniors
£45
Valuations, JCT and site-based
What to include, reviewing drafts, correcting errors, re-review after revision
Hours a week
0.1
Across all juniors
£34
General behaviour and guidance
How to act on site, what to say in meetings, when to ask and when to decide
Hours a week
0.3
Across all juniors
£90
Ad-hoc support, interruptions and reactive questions
The constant background drip of quick questions
Hours a week
0.4
Across all juniors
£113
Weekly totals
2.5 hrs
per junior
£225
per junior
£675
across the cohort
Your estimated annual cost of re-teaching the basics
£10,350
in senior time, per junior, per year
Based on 46 working weeks, which accounts for leave and bank holidays.
Across your full cohort
£31,050
Illustrative: 7.5 hours of senior support each week at your blended rate, time that could be spent on delivery and judgement.
With The Surveying Academy in place
What a modest reduction could be worth
The Academy will not remove supervision, and it should not. The question is whether a consistent baseline can reduce repeated explanation. Adjust the figure below to test that assumption against your own team.
Hours saved per week, per junior
0.5
Conservative estimate. Adjust to sense-check.
Estimated value per week, per junior
£45
At your blended charge-out rate.
Estimated annual value per junior
£2,070
Over 46 working weeks.
Estimated annual value across cohort
£6,210
Across 3 learners, over 46 working weeks.
The Surveying Academy
The licence cost against the estimated value
Annual licence
£2,700
Excludes VAT at 20%. £900 per seat.
Estimated value less licence
£3,510
Estimated value minus licence cost.
Estimated value to licence cost
2.3×
Estimated value divided by licence cost.
Figures are indicative only and based on internal estimates of typical support time. They are not a guarantee of savings. Purchases are subject to the terms and conditions.