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What are your meetings actually costing you?

Add up the salaries in the room, multiply by the hours, and you'll never look at a recurring invite the same way again.

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Meeting cost calculator

Start with your team's numbers to get the headline cost. Then dial in nine everyday meeting habits — late starts, missing agendas, action items nobody closes — to see exactly what's driving it.

Your team, in three groups

Split your headcount into execs, managers, and everyone else. We'll blend the salaries and meeting load into one number.

Salary shown as

Executives

2 people
5%
80%
$140

Management

7 people
20%
50%
$65

Workers

26 people
75%
25%
$25
6

Headcount on a typical invite.

Right now, this team spends

$1,116,369

a year in meetings

3,893 meetings / yr on $2,576,875 in total labor cost

Nine habits, nine price tags

Every one of these is fixable. Here's what each is quietly costing you a year.

10%

Warm bodies, cold ROI.

$81,459 in wasted spend / yr

60%

Winging it isn't free.

$108,916 in wasted spend / yr

1%

Held anyway. Solved nothing.

$5,582 in wasted spend / yr

20%

The tangent tax.

$44,655 in wasted spend / yr

20%

Same topic, next week's calendar.

$159,902 in wasted spend / yr

5 mins

Multiply by everyone waiting.

$94,786 in wasted spend / yr

10 mins

The overrun nobody blocked time for.

$105,318 in wasted spend / yr

70%

If nobody wrote it down, did it happen?

$158,393 in wasted spend / yr

50%

Decisions that die in the doc.

$43,998 in wasted spend / yr

Fix these nine habits and get back

$803,010

a year

Recalculates instantly as you move the sliders above.

That number doesn't have to be permanent.

Less Meeting turns “we should really fix our meetings” into an actual system — timed agendas, action items that carry forward until they're closed, and a running cost view so you're not doing this math by hand next quarter.