Business Tools
Meeting Cost Calculator
What that meeting costs in salary terms — per hour, per year.
Powering up the tool…
What this tool does
About the meeting cost calculator
People × time × loaded salary, with the recurring-forever multiplier.
How to use it
- Enter attendees, average salary, minutes.
- Tick recurring for the yearly total.
- Read the cost and its basis.
- Share screen at the start of the next one (optional, devastating).
Useful for
- Put a number on the weekly all-hands.
- Decide agenda-or-email with arithmetic.
- Make “quick sync” mean it.
Straight answers
Meeting Cost Calculator FAQ
Is the number fair? Salaries aren’t the whole cost.
It UNDERcounts if anything: the 1.3 loading approximates employment overheads, and opportunity cost rides free. But cost ≠ value — one good decision pays for a year of stand-ups. The tool prices attention; only the agenda justifies it.
What do I do with the yearly figure?
Treat a weekly hour like the part-time hire it financially is: does it have a job description? The calculator turns “meetings feel expensive” into a line item someone can own.