FilterPoint: Spam Cost Calculator

Spam Cost Calculator: How much does it really cost your company to handle spam?

The cost of spam clogging enterprise email systems continues to grow. We all know time is money, and our Spam Cost calculator can give you an idea of how much spam costs for your entire company. According to Ferris Research, spam is expected to cost American corporations about $168 per employee for 2004.

Fill in the fields below to estimate how much spam is costing you. The initial values are provided as a guide based on our experience.

Basic Information
Number of employees who have email:
Average annual salary per employee:$
Average number of total emails per day per employee:
Percentage of emails which are spam:		%
Average number of seconds it takes an employee to open, glance at, then delete each SPAM email - wasted time:



What SPAM Costs You
	Enterprise cost of spam	Cost of spam per employee
Yearly Wasted Time:
Daily Lost Salary:
Monthly Lost Salary:
Monthly FilterPoint Fee:

Net Monthly Savings:
How soon will FilterPoint pay for itself?

In addition to the incredible amount of wasted time, there are other costs involved:

When a user deletes a spam email, it goes into their trash folder for a period of time, thus consuming storage space on your server's hard disks and backup tapes.
The expense of larger servers to handle the increased load of email.
The increased network bandwidth necessary to receive the unwanted email.
The time your IT staff spends implementing your current anti-spam measures.
The cost of cleaning up after a virus attack.