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title: "The Money-Time Exchange"
number: 19
statement: "When is an hour of volunteering worth more than giving an hour’s wages?"
progress: "A framework that estimates the value of volunteer time by role and skill, checked against organizations’ own assessments."
conditions: []
status: open
bounty: "Unfunded. The Question Bounties program will attach prizes once it is funded."
---

## Why it matters

Volunteer time can help in different ways and also takes coordination. The proposed study would compare the value of roles with the cost of supporting them; it does not assume those answers are already known.

## Where to start

Ask organizations what an hour of each kind of volunteer help is worth to them, and compare that with the volunteer’s wage. See [Time Charitology](/programs/time-charitology/).