Last updated by Errin O'Connor, Founder & Chief AI Architect, EPC Group
The EPC Group Microsoft Copilot ROI Calculator gives CIOs a directional Year-1 ROI estimate for a Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout in under sixty seconds. It takes seat count, fully-loaded employee cost, hours saved per user per week, adoption ramp, industry, and one-time implementation cost — and returns annual productivity value, license cost, Year-1 net value, ROI percentage, payback in months (with the adoption ramp), and 3-year cumulative value. Healthcare and Financial Services are discounted 15% for compliance overhead; Tech and Professional Services are uplifted 10%. These factors are EPC Group assumptions, listed with the results; the model is directional, not calibrated against measured deployments.
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Microsoft Copilot ROI Calculator
The Microsoft Copilot ROI Calculator estimates Year-1 net value, payback period, and 3-year cumulative value of a Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout for your specific seat count, fully-loaded employee cost, adoption ramp, and industry. It is a directional model, not a forecast: it multiplies your inputs by Microsoft's Copilot list price and by EPC Group's stated adoption and industry assumptions, which are listed under the results.
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Model assumptions (version 2026-10-28.1)
- Time value = hours saved per week × 50 working weeks × hourly cost (annual cost ÷ 2,080 hours) × seats × adoption × industry factor. It is potential capacity: it becomes savings only when the hours are redeployed or a cost is avoided.
- License cost: $30 per user per month, Microsoft 365 Copilot list price (Microsoft, 2026).
- Adoption: fast 0.9 reached over 3 months, moderate 0.75 over 6 months, slow 0.55 over 12 months. Year-1 values use the full adoption level; payback follows the ramp month by month.
- Industry factor: healthcare and financial services 0.85, government, manufacturing and other 1, tech and professional services 1.1 — EPC Group assumptions, not measured benchmarks.
- Realization: the share of the potential time value that becomes value (hours redeployed, cost avoided) — 100% unless you set it lower. Governance: your ongoing governance, change-management and support run cost per user per year, treated as a recurring cost — $0 unless you enter it.
Directional estimates from the assumptions listed above, not a measured result. Actual ROI varies by adoption rate, governance posture, and workflow redesign discipline. Schedule a 30-day fixed-fee Copilot ROI Assessment for a customer-specific model.
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