Question 1

What is Burnmeter and what does it do?

Accepted Answer

Burnmeter is a meeting cost calculator and meeting cost tracker for teams. It prices every meeting from your employees' real salaries, so a one-hour sync with six people shows up as a dollar figure rather than a calendar block. Meetings sync in from your calendar automatically, and Burnmeter settles each estimate against who actually attended and for how long — turning meeting spend into something you can see and act on.

Question 2

Who is Burnmeter for?

Accepted Answer

Engineering and product managers, People Ops and HR teams, agencies and consultants billing client time, and finance or operations leaders who own the meeting budget.

Question 3

How do I calculate the cost of a meeting?

Accepted Answer

Multiply each attendee's hourly rate (their salary divided by working hours per year) by the meeting's duration in hours, then sum across attendees. Burnmeter does this automatically from your team's real salary data, and updates it live during Google Meet calls.

Question 4

What is the real cost of a one-hour meeting?

Accepted Answer

It depends entirely on who's in the room. A one-hour meeting with six mid-level engineers can easily cost $300–$500 once you account for salary, not just the hour on the calendar. Burnmeter's free calculator above gives you a quick estimate for your own team.

Question 5

How can I reduce meeting costs?

Accepted Answer

Start by measuring what meetings actually cost, then cut recurring meetings with low attendance value, shorten default durations, and set a monthly meeting budget per team. Burnmeter's AI insights surface the specific meetings costing the most relative to their value.

Question 6

Does Burnmeter work with Google Calendar and Google Meet?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Import or sync meetings from Google Calendar, see live cost badges via the Chrome extension, and watch the running cost tick up in real time inside Google Meet with that same extension.

Question 7

Does Burnmeter work with Microsoft Teams and Outlook Calendar?

Accepted Answer

Yes, on the Pro plan. Connect Outlook Calendar once and Burnmeter keeps importing timed events automatically, prices each one from your team's real salaries, and then reconciles the estimate against Microsoft Teams attendance reports — the actual join and leave times per attendee, not the slot that was booked. Teams attendance is available for the meetings your connected account organized, which is a Microsoft Graph rule rather than a Burnmeter limit. You can connect Google and Microsoft side by side in the same workspace. The live in-call cost counter is a Chrome extension feature and currently works in Google Meet only.

Question 8

Is there a free meeting cost calculator?

Accepted Answer

Yes — the calculator on this page is free and doesn't require an account. It uses average role salaries; creating a free Burnmeter account lets you price meetings from your team's actual pay instead.

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