Meeting load

5 meeting hours a week is 250 hours a year.

At a $40 kept hour, that is $10,000. Your hour is probably not $40. Put the real salary in. Send the link to the person who owns the recurring invite, or just to yourself, before you accept next quarter’s series.

Annual salary Real hours per week, including the ones that “don’t count” Weeks you actually work Combined tax load, percent Round-trip commute, minutes Commute days per week Meeting hours per week

—Kept hour, after tax

—Kept hour after commute is counted as work

—Gross hourly, before tax

—Evening hours already sold (over 40 / week)

—Commute, valued at your kept hour

—Meetings, valued at your kept hour, per year

—Take-home, same tax load

The calculator stays free. The $39 sheet is a human check of the same numbers, not a locked file.

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A fair rule

Keep a meeting only if it names a decision, a draft, or a risk that moves this week. Status can be a paragraph. If the series cannot say which of the three it is, the year-cost above is the cost of politeness.

Cutting 5 hours to half is 125 hours back. That is the cleanest raise available without a new job.