Hygiene Consumables Consumption Calculator
Monthly toilet paper, hand towels, soap, sanitiser and bin liners from headcount, site type and working days — with the cost that follows.
Hygiene consumables consumption and cost calculator
From headcount to monthly toilet paper, hand towels, soap, sanitiser and bin liners — and what they cost.
Result
Prices are labelled TRY because that is the currency we quote in. The arithmetic is linear, so if you enter your own unit prices in another currency the totals come back in that same currency — read the suffix as your currency, not ours.
The calculation runs entirely in your browser; nothing you type is sent to our servers. Only if you press “Turn this into a quote request” is the result written to your browser’s session storage, so it can be carried into the quote form.
Worked example
Opened with its default case — Number of employees: 50 · Type of site: Office / white collar · Working days per month: 22 — the calculator returns the figures below. They are written out here so the output is readable without running JavaScript: in print, with scripts disabled, or by a search engine.
| Input | Value |
|---|---|
| Number of employees | 50 |
| Type of site | Office / white collar |
| Working days per month | 22 |
| Visitors per day | 0 |
| Roll length (m) | 100 |
| Toilet roll unit price (TRY) | 95 |
| Hand towel pack price (TRY) | 55 |
| Liquid soap (TRY/litre) | 120 |
| Hand sanitiser (TRY/litre) | 260 |
| Bin liner (TRY/piece) | 4 |
| Result | Value |
|---|---|
| Toilet rolls / month | 21 rolls |
| Total paper length | 2,063 m of paper |
| Hand towels / month | 33 packs |
| Liquid soap / month | 2.8 litres |
| Hand sanitiser / month | 1.7 litres |
| Bin liners / month | 152 pcs |
| Monthly total cost | 5,177 TRY |
| Per person per month | 104 TRY |
| Annual budget | 62,124 TRY |
Change any field above and the calculator recomputes; this table is the default case only. Money figures follow the default unit prices built into the tool at August 2026 price levels, VAT excluded — enter your own prices for a real budget.
How much toilet paper and hand towel does a workplace use?
Consumption is calculated per person-day, not per employee per month, because the working-day count and the visitor load change the answer more than headcount does. Our planning figures: an office runs about 2.5 toilet uses and 6 hand-towel sheets per person-day (published industry estimates for towels run 4–12 a day), and, as rates relative to the office rather than measurements, a factory about 2.9 and 9.8, a healthcare site about 3.1 and 13.6. That is about 132 towel sheets per employee per month in an office. At roughly 0.75 m of paper per use, fifty office staff over 22 days need about 2,063 m of toilet paper a month — 21 rolls of 100 m, or 13 branded 170 m rolls. The single biggest driver of paper cost is not the price per roll but the metres per roll, and that is the figure buyers most often fail to compare.
Consumption per person-day
| Type of site | Toilet uses | Towel sheets | Soap (ml) | Sanitiser (ml) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office / white collar | 2.5 | 6 | 2.5 | 1.5 |
| Factory / production | 2.9 | 9.8 | 4.5 | 2 |
| Warehouse / logistics | 2.5 | 7.6 | 3.2 | 1.5 |
| School / education | 3.3 | 8.7 | 4 | 2.5 |
| Healthcare facility | 3.1 | 13.6 | 7 | 9 |
All figures are per person-day and are planning starting points, not measured statistics. In the office row, the towel and toilet paper figures sit inside ranges published by cleaning-industry sources (listed under Sources below); soap, sanitiser and liners have no published figure we could find. Towels: three washroom visits a day, towels used on about three quarters of them at two to four a visit gives 4.5–9 sheets; the same author’s other article counts every visit (6–12) and a distributor estimates 4–9 for a medium-sized office, so the published range is 4–12 and we take 6. Toilet paper estimates run from about 1.8 m to 6.1 m a day and we take a figure near the lower end, so real use may be higher. The other rows are relative to the office and have no separate source, although one source’s five visits a day for industrial and healthcare sites (10–20 towels) is close to our factory and healthcare towel rates. Until 28 September 2026 this page used 1.2 toilet uses and 2.2 towel sheets for an office — too low against every source we found, so it was corrected. Visitors are counted at 0.35 of an employee (our planning value), which reflects a shorter stay and fewer uses per visit — a planning assumption on the same footing as the rates themselves, not a measurement.
Two adjustments are worth making before you accept the output. A site with public-facing reception, a canteen or shift changeovers runs above these rates; a site where half the staff are out on the road runs below them. And in a facility with showers, towel consumption is not comparable at all — it should be budgeted separately.
Compare on metres, not on rolls
This is where hygiene budgets are won and lost. Two mini-jumbo rolls of the same diameter can hold 72 m and 170 m of paper. If the cheap one costs 40% less per roll it is still 60% more expensive per metre — and it is changed twice as often, which is a labour cost that never appears on the invoice.
| Figure on the label | Why it matters | The comparison to make |
|---|---|---|
| Metres per roll | The actual quantity of product | Price ÷ metres, across every offer |
| Net case weight | Cross-checks the metre claim; paper of a given ply and width has a predictable weight per metre | A high metre count with a low case weight means thinner paper |
| Ply and sheet width | Users compensate for thin paper by taking more | Consumption per use, not sheets per roll |
| Rolls per case | Sets the ordering unit and storage volume | Cases per month against your storeroom space |
The same logic applies to hand towels: a pack quoted as “200 sheets” and one quoted as “150 sheets” are not comparable on pack price, and the calculator assumes 200 so you can scale the result if yours differ.
Dispensers decide consumption
The dispenser, not the user, sets how much product leaves the wall. Centre-feed and controlled-portion dispensers cut consumption measurably against open shelves or an interleaved stack, because a single pull yields a single portion. Sensor soap dispensers do the same for liquids. This is the reason a hygiene supplier will often place dispensers cheaply: the consumable that fits them is where the margin sits, and switching later means changing the hardware too.
If you are being offered free dispensers, price the consumable over three years before you accept, and check whether the dispenser is keyed to a proprietary roll. A dispenser that takes any standard mini-jumbo roll keeps the next tender competitive.
Soap, sanitiser and the litre trap
Soap and sanitiser are bought in litres and used in millilitres per activation, so the comparison to make is cost per activation, not cost per litre. A foam dispenser delivering 0.4 ml per push and a liquid one delivering 1.1 ml are three times apart on running cost even if the concentrate costs the same.
Sanitiser has one more variable: alcohol content changes both efficacy and price, and gel, liquid and foam formats evaporate and dispense differently. Specify the format and the alcohol percentage in the enquiry, or the offers you get back will not be comparable.
Bin liners: the wrong unit
Bin liners are the item most often ordered in the wrong specification, because “large black bags” describes neither the dimension nor the strength. Two figures decide fitness for purpose: the flat width and length (a liner must exceed the bin circumference plus the overhang), and the micron thickness or the equivalent-strength rating. A thin liner that splits costs more than a thick one that does not, in cleaning time alone.
The liner rate moves with the site type: the calculator works from roughly one liner per seven person-days in an office, one per five in a warehouse, one per six in a school, one per four in a factory and one per three in a healthcare facility, across all bins on site. If your cleaning contract specifies daily changes of every bin regardless of fill, the real number is higher and is set by the contract, not by consumption — worth checking before you renew it.
What a year of supply costs
The calculator’s annual line is deliberately simple: it multiplies the monthly total by twelve. That is the right shape for a first budget number, but it carries two known biases, and they do not cancel out. Correct both before the figure goes into a budget.
| Step | What it does | Size and direction |
|---|---|---|
| Working days, not calendar months | Consumption is per person-day, so a year is built from the working days you actually run: twelve 22-day months make 264, while a Turkish calendar year leaves roughly 250 once public holidays are taken out | Lower by about 5%, and more where there is a shutdown week |
| Rounding to whole packs | The monthly figure rounds rolls, packs and liners up to whole units; multiplying by twelve repeats that rounding twelve times instead of once | Higher, by a margin that depends on how a month’s use divides into whole units: under 1% on the total at the default 50-person office, where the towel line happens to come to whole packs, and more on a small site where a month’s use is a fraction of a pack or roll. If you order monthly you genuinely do buy whole packs every month, so treat this as a correction to consumption, not to the purchase order |
| Headcount and seasonality | Use the average headcount over the year rather than today’s, and count visitors separately where the site has a public-facing reception | Either direction. Seasonality moves individual months; it changes the annual total only if the rates you entered describe a typical month rather than a yearly average |
The quickest way to make the tool answer a year: divide your own annual working days by twelve and enter that as the working days per month. The monthly figure then already carries the holiday correction and the annual line is usable as it stands.
Annual person-days = average headcount × working days in the year (plus visitors per day × 0.35, over the days the site is open; the calculator uses one day count for both)
Annual quantity = annual person-days × the per-person-day rate, converted to product last — toilet paper at 0.75 m per use ÷ the metres per roll, towels ÷ the sheets per pack, soap and sanitiser ÷ 1,000 for litres
The worked figures below use the calculator’s own default basis — 22 working days a month, so 264 person-days per person per year — so that they tie back to what the tool prints. Read every quantity about 5% lower if your own year runs the 250 working days a Turkish calendar leaves after public holidays. The quantities are arithmetic from the table in “Consumption per person-day”; nothing here is a price claim.
| Consumable | Rate per person-day | Per person, per year | 50 people, per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toilet paper | 2.5 uses × 0.75 m ≈ 1.9 m | ≈ 495 m | ≈ 24,750 m — about 248 rolls of 100 m, or 146 rolls of 170 m |
| Hand towel | 6 sheets | ≈ 1,584 sheets | ≈ 79,200 sheets — about 396 packs of 200 |
| Hand soap | 2.5 ml | ≈ 660 ml | ≈ 33 litres |
| Hand sanitiser | 1.5 ml | ≈ 396 ml | ≈ 20 litres |
Multiply each annual quantity by your own unit price to get the annual cost. Doing it in this order — quantity first, price second — is what makes two suppliers comparable, because the underlying quantity — metres, sheets, millilitres — does not change when the pack size does.
The annual figure is what you should be buying against, but it is not what you should be ordering at once. Consumables are bulky and low in value per cubic metre: a year of paper and towels for a 50-person office comes to roughly one to two pallets, and for a 500-person site to a small room. Paper also has to sit dry and uncrushed, or part of it is written off. The useful pair of numbers is an annual quantity commitment for the price, with the revision terms stated, and a monthly or quarterly call-off for the delivery.
Two things move it further than a percentage negotiated off the roll price, and neither shows up on a price comparison table. The first is metres per roll: it can differ by a factor of two at the same diameter, and it is what turns a cheap-looking roll into an expensive metre. The second is the dispenser, the only one of the two that changes the quantity you actually consume — a unit releasing a fixed sheet or a measured dose narrows the gap between a careful user and a careless one, while an open stack leaves it open. One decides your real unit price, the other decides your volume; the headline price per roll decides neither.
What to send us for a quote
Send the calculator output with your dispenser types (or a photo of them), the roll length you currently buy and the bin dimensions. We quote the consumables line by line with metres and net weights stated, so the offer can be compared against your existing supplier on the same basis — and delivered on one invoice to one or several sites.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many paper hand towels does an office use per employee per month?
About 132 sheets at our office planning rate of 6 sheets per person-day over 22 working days — roughly 1,584 a year. Published industry estimates run 4–12 sheets a day (4–9 for a medium-sized office), which over 22 working days is 88–264 a month. Controlled-portion dispensers pull you towards the bottom of it; open stacks towards the top. To get the cost, divide by the sheets per pack and multiply by your pack price.
Roughly how many paper hand towels does a 100-employee company use in a year?
About 158,400 sheets — 792 packs of 200 — at 6 sheets per person-day and 264 working days. The annual cost is that pack count times your own pack price; we do not quote a market price here because it moves with ply, sheet size and volume. Take about 5% off if your year has around 250 working days after public holidays, and add visitors at 0.35 of an employee (our planning value).
How many toilet rolls does a 50-person office need per month?
About 2,063 m of paper — 21 rolls of 100 m, or 13 branded 170 m rolls — assuming 22 working days and 2.5 uses per person-day at 0.75 m per use. The roll count depends entirely on the metres per roll, which is why the calculator asks for it.
Why compare paper on metres rather than on price per roll?
Because roll diameter is not quantity. Rolls of identical diameter hold anywhere from 72 to 220 m depending on ply, embossing and core size. Price per metre is the only figure that compares like with like, and it usually reverses the ranking that price per roll suggests.
Do visitors really need a separate line in the calculation?
On a site with regular visitor traffic, yes. Each visitor is counted at 0.35 of an employee (our planning value) here, reflecting a shorter stay. A reception-heavy site with 40 visitors a day adds the equivalent of fourteen staff to the consumption base.
Are free dispensers worth taking?
Only after pricing the consumable over three years and checking whether the dispenser accepts standard rolls. A proprietary-fit dispenser converts a one-off saving into a locked-in running cost, and makes the next tender non-competitive.
How thick should bin liners be?
Specify by dimension and micron rather than by description. The liner must exceed the bin circumference with enough length to fold over the rim, and the thickness should match the waste — a liner that splits under office waste is a false economy against the cleaning time it costs.
What does a year of hand sanitiser cost for a medium-sized office?
Build it from quantity, not from a headline price. At the office planning rate of 1.5 ml per person-day and our planning base of 264 person-days a year (22 × 12, which errs high against days actually worked), one person uses roughly 400 ml — so a 50-person office needs about 20 litres a year, and a 200-person office about 80 litres. Multiply that by your own price per litre for the annual cost. Two things shift it: the dose per activation (set by the dispenser and the product format — foam doses are smaller than liquid) and visitor traffic, which is counted at 0.35 of an employee (our planning value). Healthcare sites are not comparable at all — our planning rate there is 9.0 ml per person-day, six times an office (a relative planning rate, not a measurement).
How much should an office budget annually for paper towel dispensers, refills and maintenance?
Separate the three, because only one of them recurs. Dispensers are a one-off: you buy or are lent them once, and the number is set by the washroom count, not by headcount. Maintenance is small: Z-fold and lever dispensers need little beyond cleaning, battery-powered sensor units add battery changes and occasional repairs, and a recurring service charge belongs to a full washroom-service contract — if a quotation carries one, ask what it covers. Refills are the real annual line and they scale with person-days: at 6 sheets per person-day, a 50-person office uses roughly 79,200 sheets a year, about 396 packs of 200. Price the refill over three years before accepting free dispensers — a proprietary-fit unit turns a one-off saving into a locked-in running cost.
Is the annual figure just the monthly one times twelve?
Only if every month has the same number of working days and the same occupancy, which is rarely true. The reliable way is to multiply person-days rather than months: rate per person-day × (headcount + visitors × 0.35) × working days in the year. A summer shutdown and a shift pattern that changes mid-year show up correctly in that form and disappear in a flat × 12; a seasonal visitor peak only does if you average the visitor count over the year. The quickest route with this tool is to enter your annual working days ÷ 12 as the working days per month.
Can you supply several sites on one invoice?
Yes. Branches, sites and depots can be delivered separately and billed to one account with a single current account, which is usually the reason buyers consolidate hygiene supply in the first place.
Sources
- Method: person-days × rate ÷ pack size. The rates are planning assumptions, not official statistics, and four of them can be overridden in the calculator. The office towel and toilet paper figures sit inside the ranges in the industry sources below; the other site types are relative to the office (updated 28 September 2026). Two of the sources are the same author’s trade-magazine pricing guides; the other two are company blogs that do not cite where their figures come from.
- Cleaning Business Magazine — Pricing Paper, Plastic and Soap in Commercial Accounts (W. R. Griffin, 2017, US trade magazine; 3 washroom visits a day, towels used on 75% of them, 2–4 towels a visit; 5 visits a day in industrial and healthcare sites; toilet tissue: 3 visits a day for women, 1 for men, about 3 m a visit)
- CMM — Pricing Products for Dispensers (2–4 towels per visit, up to 12 a day; same author as the CBM piece, W. R. Griffin, 2017)
- Power Hygiene — UK office paper hand towel usage (blog of a paper towel distributor; 4–9 sheets per employee per day in a medium-sized office, 6–12 in a small one; no source given for the figures)
- The Laundry Brothers — Toilet paper usage for a 50-person office (blog of a facility services firm; 3 visits × 6 sheets a day; no source given)
How we choose sources, verify figures and date our pages is set out in how we source and verify what we publish. Spotted an error? Write to info@aksco.com.tr — verified errors are corrected.
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