Step One: Provide general information about your business
Number of employees with email
Work days per year per employee
Average Annual Salary per employee
Step Two: Assumptions about your business messaging environment
Average number of spam emails per day per employee	1 2 3 5 10 25 50 100
Seconds wasted with each spam email	5 10 20 30 60

	Total Business Cost of Spam		Cost of Spam for Each Employee
Overall Costs	Yearly:		Yearly:
	Daily:		Daily:
Lost Productivity	Yearly:		Yearly:
ROI
Please note that this calculation is only an estimate. Your actual ROI payback period may vary due to specific business assumptions not defined, such as wasted disk space, bandwidth and IT staff resources used dealing with spam issues.