Set your own minutes, rate, and job value below. Nothing is submitted anywhere — every figure recalculates as you move a slider.
A person on the phone, loaded hourly, times the hours you need covered.
At $20 an hour and 30 hours a week, staffing the line is about $2,600 a month ($31,200 a year).
Typical answering services bill $1 to $3 a minute. Set weekly minutes and the rate.
At 40 minutes a week and $1.50 a minute, a live answering service is about $260 a month ($3,120 a year). Starter is $49 a month plus usage at cost.
Voicemail loses some of the callers who would have booked. Move the assumptions.
At 8 missed calls a week, 25% who would have booked, and $180 a job, that is about $1,560 a month ($18,720 a year).
Estimate only. An answering service bills by the minute; Terri is a flat monthly price plus usage at provider cost against the included credit. Actual recovered revenue depends on call volume, lead quality, and whether you have room to take the work.
Run these numbers with your own minutes, rate, and job value.
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Self-serve takes minutes. Call centers get a designed agent — no long contract to start the brief.