About Ur Meeting Cost

How it works

The calculator takes a meeting duration, the number of attendees, and each attendee's salary (annual or hourly). It returns the fully-loaded cost to the business for the time you spend.

Hourly rate, the honest version

For an annual salary, the hourly rate is calculated against the time a person actually works, not the wall-clock hours in a year. The default assumption: a 38-hour week across 46 working weeks per year, after four weeks of annual leave and roughly two weeks of public holidays.

That hourly figure is then multiplied by a 1.30 loading factor, which approximates the on-costs an employer pays on top of salary: superannuation, payroll tax, leave loading, WorkCover, and a share of overheads. Different industries run higher than 1.30 (banks and government often hit 1.45 to 1.50); the calculator uses a conservative median.

For an hourly salary input, the same loading is applied, so the result is the loaded cost regardless of how the input was entered.

What's stored

Each submission records the meeting duration, the number of attendees, the salary value, and the requester's IP address. No names, no employer, no identifying detail. The stored data drives the aggregate Insights page, nothing else.

Tech stack

Backend

• Python, Flask, served by gunicorn behind nginx
• SQLite via SQLAlchemy for submission history
• Dash (Plotly + React under the hood) for the Insights page
• /healthz endpoint exposes git SHA, uptime, and the current cost assumptions, useful for monitoring or any external probe

Frontend

• HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript
• The visual treatment shares the palette and typography family of kipjordan.com