Meeting cost calculator

See what a meeting really costs — and watch the cost tick up live while it runs. Then decide whether it could have been an email.

This meeting costs
$90
in salary, every time it runs.
If it’s weekly, that’s
$4,687
per year.
Live cost
$0.00
0m 0s · $0.05/sec
$25,000
wasted per employee, per year, on unnecessary meetings
~18 hrs
the average employee spends in meetings each week
31%
of meeting invites people would rather decline

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Frequently asked questions

How do you calculate the cost of a meeting?

Cost = (each attendee's hourly rate) × (number of attendees) × (duration in hours). Hourly rate is the annual salary divided by 2,080 working hours a year. This calculator does it instantly and can also tick the cost up live while the meeting runs.

What's the average cost of a meeting?

It depends on size and seniority, but the maths adds up fast: a weekly 30-minute meeting with five people on $75,000 salaries costs about $900 a year — and that's a small one. Long recurring meetings with senior staff routinely cost tens of thousands of dollars a year.

How can I reduce meeting costs?

Cut attendees to the people who truly need to be there, shorten the default length, replace status updates with async messages, and stop the back-and-forth of finding a time. Sharing a booking link instead of emailing about availability alone saves hours of calendar tetris each week.

Turn time into booked meetings

Calenkli gives you a free booking link: people pick a slot in their own timezone, answer your questions first, and the meeting lands on your calendar automatically.

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