Meeting Cost Calculator
That meeting has a price tag.
Nobody sees the invoice — but every recurring meeting quietly bills the company in salary and stolen attention. Move the sliders. See what it really costs.
Currency
Attendees 6
230
Average annual salary 90,000
30k300k
Meeting length 60min
15 min3 hrs
Meetings like this / week 3×
1×20×
Cost of this one meeting
$540in salaried time, billed once
Run it every week, and over a year it costs $25,920.
That annual spend could fund a month of someone's salary — quietly burned in a room where most people are only half-listening.
The part the calendar hides
Money is only half the bill
23m
to refocus after each interruption
A meeting doesn't cost only its length. It fractures the deep work on either side of it — and that recovery isn't on the invoice.
71%
of meetings are seen as unproductive
Senior managers' own estimate. Most of the spend above is for time nobody felt was well used.
½
could be an email or a doc
Before you book the recurring slot, ask if it needs to be live at all. The cheapest meeting is the one that became a paragraph.
Protect your team's attention like the budget line it is.
