See what a meeting really costs — attendees times hourly rate times duration, with a live per-minute running total.. Meeting Cost Calculator is a free online tool from the ToolsRift Office & Productivity collection. It runs entirely in your browser — nothing to install, no signup, and your data never leaves your device.
Enter how many people attend, their average hourly rate and how long the meeting runs. The cost updates instantly, and you can start the live timer during the meeting itself.
A fully loaded rate is more honest than raw salary: take the annual salary, add roughly 25-35% for employer taxes, benefits and overhead, then divide by about 1,800 working hours. Using bare salary understates a meeting's true cost by a third.
Start it at the beginning of a real meeting and the cost ticks upward second by second at the rate you entered. Projected on a screen it is a famously effective way to keep a status meeting short.
It multiplies the single-meeting cost by how often the meeting recurs in a year — 52 for weekly, 26 for fortnightly, 12 for monthly. A one-hour weekly meeting with eight people is usually the number that surprises people most.