Welcome to the Meeting Cost Calculator!
Imagine a leadership team of five people, each earning $100,000 per year, and each spending about 15 hours a week in meetings. Even looking only at this group, the meeting time adds up to roughly $4,076 per week, or about $212,000 per year in labor cost. If you cut meeting time (or wasted meeting time) by 40%, that’s approximately $85,000 saved annually.

A 40% reduction may sound aggressive, but it can be realistic. Research cited by the Wharton Center for Applied Research indicates that CEOs average around 17 hours per week in meetings, senior executives about 23 hours, and middle managers roughly 11 hours. Those same senior and middle managers also report that only about 56% of meetings are truly productive.

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