Your Hourly Value

Divide your total money earned by your total time spent.

For example, let’s say you spend 2,500 hours per year earning money:

• If you make $46,226/year, your time is worth $18.49/hour. This is the 2014 median income for women in the United States.
• If you m...

Look over your to-do list and assign every task a value, such as a dollar-per-hour amount that you might have to pay someone else to do it. Score tasks from $10 per hour for administrative tasks up to $10,000 per hour for high-level strategy and sales-related tasks.

By giving dollar...

We all have some idea of how much our time is worth. On extreme ends, it is easy to know if a task is worth your time. For instance, if someone offers you $0.07 per hour and another $7,000 per hour, you would have no problem to decide.
However, in the middle of the time-value spec...