Calculator
What does your inbox cost 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 are at the bottom of the page.
Your numbers
Per year
Show the maths
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 placeholder for the value of your time, yours to adjust. Move the slider to match your own rate, and the rest of the maths follows it.
The 60% reclaim
Triage (read, classify, decide, draft a first pass) is repetitive and depends on context. It needs little judgement. In most inboxes we have looked at in early beta, it is most of the time. The remaining share is judgement calls that still come back to you. This is our own working assumption, not a measured industry figure. We have not yet published usage data from our own beta to replace it.
The 20% review share
We have not measured this figure. Every draft waits for a one-tap review until its category earns level 2. Only four categories can ever reach auto-send: meeting_confirmation, scheduling_ack, simple_ack and routing_filing. See /what-you-still-do for the full case. Twenty percent is our own guess at what that ongoing review costs you. It is not a study. Move the slider to your own number; this default exists to be replaced. See what you still do for the full case.
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 60% reclaim rate is our own assumption, not a citation. So is the 20% review share we subtract back out. So are the starting numbers for every preset. Every number this calculator uses, sourced or assumed, is on /the-numbers.
Starting points
Or start from a role like yours.
Founders
Investor updates, customer replies, and no EA yet. Start from a founder's week.
See the Founders preset →Team managers
More 1:1s than hours in the day. Start from a team manager's week.
See the Team managers preset →Working parents
Two inboxes that can't mix. Start from a working parent's week.
See the Working parents preset →Consultants & freelancers
Three client inboxes and invoices nobody else chases. Start from a consultant's week.
See the Consultants & freelancers preset →Working carers
A parent's appointments, the surgery, and a full-time job. Start from a working carer's week.
See the Working carers preset →That's ~312 net hours a year. Get them back.
Get your time back.
Beemy is in private beta. We send invites in rolling batches. We cannot promise a date. When your invite arrives, connect Gmail. Beemy sorts your inbox in that first session.
You're in the hive. You get no email now. We write to you once, when your invite is ready.
While you waitLast updated