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Industry research shows on average 10–30 hours per plan annually on manual census collection and scrubbing — a 25–35% productivity loss during peak season.1

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TPA Connect pulls census data straight from the client's payroll system, so the administrator reviews a file instead of building one. Adjust to model a conservative or full-adoption scenario.

Annual sunk cost — manual census collection
$600,000

Payroll dollars your administrators spend every year collecting and cleaning census data before a single valuation or test gets run.

1,000 plans × 20 hrs × $30/hr = $600 per plan
Total admin hours 20,000 hrs Equal to 9.6 full-time administrators working a full year (2,080 hrs each).
Per plan 20 hrs · $600 Every plan on the book carries this before any billable work begins.
Recovered with TPA Connect
$480,000 Annual cost reclaimed at 80% of census work automated
16,000 hrs Administrator hours returned 7.7 FTEs redeployed to billable work
Automated 16,000 hrs Still manual 4,000 hrs

Estimates only. Figures are calculated from the inputs above and are intended to illustrate the scale of manual census effort — they are not a quote, a guarantee of savings, or a substitute for your own cost analysis. FTE equivalents assume a 2,080-hour work year.

1. “AI 401(k) Software ROI for TPA Firms,” Stax.ai. stax.ai/resources/what-business-outcomes-should-tpa-firms-expect-from-ai-powered-401-k-and-payroll

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