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.
Executives
≈ 2 peopleManagement
≈ 7 peopleWorkers
≈ 26 peopleHeadcount 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.
Warm bodies, cold ROI.
$81,459 in wasted spend / yr
Winging it isn't free.
$108,916 in wasted spend / yr
Held anyway. Solved nothing.
$5,582 in wasted spend / yr
The tangent tax.
$44,655 in wasted spend / yr
Same topic, next week's calendar.
$159,902 in wasted spend / yr
Multiply by everyone waiting.
$94,786 in wasted spend / yr
The overrun nobody blocked time for.
$105,318 in wasted spend / yr
If nobody wrote it down, did it happen?
$158,393 in wasted spend / yr
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.