Calculating your investment wage and the opportunity cost of your time - Personal Investment Management > Financial Planning... Calculating your investment wage and the opportunity cost of your time - Personal Investment Management > Financial Planning and Investment Management Personal Efficiency Articles - Financial Articles, Your personal investment contribution is the total value that you add less the opportunity cost of your time. When divided by the hours you spend, you can estimate an hourly wage for your personal contribution. Obviously, the objective is to have a high investment wage. Unfortunately, for most people their wage is likely to be negative. The more time they spend, the more they lose, because they do poorly with their strategies and/or they could be doing something else of greater value with their time. in Public bookmarkswith calculatingcostinvestmentmanagementopportunitypersonaltimewage