Hey everyone 👋 Guillaume here, founder of Or & Zon (organic bedding, GOTS-certified — no greenwashed claims, just the paperwork). I built The Sleep Tax because I kept seeing sleep framed as a "wellness vibe" when RAND has been quietly publishing research showing it's a multi-billion-dollar economic problem. At the individual level, that's thousands of dollars per year in lost productivity and healthcare exposure — and almost nobody runs the math on themselves. So I made it accessible. Free calculator, no email required. Plug in your hourly wage, hours slept, and disturbed nights per week — get your personal annual Sleep Tax. The defaults ($35/hr, 6h sleep, 2 bad nights/wk) hit $4,328/year. I expected a number. I didn't expect that one. 🛏️ Calculates lost productivity + healthcare exposure 📊 Backed by RAND Europe (2016), CDC, and Kessler et al. Sleep (2011) 📤 Downloads a shareable PNG result card 🔗 Embeddable on any site, free, no attribution required Three things I'd love your take on: Does the dollar figure match your real-world experience? Is the methodology readable enough — or do you want it more academic? What input am I missing? (Caffeine? Screen time? Partner snoring?) If there's a sleep cost the calculator misses, drop it in the thread — I'm shipping v2 based on this feedback. Sleep on something honest, starting with the math

The Sleep Tax

Sleep is priceless? Let's price it anyway.

Sleep is priceless? Let's price it anyway.