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Meeting Cost Calculator

Work out what a meeting really costs from attendee count, blended hourly rate and duration, with a live ticking counter and the annual cost if it recurs.

$330.00
Cost of this meeting
$5.50
Cost per minute
6.00
Person-hours consumed
$17,160
Cost per year

Live meeting meter

Start it as the meeting begins and watch the real-time cost climb at $5.50 a minute.

$0.00
Burned so far
0:00
Elapsed
52
Occurrences per year
$17,160
Annual cost
312
Person-hours per year

For a realistic figure use the fully loaded hourly cost of an attendee — salary plus employer taxes, benefits and overhead — rather than take-home pay. The Employee Cost Calculator works that number out. Everything here is calculated in your browser and nothing is uploaded.

What is the Meeting Cost Calculator?

The ByteTools Meeting Cost Calculator puts a number on the hour you are about to spend in a room. Enter how many people are attending, their blended hourly cost and how long the meeting runs, and it shows the total cost, the cost per minute and the total person-hours consumed.

  • Live cost counter driven by requestAnimationFrame, with pause and reset
  • Cost per meeting, cost per minute and person-hours consumed
  • Annualised cost for recurring meetings
  • Total person-hours consumed per year
  • Seven currency symbols
  • Runs entirely in your browser with no uploads

How to use the Meeting Cost Calculator

  1. 1

    Enter the number of attendees and their blended hourly cost to the business.

  2. 2

    Set how long the meeting runs in hours and minutes.

  3. 3

    Choose how often the meeting recurs to see the annualised cost.

  4. 4

    Read the total cost, cost per minute and annual person-hours.

  5. 5

    Press Start when the meeting begins to run the live cost counter.

About the Meeting Cost Calculator

The ByteTools Meeting Cost Calculator puts a number on the hour you are about to spend in a room. Enter how many people are attending, their blended hourly cost and how long the meeting runs, and it shows the total cost, the cost per minute and the total person-hours consumed.

The live counter is the part that changes behaviour: start it as the meeting begins and the running cost ticks upward in real time, updated smoothly with requestAnimationFrame. Put it on the shared screen and watch how quickly a routine status call turns into real money.

It also annualises the cost, so a weekly standup that feels trivial can be shown as its true yearly total. All figures are typed by you and calculated in your browser — no salaries or meeting details are uploaded anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

How do you calculate the cost of a meeting?

Multiply the number of attendees by their average hourly cost, then by the length of the meeting in hours. Six people at $55 an hour for one hour is 6 × 55 × 1 = $330. Doubling the attendee list doubles the cost, which is the whole argument for a shorter invite list.

What hourly rate should I use for attendees?

Use the fully loaded cost rather than the take-home salary — that means base pay plus payroll taxes, benefits and overhead, which typically lands 25% to 40% above salary alone. Our employee cost calculator will work that figure out for you.

Why does a recurring meeting cost so much?

Because the multiplier is brutal. A one-hour weekly meeting runs 52 times a year, so a $330 meeting is over $17,000 annually before anyone accounts for the context-switching either side of it. The annualised figure here makes that visible.

Does the live counter keep running if I switch tabs?

The counter measures elapsed real time, so the total stays accurate even if the browser throttles the animation while the tab is hidden. Pausing banks the time so far, and resuming continues from there.

Is any of this data sent anywhere?

No. Attendee counts, hourly rates and meeting lengths are only ever held in your browser, and nothing is uploaded or saved.

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