Meeting Cost Calculator
Work out what a meeting actually costs based on attendee count, average salary, and duration — per meeting, per week, and per year. A useful sanity check before booking the next recurring call.
Attendees
Duration (minutes)
Avg. annual salary (USD)
Cost per meeting
$216
≈ $10,385 per year and 240 person-hours, assuming 48 working weeks.
Based on salary cost only ($43/hour per person at 2,080 working hours a year). Loaded cost — benefits, equipment, office — typically adds another 25-40%.
Using the number
The point isn't to kill meetings — it's to price them. A $600-a-week status call is worth it if it prevents one $6,000 misunderstanding a quarter; it isn't if it exists because nobody cancelled it. Two cheap wins: default to 25 minutes instead of 60 (most agendas fit), and cut the attendee list before cutting the meeting — cost scales linearly with headcount.
The most expensive meeting is the sales call that never gets followed up. FollowClose makes sure every call you've already paid for turns into a follow-up sequence.
Try it with your next call →