The Reverse Challenge Cost-estimate
To produce a costs summary for the incident, we used the following premises:
- Annual salary of every analyst/administrator involved is $70,000
and there are no user-related costs.
- We worked as a team, although our main objective was to learn, and most of the work has been done several times (even up to four times!).
We are a team of four investigators, with these profiles:
|
Profile |
Years of Experience |
||
|
|
System Admin |
Programming |
Security |
|
Incident
Investigator 1 |
9 |
5 |
5 |
|
Incident
Investigator 2 |
6 |
5 |
4 |
|
Incident
Investigator 3 |
5 |
2 |
4 |
|
Incident
Investigator 4 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
So, our cost estimation is:
|
Title |
Hours |
Cost/Hr. |
Total |
-15% |
15% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Incident
Investigator 1 |
45 |
$31,25 |
$1.406,25 |
$1.195,31 |
$1.617,19 |
|
|
Incident
Investigator 2 |
35 |
$31,25 |
$1.093,75 |
$929,69 |
$1.257,81 |
|
|
Incident
Investigator 3 |
25 |
$31,25 |
$781,25 |
$664,06 |
$898,44 |
|
|
Incident
Investigator 4 |
25 |
$31,25 |
$781,25 |
$664,06 |
$898,44 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subtotal |
130 |
|
$4.062,50 |
$3.453,13 |
$4.671,88 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Benefits @ 28% |
|
|
$1.137,50 |
$966,88 |
$1.308,13 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subtotal (Salary
and Benefits) |
|
|
$5.200,00 |
$4.420,00 |
$5.980,00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Indirect Costs |
|
|
$660,10 |
$561,09 |
$759,12 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Labor Cost |
|
|
$5.860,10 |
$4.981,09 |
$6.739,12 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Median Cost +/- 15% |
|
|
|
$5.860,10 |
$879,02 |
(+/-) |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
Salary / year |
|
|
$70.000,00 |
|
|
|
|
working days /
year |
|
|
280 |
|
|
|
|
working hours /
day |
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
|
working hours /
year |
|
|
2240 |
|
|
|
|
Cost per hour |
|
|
$31,25 |
|
|
|