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What is Burn Rate?

Burn Rate is a live meeting cost calculator you run in the browser. Type in how many people are in the room and their average salary, hit Start, and a dollar figure climbs several times a second for as long as the meeting runs. Instead of a static total you read after the call, you see the cost of the meeting as a live counter the whole room can watch while it is still happening.

Most calculators hand you one number once the meeting is over, and that number is easy to ignore. Burn Rate answers "how much does this meeting cost" in real time, while there is still time to end the call early. Screen-share the tab or paste the link into the meeting chat and every attendee sees the same running total.

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How the meeting cost is calculated

The math is deliberately plain, so it holds up if someone in the room asks about it. Each salary is converted to a per-second rate over a standard 2,080-hour work year (40 hours a week, 52 weeks), then multiplied by the headcount. There are no invented multipliers and no "meeting tax". Ten people earning an average of $120,000 a year burn about $9.62 every minute they spend in a meeting together, or roughly $577 an hour.

Questions

How much does this meeting cost?

It depends on who is in the room. Enter the headcount and average salary and Burn Rate shows the exact running cost, updating live. As a rule of thumb, ten people earning $120,000 burn roughly $9.62 a minute, or about $577 an hour.

Is Burn Rate a meeting cost calculator?

Yes, with one difference: it is a live meeting cost calculator. Ordinary calculators give a static total after the meeting; Burn Rate counts up on screen during it, which is what actually makes a room wrap up.

How does the live counter work?

The cost of this meeting shows as a live counter driven by a per-second burn rate. Once you hit Start the figure ticks up in the browser several times a second, with no server involved.

Do I need an account or an install?

No. Burn Rate is a single static page with no login, no database, and no backend. Open the link and it runs.

How do I share the counter with the room?

Every setting lives in the link. Copy Link puts the current counter on your clipboard, and whoever opens it sees the same total already running from the same start time. Presenter mode strips the page down to the digits for a clean screen-share.