How much is this meeting costing?
The hourly cost of a room full of senior engineers is enormous, and almost no one runs the math before the calendar invite goes out. Add your meeting below — the cost ticks in real time.
$411
$13.69/min · 6 people in the room
Who's in the room?
$ /yr
4
$ /yr
1
$ /yr
1
Length & cadence
30m
If this happens Weekly… $21k 52 meetings × $411 = 156 person-hours/year
What you could buy with that money each year
- 12× Herman Miller Aeron chair $1,700 each
- 13× 5K Studio Display $1,599 each
- 8× MacBook Pro M-series upgrade $2,499 each
- 11× A conference ticket $1,800 each
The math, briefly
- Hourly cost = annual salary × 1.4 (benefits, payroll tax, equipment, overhead) ÷ 2,080 working hours per year.
- Default salaries are median Big-Tech fully-loaded for each role. Edit any salary directly if your team is paid more or less.
- Daily cadence assumes 250 working days (no weekends, no holidays).
- The "what you could buy" panel uses current US retail prices for things engineers actually consider.