The User Interviews Cost Savings Calculator
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The User Interviews Cost Savings Calculator

Doing user interviews on a tight budget? Use our calculator to find out what you can save on your user research.

Looking to cut costs for your research recruiting? Our cost savings calculator can help you evaluate what you're currently spending and how User Interviews can help you save. Check it out 👇

Welcome to the User Interviews Cost Savings Calculator!

How does your team recruit participants for research right now?

Who is most responsible for research participant recruiting?

Who can we help you recruit for research?

On average, how many participants do you recruit each month for research?

10 participants per month

5 participants per month
300 participants per month

Flip this switch if you need participants with a certain job title or professional experience level

Your monthly cost for research recruiting
$630
What you'd pay with User Interviews
$250

Cost Savings, annually

$4,560

Time Savings, annually

108 hours

Save these numbers for the future, send them to your team, or show your boss that recruiting with a tool is cheaper than they think. Just drop your email below 👇

Want to see how we did our math? Scroll down ⬇️

Because research recruitment is our bread and butter, here's a few ways we can save your team’s time and resources...

⏰ We can qualify your first participant in minutes, our average is 2 hours.

🙋‍♀️ We have a huge database of over 350,000 participants. If someone asks us for a type of participant we don’t have yet, we go out and find new people to bring into our pool, making it bigger and better all the time.

💰 We distribute incentives automatically once a participant completes your research session. We even issue 1099s if participants need them.

Here's how we did our math:

The total number of participants you’ll need to recruit each month:

10

+

2

=

12

the number of participants you said you recruited monthly

the number of extra participants you’ll need to recruit to account for no-shows, according to an NNg study that found the average no show rate was 11%

Your total monthly cost of recruiting on your own:

$45

*

14 hours

=

$630

the average hourly rate of a User Researcher, according to Glassdoor.

how long you'll need to spend recruiting participants, based on a study by NNg.

Your estimated annual cost savings:

$7,560

-

$3,000

=

$4,560

your total cost of recruiting right now.

the annual cost of recruiting participants on a Recruit Essential plan with User Interviews

Your estimated annual time savings:

168 hours

-

30 hours

=

138 hours

how much time we estimate your team is spending on research recruiting right now

how much time we estimate your team will spend launching and managing projects on User Interviews, based on data from our website sessions and insight from our Project Coordinators.

Carrie Boyd
Former Content Writer at UI

Carrie Boyd is a UXR content wiz, formerly at User Interviews. She loves writing, traveling, and learning new things. You can typically find her hunched over her computer with a cup of coffee the size of her face.

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