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Tab Cost Calculator

Estimate the weekly and yearly salary cost of browser context switching with adjustable assumptions and a transparent formula.

Enter your work pattern

This is a scenario calculator, not a research claim. Change the inputs and assumptions to match the person or team you are modeling.

Gross annual compensation used to estimate an hourly labor cost.
Your typical tab count during active work.
How often you leave the current task or working context.
Include time to reorient, retrieve context, and resume useful work.

Adjustable assumptions

All constants are editable
Used to scale hourly switching loss into a weekly estimate.
Used in the hourly rate and yearly cost calculations.
The model scales tab-related friction relative to this chosen baseline.
Your estimate of how much switching loss is caused by browser organization rather than meetings, messages, or other factors.

Estimated cost of tab chaos

Weekly cost$0

0 lost hours per week

Yearly cost$0

Across 0 work weeks

Formula, shown transparently

60 converts minutes to hours, and 100 converts a percentage to a decimal. They are unit conversions, not behavioral assumptions.

1. Hourly labor costsalary ÷ (work weeks × work hours)
2. Tab-load factoraverage open tabs ÷ reference tabs
3. Lost hours per weekswitches/hour × minutes/switch ÷ 60 × hours/week × tab-load factor × attribution share
4. Weekly costlost hours/week × hourly labor cost
5. Yearly costweekly cost × work weeks/year

Interpret the result as a scenario. The tab-load factor and attribution percentage are explicit modeling choices. Set tab-load to 1.0 by making reference tabs equal average tabs if you want a switch-only estimate.

NEXTTurn the estimate into a cleaner workspace.

Run the Browser Workspace Audit to find the tabs, profiles, extensions, and switching triggers creating the drag. Or inspect how Yap Computer turns spoken context into filed work.

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