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What is your inbox actually costing you?
The average worker receives 117 emails a day (Microsoft WorkLab, 2025, measured across Microsoft 365 tenants). Plug in your own numbers below to see what that costs you specifically, in hours and dollars, this year — sources and assumptions at the bottom of the page.
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Where these numbers come from — no black box.
The time
Hours/day × working days = hours/week on email. Add recurring reports and newsletter/news reading, then multiply by 52 weeks. No hidden multipliers.
The $40/hr default
A rough stand-in for a typical knowledge-worker salary — about $83k/year divided by 2,080 working hours. Slide it to match your own rate; the rest of the math updates with it.
The 60% reclaim
Triage — read, classify, decide, draft a first pass — is repetitive and context-dependent rather than judgment-heavy, and it's most of the time in most inboxes we've looked at early in beta. The remaining share is judgment calls that still come back to you. This is our own working assumption, not a measured industry figure, and we haven't yet published usage data from our own beta to replace it with a real one.
Want the deeper argument for why triage — not raw hours — is the real cost? Read the real cost of email overload.
Sources & assumptions: the 117-emails-a-day figure above is Microsoft WorkLab's own 2025 telemetry; the 2.2 hrs/day default and the 60% reclaim rate are our own assumptions, not citations. Every number this calculator uses, sourced or assumed, is on /the-numbers.
That's ~390 hours a year. Get them back.
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