Nobody budgets for the standup.
Recurring meetings, tool sprawl, interruptions, the hire that didn't work out — real money that never appears on an invoice. Put a number on it. Share the receipt.
A recurring meeting →COST OF
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Weekly team meeting
10 people × $92.08/h$921/h
Per meeting · 60 min$921
Weekly48×/yr
People-hours per year480 h
TOTAL · PER YEAR
$44,200
WHAT THAT MEANS
That's 0.3 full-time salaries spent on this one meeting.
480 people-hours a year — 60 working days of someone's life.
While it runs, it burns $15.35 a minute.
COUPON
Every attendee you drop saves $4,420/yr.
Every 5 minutes you cut saves $3,683/yr.
Make it every 2 weeks and keep $22,100/yr.
Assumptions: fully-loaded ×1.3, 1,920 h/yr
THANK YOU FOR YOUR MONEY
Pick a cost
- A recurring meeting $17,680/yr People × salary × minutes × how often. The weekly sync has an annual price. 8 people · 30 min · weeklyCalculate →
- Your SaaS stack $12,660/yr Every seat on every tool, added up for the year — and the three lines that eat most of it. 25 people · 6 toolsCalculate →
- Context switching $406,600/yr Each interruption costs a recovery. Multiply by people and by working days. 8 people · 6 interruptions a dayCalculate →
- A bad hire $154,100 Salary paid, recruiting again, the ramp-up, the team's time. One number for the hire that didn't work out. 6 months · then a replacementCalculate →
- Downtime $9,220/yr Your uptime promise, turned into hours per year, then into revenue and the people who fight the fire. 99.9% · 8.8 hours a yearCalculate →
How the numbers are made
Every calculator is a plain formula, shown line by line on the receipt. Presets are medians you can override; assumptions are editable.
- Hourly cost
- annual salary × fully-loaded multiplier ÷ working hours per year. The multiplier covers employer taxes, benefits and equipment.
- Annualized
- everything is scaled to one year, so a 30-minute meeting and a monthly subscription can sit on the same receipt.
- Presets
- median gross salaries by country and role, in local currency, from public statistics and large salary surveys. Change any of them.
- Nothing leaves your browser
- no backend, no accounts. The link encodes the inputs — that's the only place your numbers live.
Sources
- ~23 minutes to get back to interrupted work Gloria Mark's UC Irvine field studies (Mark, Gonzalez & Harris, CHI 2005; Gallup interview, 2006): people took about 23 minutes on average to return to interrupted work, usually after handling two other things first, and switched activities roughly every 3 minutes.
- Unnecessary meetings ≈ $25K per employee a year Rogelberg (UNC Charlotte) with Otter.ai, 2022, 632-person survey: about $25,000 per employee per year in unnecessary meetings; employees averaged 17.7 meetings a week. Doodle's 2019 State of Meetings report estimated ~$399B a year lost in the US to poorly organised meetings — a vendor extrapolation, not government data.
- Fully-loaded multiplier ×1.3 U.S. BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (March 2026): benefits and payroll taxes are about 30% of total compensation, so the employer's cost is ~1.4× wages before overhead such as equipment and software. 1.25–1.4 is a defensible range; many European employer-tax regimes land in it too.
- A bad hire: $14,900 on average, ~20–30% of salary to replace CareerBuilder/Harris Poll 2017: employers lost an average of $14,900 per bad hire (self-reported, 2017 dollars). SHRM Foundation: direct replacement costs 50–60% of salary, total turnover cost 90–200%; Center for American Progress (2012) puts a typical replacement near 20% of salary. The '30% of first-year earnings' figure often attributed to the U.S. Department of Labor has no locatable primary source — treat it as a rule of thumb.
- 1,920 working hours a year 48 working weeks × 40 hours, net of roughly four weeks of holidays and leave (U.S. payroll convention is 2,080 h = 52 × 40; OECD actual hours worked are ~1,800 for U.S. workers). Change it to match your contracts — 1,700 to 2,000 are all defensible.
- SaaS spend: $5K–$9.5K per employee a year SaaS-management vendors report $4.8K–$9.5K of SaaS spend per employee per year (Zylo 2025/2026, Productiv 2024, Vertice 2026); customer bases skew mid-size and enterprise, and a large share of paid seats goes unused.