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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 are 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 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 context-dependent rather than judgement-heavy, and it's most of the time in most inboxes we've looked at early in beta. The remaining share is judgement calls that still come back to you. This is our own working assumption rather than a measured industry figure, and we haven't yet published usage data from our own beta to replace it with a real one.
The 20% review share
We have not measured this figure. Every draft still waits for a one-tap review until its category earns level 2, and only four categories (meeting_confirmation, scheduling_ack, simple_ack, routing_filing) can ever reach auto-send — see /what-you-still-do for the full case. Twenty percent is our own guess at what that ongoing review still costs you, not a study of it. 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, the 20% review share we subtract back out, and every preset's starting numbers are our own assumptions, not citations. 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 →That's ~312 net hours a year. Get them back.
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