For firms

What a music-literate team returns

Put in your own figures: team size, salaries, what a senior hour costs you. The calculator itemises where the value comes from, so you can check every line rather than take a headline on trust. Deliberately modest assumptions, all adjustable.

The return on your firm plan, driven entirely by your figures and a small set of documented assumptions. Every dial is visible; wind each one down to your own. Illustrative, not a guarantee of savings.

People on your team

The people you want music-literate in their day-to-day work.

Junior salary (£/yr)

Gross annual salary, before on-costs.

Senior cost (£/hour)

A senior's fully-loaded hourly cost, not a charge-out rate.

Attribution to this programme80%

How much of the value is incremental to this programme vs the training you already do. Set high by default, since a buying firm has none; dial it to your own judgement.

Recurring levers (adjustable)The whole-team levers: fewer mistakes, faster work, less senior correction. On at modest figures; switch off or wind down to your own.

Errors avoided / staff / year

Costly mistakes a trained junior avoids each year.

Avg cost per error (£)

A correction, rework, or write-off the firm no longer eats.

Also include faster work & less senior correction across the year.

Hours saved / staff / year

Own work that goes faster, valued at their loaded cost.

Senior hours saved / staff / year

Review and correction time a senior no longer spends.

Also include the (softest) client-service uplift

Net annual value£15,648£18,648 value − £3,000 cost

Return multiple6.2×value ÷ plan cost (year 1)

Payback per hire≈ 7 weekstime to repay the plan, per person

Priced on the Micro firm plan (£3,000/yr flat, billed annually).

Where the value comes from

One-off value banks once per hire at onboarding; recurring value accrues every year a trained person stays.

One-offMentoring time savedSenior hours freed during the 13-week programme.£0
One-offFaster ramp to productivityLoaded junior cost reclaimed as ramp is brought forward.£0
RecurringMistakes avoidedFewer costly corrections, rework, and write-offs.£16,000
RecurringFaster workHours saved when the team knows the mechanics, beyond the basics.£1,688
RecurringLess senior correctionSenior hours no longer spent re-checking and re-explaining.£960
RecurringClient service upliftExcluded.£0

One-off (per cohort): £0Recurring (per year): £18,648

The compounding view

Recurring value stacks as each cohort is trained. Every year adds a fresh one-off cohort while past cohorts keep returning recurring value. Cumulative net value over 3 years:

£15,648Yr 16.2×

£45,147Yr 26.6×

£84,119Yr 35.9×

Multi-year ROI projection: per-year and cumulative value, cost, and net, with the cumulative return multiple.
Year	Active trained staff	One-off value	Recurring value	Plan cost	Cumulative net	Cumulative multiple
1	5	£0	£18,648	£3,000	£15,648	6.2×
2	9.3	£0	£34,499	£5,000	£45,147	6.6×
3	12.9	£0	£47,972	£9,000	£84,119	5.9×

Over 3 years: £84,119 net value, a 5.9× return on plan cost. Assumes 85% of trained staff retained each year; attrition is modelled as a drag, never a lever.

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