Time economics
Meeting Cost Calculator
Quick answer: This meeting cost calculator helps teams and managers estimate the salary cost of meetings based on attendees, pay, and duration.
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Estimate what a meeting really costs based on the number of attendees, average hourly salary, and duration. The live ticker shows the cost building up second by second, which makes recurring meetings much easier to evaluate honestly.
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Use this for standups, leadership syncs, planning sessions, or any recurring meeting where time has a meaningful team cost.
This estimate uses direct salary cost only. It does not include benefits, payroll taxes, prep time, context switching, or the opportunity cost of delaying other work.
Why this calculator is useful
Meeting cost is easy to underestimate because it is spread across multiple people. A 30- or 45-minute block can look small on the calendar while still consuming a meaningful amount of salary cost across a team.
The live ticker makes that cost visible in real time. That is especially helpful when deciding whether a meeting should be shorter, smaller, asynchronous, or less frequent.
Recurring meetings compound quickly. A weekly meeting may feel harmless on its own, but over a year it can represent thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in working time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Meeting cost is estimated from attendees multiplied by average hourly salary and then scaled to the meeting duration in hours or minutes.
Average hourly salary gives a fast planning estimate when exact rates vary across attendees or when you only need a team-level decision number.
No. This version focuses on direct salary cost only, so the real business cost may be even higher when benefits and overhead are included.
A meeting is easier to justify when the alignment, decision quality, or risk reduction is worth more than the time cost for everyone attending.