Hours lost
580
The PowerPoint Tax
If your team rebuilds the same charts and pages every month, this is what that work costs.
Hours lost
580
Cost lost
$43,500
Work weeks
14.5
Smart defaults
We loaded a typical market research professional setup: 4 decks a month, 15 slides per deck, 12 hours per deck, $75 per hour.
What changes the number
At this workload, your team is building 720 slides a year. The number rises fast once decks become routine.
Your numbers
Use your real numbers. The total updates as you type.
Your PowerPoint tax
What it costs now
580
Hours
$43,500
Dollars
14.5
Weeks
Most of that time is charting, formatting, and version cleanup. That is the part Basquio cuts.
What you get back
406
Hours
$30,450
Dollars
10.1
Weeks
What people say
55% of professionals say making slides is not a good use of their time.
24slides survey, about 1,000 marketing professionalsIndustry average
The average knowledge worker spends 4.87 hours per week on presentation design.
24slides industry benchmarkWhat we see
In the decks we study, most of the time goes to charting, formatting, and version cleanup.
Basquio analysis of 40+ internal deck buildsFAQ
If the number feels high, lower the inputs. The point is to make the time visible, not to force a scary answer.
The calculator takes decks per month, multiplies by 12, then by hours per deck. That gives annual hours. It then turns those hours into dollars using your hourly rate. The Basquio estimate assumes about 70% of deck time is the work of getting the deck built.
Any recurring presentation built from data counts: category reviews, QBRs, client reports, board decks, competitive updates, or internal readouts.
Yes. Once you include pulling the numbers, building charts, formatting slides, and fixing review comments, 12 hours is a conservative number for a 15-slide deck.
Basquio reads the files, builds the charts, drafts the pages, and gives your team a first deck to review and edit.