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Sum up the salaries of multiple individuals and divide by the number of individuals.

Average Salary = Total Salary of Quality Staff Members / Number of Quality Staff Members

Consider the staff member's work schedule, including regular hours, overtime, and any additional factors that may affect their weekly commitment. Subtract any breaks and meal times during the workday.

Active documents are typically those that are currently in use, relevant, and up to date.

For example: Policies, SOPs, Work Instructions, forms, protocols, reports, specifications, analytical methods, and any other document types relevant to your quality management processes.

Although different document types have varying levels of complexity, which can affect the time required for their lifecycle management, consider the time:

• It takes to create, revise, and get approval for a document
• Generating PDF documents or printing the master document
• Checking the master list for documents due for revision
• Sending emails for review
• Collecting stakeholder signatures at each stage of the document management cycle
  Establishing reminders
• Updating metadata

Consider the total number of documents that need to be read & understood by final users, and training

Consider the time:

• Accessing the original document
• Spent reading and understanding
• Compiling, assigning and organizing training
• Reporting reading, understanding, and training records
• Managing the entire lifecycle

Consider the total number of deviations, non-conformities, complaints, out-of-specification results, and any other type of quality event per month.

Consider the time for:

• Event creation
• Root-cause analysis
• Reporting
• Event responses preparation and CAPAs creation
• Managing CAPAs resolution
• Trending and KPIs
• CAPAs effectiveness check