See your ROI before you commit. One minute. Property type. Size.
Pick a property type — retail, warehouse, HOA, dispensary, office, construction, event venue — and enter approximate square footage (or monthly revenue for event venues). We compare projected MPS monthly guard cost against industry-average unprotected-loss rates, side by side.
What we plan against
Each row carries the planning baseline we use for that property type — fully-loaded guard hourly rate, typical hours per 1,000 sqft per month, and the industry-average unprotected-loss $ / sqft · yr. The calculator below applies these ratios against your inputs.
- Guard rate
- $45 / hr
- Hours / 1k sqft / mo
- 60
- Loss rate $/sqft·yr
- $40
- Guard rate
- $45 / hr
- Hours / 1k sqft / mo
- 24
- Loss rate $/sqft·yr
- $20
- Guard rate
- $42 / hr
- Hours / 1k sqft / mo
- 4
- Loss rate $/sqft·yr
- $4
- Guard rate
- $55 / hr
- Hours / 1k sqft / mo
- 360
- Loss rate $/sqft·yr
- $300
- Guard rate
- $42 / hr
- Hours / 1k sqft / mo
- 16
- Loss rate $/sqft·yr
- $12
- Guard rate
- $45 / hr
- Hours / 1k sqft / mo
- 48
- Loss rate $/sqft·yr
- $35
- Guard rate
- $50 / hr
- Hours / 1k sqft / mo
- 120
- Loss rate $/sqft·yr
- $90
Step 1 of 1
Plug in your site. Numbers recompute live.
Every figure updates the moment you change a field. We use industry-average unprotected-loss rates for “without guards” and the typical staffing posture for “with MPS coverage” — so a result here is a planning default, not a binding quote.
Step 1 · Profile your site
Tell us about the property.
Pick a property type and enter a size — square footage for most sites, monthly event revenue for venues. The math uses industry-average loss and guarding rates to estimate your monthly exposure.
Storefront footprint — sales floor plus back-of-house.
How exposed is this site versus the comparable baseline?
Estimate for Retail Storefront
Using 5,000 effective sqft · risk multiplier applied
Industry-average unprotected-loss rate for this property type — broader cost-of-crime including insurance impact, business interruption, and replacement cost.
Fully-loaded uniformed guard cost at the typical staffing posture for a property of this size — wage, benefits, dispatch overhead, and margin included.
Estimates are planning defaults from industry averages — real numbers depend on site geometry, hours of coverage, and threat profile. Request a custom quote and we’ll come back with exact figures inside one business day.
Get a custom quoteHow the number is built
Methodology, sources, and what we’re not pretending to do.
The calculator is a planning tool, not a quote engine. Here’s the math, the assumptions, and the levers a real quote will turn differently than the ones we flip in this tool.
Loss rates are industry-average planning defaults
Numbers are calibrated from public loss data (NRF retail shrinkage, FBI UCR property crime, insurance industry per-sqft loss benchmarks) — not proprietary or marketing-staged. They include broader cost-of-crime: direct theft, insurance premium impact, business interruption, and brand / legal cost.
MPS cost is fully-loaded
Guard cost = wage + benefits + training + dispatch overhead + margin, at the typical staffing posture the supervisor on rotation recommends for a property of that type and size. Hourly rates assume a uniformed BSIS-licensed officer, not an unarmed monitor.
Site geometry wins
A real quote reflects hours of coverage, patrol vs. standing-post posture, dual-guard relief rotations, the threat profile of the surrounding block, and any regulatory requirements (fire-watch adjacency after-hours, cannabis Metrc, HOA gate-program specifics). The calculator gives you a target. Dispatch pins it to your site.
No fancy math
Monthly MPS cost = (sqft / 1,000) × hours-per-1,000-sqft × hourly rate. Monthly no-guard loss = sqft × annual rate ÷ 12, then × risk multiplier. The savings delta is loss minus cost — if that delta is positive across your entire input range, guarding pays for itself and then some.
Quick scan: what changes what
- Footprint (sqft). Multiplies MPS cost AND unprotected loss linearly.
- Property type. Sets the guard-hour-per-sqft baseline + the loss-rate baseline.
- Risk profile. 1.0× baseline · 1.4× elevated · 1.85× high — multiplies loss only.
- Hours of coverage (not in this tool). A real quote lets you pick standing vs. patrol vs. 24h dual-guard relief — the biggest cost lever.
From estimate → quote
Ready for a number pinned to your actual site?
The form opens with the branched intake — tell us about the post type, the hours, and the date. Dispatch replies inside one business day, usually inside an hour during the workday.
What happens next
Submit your estimate and we’ll pin it to a real number: which metro you’re staffing for (we cover all seven California metros under PPO 126825), the post type (standing / patrol / lobby / event / executive / fire-watch), the hours of operation, and the go-live date.
- Metro
- Post type
- Hours
- Site address
- Go-live date
UTM param utm_source=roi-calcrides through so dispatch sees the calculator as the conversion source — feedback flows back into the calculator’s rate cards over time.