Meeting cost calculator
A one-hour status meeting, twenty people, $120k average salary — that’s exactly $60,000 a year in salary spent on one recurring calendar hold. Recess prices every invite before you send it, and tells you when an async update would do the same job for free.
How much does this meeting actually cost?
Estimated annual cost if this repeats weekly
$60,000
Assumes a $120k average fully-loaded salary and a 40-hour work week.
The Math
A single one-off meeting is cheap. A recurring one isn’t — it’s the same cost, every week, forever, until someone finally asks “wait, why are we still doing this.” Recess flags any meeting marked as recurring and shows its annualized cost right in the invite.
$60,000
annual cost of one weekly 1-hour status meeting, 20 attendees, $120k average salary
11.4 hrs
average hours per employee per week in meetings with more than 6 people
62%
of recurring meetings surveyed users said could be an async update instead
How It Works
01
You draft the invite
Recess reads attendee count, duration, and recurrence straight from your calendar draft.
02
We show you the number
A live cost estimate, annualized if it's recurring, right next to the send button.
03
We suggest the alternative
For status updates and check-ins, a one-take recorded update plus a threaded comment section — no calendar hold required.
“We killed four recurring meetings in the first week just because the number was sitting right there in the invite. Nobody wanted to be the one who couldn’t justify $40,000 a year for a status check.”
The Async Alternative
Not every meeting deserves to die — a real design review needs a room. But a status check where one person talks for twenty minutes and the rest watch doesn’t need to be live. Record a three-minute update, drop it in the thread, let people comment on their own time. Recess tracks who’s watched and who hasn’t, so “did everyone see this” stops being a guess.
Pricing
Individual
$8/mo
Cost calculator on every invite you send, unlimited async updates.
Team
$14/user/mo
Recurring-meeting audits across the org calendar, async view tracking, Slack notifications.
Company
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Recess prices out every meeting invite by attendee count and salary before you send it, and suggests an async update instead. Fewer, better meetings.
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