Who works on a major decision
Turn on every room that touches a decision like this today. Pay is base salary; the calculator adds benefits and employer costs using the BLS ratio for management, business and financial jobs (×1.481), then divides by 2,080 working hours.
| Room | People | Base pay, each | Loaded hourly | Source |
|---|
How a decision gets made today
For one major decision, from the question to a signature. These start at the preset you picked; change anything that doesn't match your company.
The same decision through the engine
The engine runs the rooms before anyone meets. People still check their data, read their own page and sign, so all of that time is counted.
Your year
Where every hour comes from
People × hours × loaded hourly rate, for one decision. Nothing else is added.
Where the defaults come from
Pay defaults are US national medians from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. The loading ratio is from the BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026.
| Used for | BLS occupation (code) | Median base pay |
|---|---|---|
| Executive team (mid-market) | Chief executives (11-1011) | $213,990 |
| Management layer | General and operations managers (11-1021) | $105,770 |
| Finance team | Financial and investment analysts (13-2051) | $102,740 |
| Strategy or innovation team | Management analysts (13-1111) | $101,860 |
| Working teams | Business and financial operations occupations (13-0000) | $82,660 |
| Legal and HR | Average of lawyers (23-1011, $159,670) and human resources managers (11-3121, $149,280) | $154,475 |
| Loading for benefits and employer costs | ECEC, private industry, management, business and financial occupations: $88.63 total compensation per hour ÷ $59.85 wages | ×1.481 |
Your input Board time is valued at an hourly equivalent you set; it starts at the executive rate. BLS publishes chief executive pay only up to $239,200, so the startup and enterprise executive figures are starting points to replace with your own, not BLS numbers. Equity and bonuses are left out on purpose, which keeps every result a floor.
Market The prep check uses Mankins, Brahm and Caimi (Harvard Business Review, 2014), who traced about 300,000 hours a year behind one weekly executive meeting, of which 7,000 were the meeting itself: roughly 40 hours of preparation for every hour in the room.