The $10K CEO Pay Grade Audit
Discover how much of your week is stuck in $10–$100/hr quicksand vs. driving $1,000–$10,000/hr CEO levers. Get a personalized PDF report with your time distribution, opportunity-cost analysis, and a custom prescription.
What the $10K CEO Pay Grade Audit actually measures
Every hour you work sits in one of four value tiers — from $10/hour busywork up to the $10,000/hour decisions only the owner can make. This audit asks how many hours a week you spend in each tier, then shows you what the low-leverage hours are costing you and what to do about it.
Administrative Quicksand
Inbox triage, calendar juggling, manual invoicing, basic data entry.
The Technician Trap
Hands-on delivery, tech firefighting, reactive client work, daily fires.
Systems Architect
Documented SOPs, automated funnels, auditing where money leaks out.
True CEO Levers
Multi-year strategy, partnerships and JVs, proprietary assets.
What comes back in your report
Your time distribution
The percentage of your week sitting in each tier, so you can see the leak in one glance.
Annual opportunity-cost estimate
What the hours spent below your pay grade are worth if redirected — annualized, with the math shown so you can check it.
Your bottlenecks and next levers
A written prescription naming what to hand off first and which higher-value work to protect.
The report you get at the end
Your time split across the four value tiers, the annual opportunity-cost figure attached to your operator hours, and the specific bottlenecks to clear first. Emailed to you as a PDF you can keep or share with your team.
