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Meeting Cost Calculator

Find out what a meeting really costs your organisation.

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  • No sign-up
  • Nothing is sent or stored
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Taxes, benefits and office costs on top of salary.

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Result

Cost of one meeting
$387
Per year
$18,587
48 meetings over 48 working weeks
Per minute
$6.45
People-hours per year
384
Cost per attendee-hour
$48.40
Cutting this meeting by 15 minutes would save about $4,647 a year.

The calculation happens instantly in your browser. The numbers you enter are not sent to our servers or saved.

How to use the Meeting Cost Calculator

  1. Enter the number of attendees and their average salary.
  2. Set the meeting length and how often it happens.
  3. Read the cost per meeting and per year.

What does this tool do?

An hour-long weekly meeting with eight people can cost tens of thousands a year in salary time. Making that visible helps teams decide which meetings to shorten, merge or replace with a written update.

The calculation includes employment overhead and assumes about 1,880 working hours a year.

Why use it?

  • Per meeting and per year.
  • Includes overhead.
  • Shows savings from shorter meetings.

Privacy

The calculation happens instantly in your browser. The numbers you enter are not sent to our servers or saved. There's no account to create and nothing to install.

Last reviewed by the M2Toolkit team.

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