Calculate the real cost of your meeting with a live cost ticker. See annual waste from unnecessary meetings. Find out if your meeting could have been an email.
A marketing director in San Francisco attends 6 hours of meetings daily and wants to show leadership the true cost of their meeting culture.
Result: Calculator shows her team's weekly meetings cost $14,400 in salary — the data triggers a company-wide meeting audit policy.
A project manager in New York bills clients hourly and wants to calculate the true cost of a mandatory 90-minute all-hands with 14 team members.
Result: Meeting cost revealed as $1,890 in billable time — she proposes a 30-minute async video update instead for future all-hands.
A tech startup in Austin has a daily 30-minute standup with 12 engineers and the CEO wonders if it is actually worth the daily interruption.
Result: Annual cost of daily standup calculated at $156,000 — team switches to async text standup and saves significant focus time.
Studies estimate that unnecessary meetings cost US businesses over $37 billion annually. A one-hour meeting with 10 people earning $50/hour costs $500 in salary alone — before lost productivity.
Meeting cost equals the number of attendees multiplied by their average hourly salary, multiplied by meeting duration in hours. Our tool calculates this in real-time as the meeting progresses.
Keep meetings under 30 minutes, invite only essential participants, set clear agendas, use async communication for updates, and consider whether a quick Slack message or email would suffice.
Our email score rates how likely your meeting could have been an email or Slack message based on attendee count, duration, and typical meeting purpose patterns.
Yes! After calculating, you can share a meeting cost card showing exactly how much your meeting cost — great for making the case for fewer meetings.
Yes — every FreeFixo tool, including the Free Meeting Cost Calculator, is 100% free with no paywall, no premium tier, and no usage limits. You do not need to create an account, enter a credit card, or share an email.