Procrastination Cost Calculator
Find out how much your daily procrastination costs in salary terms over a year.
worth of paid time spent not working, per year (9% of each day)
At this rate, procrastination is your most consistent work habit.
This tool calculates how much time you spend not working each day, expressed in salary terms over a year.
You are being paid for your time. Some of that time is spent on tasks. Some is spent staring at a browser tab, making tea, reading this website, or deciding whether to start the task now or in five minutes. This tool converts that time into a dollar figure, which is either motivating or just interesting, depending on how you look at it.
How we work it out
Your annual salary is converted to an hourly rate using a 40-hour week over 52 weeks. That rate is multiplied by your daily procrastination time to get a daily cost, which is then scaled to monthly and annual figures using your working days per year.
Questions
Is procrastination always a problem?
Not always. Breaks improve focus, and some degree of non-task time is normal and healthy. The tool is not making a moral judgement. It is just doing the maths.
What counts as procrastination?
Whatever you want it to. Time spent avoiding the thing you are supposed to be doing. Reading this is probably a reasonable estimate of the concept.
Since you're already here.