Heat cost calculator

What is heat costing your crew?

Heat takes 35% of a worker's output on an extreme day. Pick your industry, size your crew, and see the bill.

What heat costs your crew every year

$7.13M

Across 500 workers and 80 hot days a year.

$14,250 Cost per worker / year
13 days Output lost per worker
35% Of output, on an extreme day

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Where the cost comes from

Six lines on the heat bill, per worker per year.

Lost output on hot days35% of a paid day on extreme days, 10% on the rest $5,850
Overtime and hazard payThe premium you pay to finish work on extreme days $4,500
Heat-related sick daysDays a worker is paid for and not on site $900
Attrition driven by heatThe share of your turnover bill that heat is causing $2,700
Heat illness incidentsSpread across the full crew $200
Schedule delaysCrew and equipment idle on a stop-work day $100
What heat costs you, per worker $14,250

Workers' compensation is deliberately left out of this bill. Premium effects are slow, carrier-specific, and would make the number look bigger than you can defend in a budget meeting. Everything above is driven by the inputs you set, so a milder year or a smaller crew moves it down.

Assumes heat takes 35% of output on an extreme day and 10% on a standard hot day, from Zander 2015, Foster 2021 and Seppanen 2006. See the research

And what Clema takes back

Clema takes back $11,500 of that, per worker per year.

$11,500 Value / worker
28.8x Return on investment
13 days Payback period
$5.55M Fleet net, year one

Fleet net is after the cost of every vest, in year one.

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Where Clema's value comes from

Grouped into three buckets per worker per year.

Productivity $9,450

Output recovered on hot days, overtime avoided, and heat-related absences prevented.

Safety $700

Heat incidents avoided, workers' comp premium reductions, and project delays prevented.

Retention $1,350

Heat-driven attrition prevented and replacement cost (recruiting, onboarding, ramp) avoided.

Clema's side is a separate, smaller number: up to 15% of a full paid day recovered, never more than heat took that day. Tune every other assumption in .

Summer 2026, 500-unit first batch

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