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What your agency gets back

The real return on supervision technology is officers with room to do the job and more people who finish successfully. The budget office needs hours, positions and dollars first. This page gives you those. Enter your numbers, every assumption is shown, and no email is required to see the result.

The return that matters

Officers who go home without the caseload still in their head. Time for the conversations that change behavior instead of the paperwork that doesn't. More people finishing supervision successfully. Fewer missed court dates, fewer revocations, fewer trips back to jail. That is why agencies do this. It is also the hardest thing to put on a budget request.

The return that gets it funded

Budget offices approve hours, positions and dollars. Officer time back is the one return you can count before you start, because it is built from your own officer count and what a loaded position costs you. Run those numbers below. What agencies have reported on the outcomes side is on our results page.

Your agency

Probation, parole, pretrial or court staff who carry a caseload.
Salary plus benefits. The default is the national median from BLS data plus a benefits multiplier. Use your own.
Funded, vacant, and not getting filled. This is usually where the money comes from.

Optional

Monitor vendor, check-in apps, anything RePath would replace.
Pretrial and treatment court programs. Leave at zero if it does not apply.
We do not guess this for you. If you do not know it, leave it blank and that line stays off.
Officer hours back per year
0
At 8 to 10 hours per officer per week, 50 working weeks.
Positions of capacity
0
Hours returned divided by a 2,080-hour work year.
Salary value of that capacity
$0
Positions of capacity at your loaded cost per officer.
Annual value returned
$0
Capacity value plus redirected spend plus missed court dates avoided. Before any cost of RePath, which depends on your officer count and we will quote on the first call.
Every assumption on this page
  • 8 to 10 hours per officer per week. What RePath customers report after moving check-ins, reminders, messaging and visit notes onto the phone. Measured across multiple agencies. We show the range, not a single number.
  • 50 working weeks. A year less leave.
  • 2,080 hours per position. Forty hours, fifty-two weeks. The standard public-sector full-time year.
  • $76,700 fully loaded cost per officer. Bureau of Labor Statistics median salary for probation officers plus a benefits multiplier. Replace it with your own.
  • Vacancy absorption. Returned capacity can cover the work vacant positions were funded to do, up to the number of positions of capacity returned. Their salary line is already appropriated. A state department of corrections told us this is how they funded their contract.
  • 20% fewer missed court dates. A randomized trial in Santa Clara County found automated reminders cut missed-court warrants by about 20% (Science Advances, 2025).
  • $2,850 per missed court date. Same study. Preventing one costs about $10.
  • What is not here. Jail days avoided, recidivism cost avoided, overtime reduction. Agencies have measured all three on RePath, but they depend on your program and we would rather build those with you than guess.

Email me this analysis

We send you the numbers above with your inputs, in an email you can forward to a finance office. A person sends it, not a bot. Nothing else, unless you ask.

What the number means

Most agencies do not fund supervision technology with new money. They fund it with the positions they cannot fill, the hardware they already pay for, and the jail beds they stop using. The calculator above shows the first two from your own inputs. The third we build with you, from your per diem and your program, because it is the number your finance office will check hardest.

If you want the version with jail days, recidivism and overtime in it, bring your officer count and your per diem to a 30-minute funding path review. You leave with every input written down.

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Book a 30-minute funding path review. Bring your officer count and your jail per diem.

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