Based on Six Sigma Industry Research

Is your shop leaking money
on rework and waste?

Mid-size sign shops lose $19K–$49K every year to material waste, rework labor, and missed install deadlines. Calculate your number.

Your Shop

Number of Employees 15
160
Annual Revenue $400,000
$100K$2M
Estimated Rework Rate 10%
5%20%
Missed Install Deadlines / Year 5
020
How is this calculated? ↓

Material waste — Estimated at 1.5–2.5% of revenue, scaled by rework rate. Accounts for miscuts, misprints, and substrate waste that doesn't make it to invoice.

Rework labor — Rework rate × 0.5 × employees × $50/hr avg loaded rate × 2,080 hours × 5% of time spent on remediation. Based on AISC/Six Sigma fabrication benchmarks.

Missed deadline costs — Industry average $1,500 per missed install deadline (rush rescheduling, penalty clauses, client goodwill, crew overtime).

SignageHub improvement rate — Conservative 25% waste reduction. Published range: 20–30% for shops adopting digital job tracking + automated scheduling.

Payback period — Annual subscription cost ÷ annual savings from waste reduction.

Your shop is losing approximately
$17,400
per year to rework, waste & missed deadlines
Material waste $6,000
Rework labor $3,900
Missed deadlines $7,500
Total annual waste $17,400
SignageHub reduction (25%) $4,350/yr
SignageHub subscription $199/mo
Annual net savings $1,962
Subscription pays for itself in 6.5 months

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