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The cost of the room

Meeting Cost Calculator

Pick the length, how often it runs, and who is in the room. The answer comes in hours first, and in dollars once you say who is there. Share the link, or carry the numbers into a full diagnosis.

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Three choices. The receipt updates as you go.

01How long?
02How often?
03Who is in the room?
Support and coordinationAdmin, coordinators, assistants
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0
Team memberAnalysts, engineers, designers, specialists
$330 / meeting
5
ManagerRuns a team or a function
$73 / meeting
1
Senior leaderDirector, VP, head of
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0
ExecutiveC-suite, president, owner
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0

We started you with one manager and the rest as team members. Adjust to match your room. Dollar estimates use published U.S. salary medians until you customize them.

Cost assumptionsPublished U.S. salary medians, loaded for benefitsCustomize
Support and coordinationAdmin, coordinators, assistants
$33 an hour, loaded
Team memberAnalysts, engineers, designers, specialists
$66 an hour, loaded
ManagerRuns a team or a function
$73 an hour, loaded
Senior leaderDirector, VP, head of
$100 an hour, loaded
ExecutiveC-suite, president, owner
$147 an hour, loaded

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: May 2025 national salaries, March 2026 employer-cost split.

  • Support and coordination: $47,440 a year, the median for office and administrative support occupations, $22.81 an hour.
  • Team member: $95,970 a year, the average of two medians, business and financial operations ($39.74 an hour) and computer and mathematical occupations ($52.54 an hour).
  • Manager: $105,770 a year, the median salary for general and operations managers.
  • Senior leader: $145,260 a year, the mean salary across all management occupations, since senior roles sit in the upper tail of that group.
  • Executive: $213,990 a year, the median salary for chief executives.

Loaded cost adds benefits: salaries were 69.9% of total compensation in March 2026, so each hour costs the salary divided by 2,080 hours and by 0.699.

Meeting receiptLive estimate
MONTHLY IMPACT24 person-hours
6 people×60 minutes×4 meetings
ESTIMATED PEOPLE COSTabout $1,600$400 each meeting · $19,000 a year

A ballpark using published U.S. compensation data. Not your payroll.

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