What is caregiving costing your workforce?
Your employees are personally absorbing time and out-of-pocket dollars your benefits stack doesn't see. Here's the aggregate — the empathy-data companion to the business-cost view.
Pair this with the cost-to-your-business calculator → for both the financial and the human case in one meeting.
Same three questions, different lens
Use the same inputs as the business-cost calc so you can run both side-by-side.
Estimated annual cost to your workforce $0
Across approximately 0 caregiver employees — this is what they're personally absorbing in time and out-of-pocket spend.
That works out to $0/yr per caregiver employee — absorbed personally, every year.
Roughly one-third of these hours are administrative coordination — phone calls, portals, scheduling, paperwork, family updates — per AARP/NAC 2025. That is the layer Averyn addresses. The hands-on care, the medical decisions, the emotional labor of being there — those stay with your employees.
Of what your workforce is personally absorbing, the slice Averyn is built to relieve is roughly $0 per year (~21% of total).
Where the empathy-data is sharpest: your highest earners.
The workforce cost concentrates at the top — not the bottom — of your org chart. Senior employees have higher hourly values, more competing demands, and the longest list of "things I'm quietly absorbing." They're also the ones most likely to silently leave for a more accommodating employer (SHRM Working Caregivers) rather than ask for help.
A voluntary-benefit listing reaches them at no employer cost. See "Three ways to offer Averyn" →
The cost above doesn't capture what slips when nobody's coordinating.
- The referral that quietly expired in a fax queue — now a new specialist intake from scratch.
- The aide who walked in cold and quit a week later because no one briefed them.
- The medication change two specialists made without telling each other.
- The home-health visit window that closed unused.
Your employees are paying the cost above and still dropping balls. They're stretched, not careless.
What changes: the people you depend on stop quietly absorbing chaos. Sunday-night dread fades. Calls with their parents go back to being about them. And your culture earns a reputation for taking the unspoken stuff seriously — the thing every employee survey says people want but few benefit stacks deliver on.
Three ways to offer Averyn:
Co-funded pilot (measurable in 90 days) · Voluntary benefit (zero cost, sharpest for HCEs) · LSA-eligible (extends your existing menu). See which path fits →
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Methodology & sources
Every coefficient is cited. Numbers are intentionally conservative.
Caregiver prevalence
~21% national average for working adults, adjusted by industry — AARP/NAC, 2025.
Hours per caregiver
24 hours/week (mid-range for working caregivers; the full sample averages higher because of non-working primary caregivers). AARP/NAC 2025.
Hourly value derivation
Average salary ÷ 2,080 work hours/year. This is the conservative way to value personal time — people typically value off-hours time higher, but using the work-hour rate makes the number defensible across very different audiences.
Out-of-pocket spend
~$7,242 per caregiver per year — AARP Caregivers Cost Survey, 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2025.
Averyn-addressable slice
Admin/coordination is ~32% of caregiver time per AARP/NAC IADL + care-coordination categorization. Of that admin layer, Averyn realistically relieves ~65%. Net: ~21% of total workforce burden.
What this estimate does NOT include
- Health-cost spillover (caregiver-as-patient effect — Personify Health)
- Indirect cost of foregone retirement contributions / career trajectory
- Spillover to other family members and household productivity
- Travel and relocation cost for long-distance caregiving
See the business-impact view — cost-to-your-business calculator →
Are you the one doing the caregiving? See what it's costing you — personal cost calculator →
Want a self-audit of your current benefits? Benefits gap checklist →