Blended Admin Rate

A blended admin rate is the average hourly cost of admin and operations staff, used to estimate the labor cost of manual workarounds.

Operators use a blended rate instead of a single employee's wage because workaround tasks are typically spread across multiple team members at different pay levels. Averaging those rates gives a more realistic labor cost than pricing everything at one person's hourly wage.

Related: Use this rate as an input in the Total Cost of Fragmentation Calculator to convert workaround hours into a dollar figure.