Employee Turnover Cost Calculator
Enter your average salary, recruitment and training costs per hire, an estimate of lost productivity while a role is vacant and refilled, and how many people resign each year — and see what turnover really costs, plus what a retention improvement would save.
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What the result means
Turnover costs are mostly invisible: the salary line disappears when someone leaves, but the recruiter fees, the manager hours spent interviewing, the months of below-full productivity while the replacement ramps up, and the knowledge that walks out the door all land elsewhere. Studies commonly estimate the total at 50–200% of the departing employee's annual salary.
The savings estimate models what happens if you prevent a share of this year's resignations — which is exactly what a well-run exit survey program is for. Learn what drives people out with the exit survey guide, fix the controllable causes, and the savings compound every year.