Enter attendees, average cost and duration — get the true price of that meeting, per occurrence and per year.
Rule of thumb: annual salary ÷ 2,000 hours × 1.3 (with overhead)
Per meeting
$300
Per year
$15,000
Killing (or halving) this recurring meeting returns $7,500–$15,000 a year.
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Start freeMeeting cost = number of attendees x average hourly cost x duration in hours. For salaried staff, divide annual salary (plus ~30% overhead) by ~2,000 working hours to get an hourly cost. Recurring meetings multiply by frequency — a weekly 60-minute meeting runs ~50 times a year.
A useful test: would you approve this meeting as a purchase order at its annual price? A weekly 8-person, 1-hour meeting at $50/hour average costs about $20,000 a year — many teams cut or shorten it once they see that number.
Replace status meetings with an async daily digest (tools like FocusUp generate one automatically from tracked work), keep decision meetings small, and default to 25/50-minute slots instead of 30/60.