Your life has a burn rate.
How much does one hour cost — including sleep? Real spending, country benchmarks, and your lifestyle.
Spending breakdown, overspend alerts, printable PDF, and a 90-day AI plan — what you get after checkout.
TimeCost WDI benchmarks: DE ~€2.90/hour (€25,090/year), UK ~£2.81/hour (£24,256/year). Same method — different currencies.
WDI data: €10,661 consumption per person per year → €1.23 per hour. Compared with Croatia (€1.47) and Germany (€2.90).
One question before you buy: how many life hours does it cost? From coffee to subscriptions — scale, not guilt.
Hourly wage applies while you work. Life burn rate runs 24/7. Here is how to compare them without bad math.
Macro benchmark from World Bank data: $52,428 consumption per person per year → $6.07 per hour on the TimeCost scale.
World Development Indicators → annual consumption per person → ÷12 ÷720. A macro reference, not a “typical person.”
WDI benchmark: €25,090 consumption per person per year → €2.90 per hour. A reference point, not “Berlin rent.”
The formula is simple. What matters is how completely you mapped your spending — data completeness, not math accuracy.
30 × 24 = 720 is not a physical law — it is one ruler for comparing months, people, and countries.
Your life has a burn rate. Turn monthly spending into the cost of one calendar hour — including sleep, commute, and Netflix.