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On-Call Cost Calculator
Calculate total on-call spend and assess engineer burnout risk from incident volume.
On-Call Setup
4
8
1.5 hrs
90
500
On-Call Cost & Burnout Risk
Burnout Risk: Medium(2.0 incidents/eng/mo)
$2,000
Monthly stipend cost
$1,620
Monthly incident labor
$3,620
Total monthly on-call cost
$43,440
Annual on-call cost
Labor cost includes 1.5× overtime. Industry benchmark: <1 incident/engineer/month for sustainable on-call.
Tip: Incident.io and PagerDuty reduce alert fatigue with smart routing and auto-escalation, cutting incidents per engineer by 40–60%.
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