Cost Per Minute Calculator
Work out the cost per minute from a total cost and duration.
Also shows cost per second, per hour, and per day, plus how many minutes each dollar buys.
Cost per minute answers a question that comes up more often than you would think. A phone plan charges by the call, a contractor bills by the hour, a cloud server runs by the second, an arcade sells time by the token. Putting all of those on the same footing, dollars per minute, lets you compare things that were never quoted the same way.
The math is just division. Take the total cost and divide it by the total time in minutes. If a two-hour service call costs 180 dollars, that is 180 divided by 120, or 1.50 per minute. The only trick is getting the time into minutes first, which is why this calculator lets you enter seconds, minutes, or hours and handles the conversion.
From that one rate it also rolls out the others: cost per second, cost per hour, and cost across a full eight-hour day, plus the flip side, how many minutes one dollar buys you. That last figure is handy for prepaid and pay-as-you-go situations, where you are really asking how much time your money gets.
A word on what to include. The cost you enter should be the all-in number for that block of time. If a freelancer charges 90 dollars an hour but only bills you for 40 minutes of actual work, enter 60 dollars and 40 minutes, not the hourly rate. Garbage in, garbage out applies here as much as anywhere. The dollar sign is just a label, so the same math works in any currency.
How we build and check this calculator
This calculator runs entirely in your browser, so the numbers you enter stay on your device. The math behind it is written by hand and tested against worked examples and standard references before the page goes live.
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