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ROI CALCULATOR

What is Surface worth to your organization?

Put real dollars on the vendor spend you could displace, the consulting you could stop buying, and the work your team could hand off. Then download a business case your CFO can check.

Cost and hour assumptions are based on Paradigm's consulting experience. However, you may customize them based on your organization's internal data.

Calculate hourly rate

Enter the average annual salary of the people on your team who do talent work (HRBPs, employee engagement, people analytics, etc.).

Average annual salary

$100,000 × 1.33 fully loaded ÷ 2,080 hrs = $64/hr internal team · consultants $500/hr

Software spend you could consolidate

Tick the tools you use or plan to buy that Surface could consolidate.

$30,000 /yr

$40,000 /yr

$25,000 /yr

$30,000 /yr

Work you do in house or pay a consultant for

For each use case, who does the work today?

Draft a parental leave policy update aligned to peer benchmarks

~60 hrs one-time

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Review PTO and sick leave policies

~80 hrs one-time

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Audit your benefits package

~90 hrs annually

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Draft a flexible work / return-to-office policy

~70 hrs one-time

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Draft a pay transparency policy and internal comms

~60 hrs one-time

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Board-ready narrative connecting culture drivers to business outcomes

~29 hrs twice a year · 58 hrs a year

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Quarterly executive readout: culture insights, key risks, top 3 priorities

~21 hrs quarterly · 84 hrs a year

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CEO/CHRO memo announcing a new initiative with rationale and next steps

~5 hrs per memo

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Complete comms toolkit for a policy change (email, FAQ, talking points, Slack post)

~12 hrs quarterly · 48 hrs a year

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Manager toolkit for rolling out a new initiative (talk track, scenarios, objections)

~12 hrs quarterly · 48 hrs a year

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Org design recommendation for a restructure, including spans, layers and role changes

~70 hrs one-time

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Analyze attrition and time-to-hire to sequence role openings for the next two quarters

~15 hrs twice a year · 30 hrs a year

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Headcount plan aligned to budget constraints, with tradeoffs and scenarios

~20 hrs twice a year · 40 hrs a year

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Identify teams at risk of burnout or performance decline and recommend interventions

~20 hrs twice a year · 40 hrs a year

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Critical-roles plan: which roles to protect, hire for or backfill based on attrition risk

~10 hrs twice a year · 20 hrs a year

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Talent budget proposal: where to invest, what to protect and cut, with peer benchmarks

~30 hrs one-time

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Structured interview guides for priority roles, with competencies, rubrics and interviewer notes

~24 hrs per role

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Evaluate onboarding, benchmark against peers and design a more structured program

~30 hrs one-time

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Design, run and analyze an employee survey program (design, administration, analysis, readout)

~120 hrs annually

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Benchmark your culture maturity against peers and set the next 90-day priorities

~30 hrs annually

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Quarterly Culture and Talent Business Review synthesizing trends, benchmarks and actions

~21 hrs quarterly · 84 hrs a year

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Identify the manager behaviors most correlated with engagement and performance, recommend an enablement plan

~15 hrs annually

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Design a manager training program focused on the highest-impact gaps, with curriculum and measurement

~25 hrs annually

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Draft microlearning content and nudges that reinforce desired behaviors in the flow of work

~10 hrs per module

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Measure a learning program's impact on engagement, retention and performance

~20 hrs twice a year · 40 hrs a year

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Design strategies that strengthen inclusive manager and team behaviors, with measurement

~25 hrs annually

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30/60/90-day post-merger culture integration plan with risks, priorities, executive comms and leadership talking points

~80 hrs one-time

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Review two companies' handbooks during an acquisition and propose an integrated policy set

~22 hrs one-time

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Join people leaders using Surface to move from data to decisions — faster, and with confidence.

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