Pricing & ROI

See what an hour of your time is actually worth.

Put in your own numbers. We fill the blanks with public benchmarks you can change. The result isn't our claim about some other business. It's the math on yours.

What's an hour of your time worth?

Not sure? A simple anchor: the income you want this year ÷ 2,000 working hours. A $300K target is about $150 an hour. Type the number you believe.

$25$750+
How many hours a week would you hand off? 20hrs/wk

Email, scheduling, inbox, data entry, follow-up, reporting, the work that fills your day but doesn't need you.

540
Right now, that work is handled by…

This sets what we measure your savings against. Pick the one that's true for you today.

Scale & discounts
Roles you'd delegate
1
Based on 20 hrs/week, that's a Part-Time Distant Assistant, $1,473.50/mo.

Your return

6.3×
Every $1 you put into a Distant Assistant comes back to you.
$1 invested → $6.26 of your time and money back.
$126,036
saved in your first year
1,000
hours handed back to you this year
Your time
$150/hr
vs
A Distant Assistant
~$24/hr

Keep the role in place and the gap compounds, about $630,180 over five years.

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Every figure here is either yours or a public benchmark you can change. We use 50 working weeks (not 52), the BLS average wage, and a conservative 1.3× cost load. If a number feels off for your situation, change it, the result is only ever as true as what you put in.

How we calculated this

Here's the exact arithmetic, with the numbers you entered plugged in. No black box.

Don't agree with a benchmark? Move it.

A US hire costs more than salary. MIT's formula puts the real cost at 1.25–1.4× base pay.2

What you'd pay a managed or offshore VA per hour. Set it to what you actually pay.

We default to 50 to stay conservative (most years have ~52).

BLS average annual wage for executive assistants.1

  1. Executive assistant wage, $73,680/yr (avg). US Bureau of Labor Statistics, via Coursera's salary guide. Entry roles run ~$51K; senior roles top $104K.
  2. Fully-loaded cost, 1.25 to 1.4× salary. Joe Hadzima, MIT, via Beebole. The BLS puts benefits alone at ~30% of total compensation. We default to a conservative 1.3×.
  3. Recruiting, ~$4,700 per hire. Vena Solutions, citing SHRM. A one-time cost a US hire carries and a Distant Assistant doesn't.
  4. Distant Assistant pricing, $1,473.50 / $2,947 per month. Bottleneck's own pricing page. Compensation, training, equipment, and backing are all included, there is no separate benefits, payroll-tax, or recruiting cost.
  5. Time reclaimed, 20 to 30 hours a week. Client Anthony Woolever, on Bottleneck's testimonials page. The construction-firm case study shows more than $200K saved a year across four roles.

It's not theoretical

The math holds up in the field.

One mid-sized construction firm deployed three executive assistants and a bookkeeper through Bottleneck, more than $200,000 in annual savings, and it compounds every year the Delegation Department stays in place.

Read the construction case study →

"This saved somewhere between 20 to 30 hours of my week, and it's been a game-changer for me ever since."

Anthony Woolever, Logistics & Operations Leader  ·  Read all client testimonials →

Your move

You just saw the number. Now go get it.

The calculator shows the size of the gap. A consultation shows you exactly which roles to delegate first, who your Distant Assistant should be, and how fast the math starts working for you.

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