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The daily standup costs €30,625 a year.
Yours might be worse.

15 minutes a day. 7 people. Fully-loaded salaries. We pay for that meeting the way we pay for electricity, as if it's just there. The math is uncomfortable. Run it on your team.

Your team
Defaults reflect a typical European tech team. Adjust to match yours, numbers update live.
people
€ / year
minutes
per week
weeks / year
What it costs
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€40,222
Per year, your team's standup
That's roughly the fully-loaded salary of a junior developer, every year, paid for one daily meeting.
Per sprint (2 weeks)
€1,749
Per quarter
€10,056
Hours / year (whole team)
518
Per person, per year
€4,469
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How the math works

Nothing fancy. Hourly rate × time spent × people, annualised. We ask for fully-loaded salary directly, that's salary plus benefits, employer taxes, overhead, software, and the office chair the person sits on for the meeting.

hourly_rate = fully_loaded_salary ÷ (40 hrs/week × working_weeks_per_year) standup_hours_per_year = (standup_minutes ÷ 60) × standups_per_week × working_weeks_per_year annual_cost_per_person = hourly_rate × standup_hours_per_year total_team_cost = annual_cost_per_person × team_size

We assume a 40-hour week. If you only know base salary, multiply by ~1.3 before entering, McKinsey, EY, and Deloitte all publish fully-loaded multipliers in the 1.25–1.45 range for tech roles. Adjust to your reality.

A note on what this doesn't measure: context-switch cost, opportunity cost of when the standup happens (mid-morning interruption is more expensive than 8am), and the cost of bad decisions made because the standup didn't surface the right blocker. Those numbers are bigger. They're harder to put a precise value on. This calculator gives you the floor.