About Meeting Price Tag

Why This Site Exists

Meeting Price Tag started with a simple observation: companies budget carefully for software, travel, and office space, but almost nobody budgets for meetings — even though meetings consume more salaried time than almost any other activity in a modern workplace.

A one-hour meeting with five people isn't "free" just because no invoice arrives afterward. It costs real money — salary, opportunity cost, and the focus tax everyone pays when their day is chopped into fragments. We built this calculator to make that invisible cost visible, in real time, while the meeting is actually happening.

The tool is deliberately simple. Enter how many people are in the room, what they earn on average, and press start. Watch the number climb. That's it. No sign-up, no data collection, no spreadsheet — just an honest number that helps teams ask a better question: was that meeting worth what it cost?

Who Runs Meeting Price Tag

Meeting Price Tag is an independent project created and maintained by Al Nevarez. It isn't backed by a consulting firm or a software vendor with a product to sell — it's a free utility built by someone who sat through one too many meetings that should have been an email.

Alongside the calculator, we publish articles about meeting culture, the economics of collaboration, and practical ways teams can reclaim their time. Everything on this site is written and reviewed by us, and we update articles when better data becomes available.

Our sister site, Meeting Or Not, tackles the question that comes before cost: should this even be a meeting in the first place?

How the Calculator Is Built

The calculator runs entirely in your browser. Salary figures are converted to a per-second rate using a standard 2,080-hour working year (52 weeks × 40 hours), multiplied by the number of attendees, and accumulated live while the timer runs. Nothing you type is sent to our servers — we never see your salary inputs, your attendee counts, or your results. You can read more about the exact formula in the How It Works section of the calculator page.

Numbers produced by the tool are estimates for awareness and discussion. They use base compensation only — real fully-loaded employee costs (benefits, payroll taxes, equipment, office space) typically run 1.25–1.4× base salary, so the true cost of your meeting is likely higher than the figure on screen.

Our Standards

When our articles cite statistics or research, we aim to attribute claims to their sources and to distinguish clearly between published research and our own analysis or opinion. If you spot an error, an unclear claim, or a number that deserves a better citation, please contact us — corrections make the site better for everyone.

This site is supported by advertising, which keeps the calculator free for everyone. Ads never influence what we write, and we don't accept payment for coverage or product placement in articles.