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Wasted Money Meeting Calculator
See the money and time a company wastes in meetings: salary × attendees × duration.
That annual figure is the standup tax.
Daily standup cost by salary and team size, or the async standup playbook.
The standup tax, in plain numbers
Recurring status meetings look cheap because they are on the calendar. This wasted money meeting calculator prices them like payroll: fully-loaded salary × attendees × duration × how often the company meets.
We call that the standup tax. A 15-minute daily standup for six engineers at $100/hour is about $36,000 a year before anyone overruns the Zoom. Add the usual 1.2× overrun and you have funded a mid-level engineer to ship instead of narrate. The same math scales from one team to every team in the meeting, which is the company cost of that wasted time.
Git Digest replaces that ritual with team GitHub and Slack commit digests. The source of truth is what landed in git, not what people remember in a circle. Git Digest is not Gitingest, and it is not a tool that turns a repository into text for an LLM.
Company cost of time wasted in meetings
People look for a Harvard meeting calculator when they want a number for time wasted in meetings. This page does not republish a Harvard study, and it does not invent a percentage. It uses your salary, your attendees, and your duration, so the wasted money is yours.
You do not need a script. Set the number of teams when several groups share the meeting. One team shows the squad cost. Many teams show the company cost of the same ritual: the annual amount of money wasted on that meeting.
How the calculator works
Annual cost = teams × attendees × meetings per week × (minutes ÷ 60) × 48 working weeks × hourly salary × attendance × overrun. Vacation is already baked in as 48 weeks, not 52.
Use a fully-loaded hourly salary (compensation plus benefits and overhead), not the sticker wage. For a $150k engineer that is often $75 to $120/hour. Tune attendees and duration for standups, planning, or the weekly sync that never dies.
From the number to a smaller meeting
The daily standup cost table prices a 15-minute ritual by salary and team size. The async standup playbook is the next step: cadence, timezones, and blockers, with GitHub commit digests in Slack or email instead of another status meeting.
Wasted money calculator FAQ
Common questions about wasted meeting money, company meeting time, and replacing status meetings with digests.
How does this wasted money meeting calculator work?
Multiply attendees by meeting duration, weekly frequency, a fully-loaded hourly salary, and 48 working weeks. Optional attendance and overrun factors model no-shows and meetings that run long. The result is the annual amount of money wasted on that meeting: the standup tax.
What is the standup tax?
The standup tax is the fully-loaded salary cost of a recurring status meeting. A 15-minute daily standup for six engineers at $100/hour is about $36,000 a year before overrun. Git Digest replaces that ritual with commit digests in Slack or email.
How do I see the amount of money wasted on a meeting?
You do not need a custom script. Enter teams, attendees, minutes, and a fully-loaded hourly salary. The calculator returns the annual amount of money wasted on that meeting.
Can this price wasted meeting time for a whole company?
Yes. Set the number of teams, the people in the meeting, and how often you meet. The annual figure is the company cost of that recurring meeting, the standup tax, before you add planning or the weekly sync.
Is this a Harvard meeting calculator?
People search for a Harvard meeting calculator when they want a number for time wasted in meetings. This page does not republish a Harvard study, and it does not invent a statistic. Enter salary, attendees, and duration to see the money and time your company spends.
Can Git Digest replace our standup?
Git Digest turns GitHub activity into team commit summaries delivered to Slack and email, so engineering leads get an async standup from shipped code instead of another calendar invite.
Is Git Digest a repo ingest tool like Gitingest?
No. Gitingest turns a repository into text for LLMs. Git Digest is a team product: daily or weekly GitHub commit digests for Slack and email that replace status meetings.
Replace the standup with GitHub digests
Connect GitHub and get daily or weekly team commit summaries in Slack and email. Same alignment, none of the standup tax.
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