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Staff turnover cost

What turnover is costing you.

Enter a few numbers and see the cost of losing new starters, and what keeping even a few of them would be worth. No login needed, and nothing here is saved.

If you hire across several sites, some line managers and buddies may not have a work inbox. They will soon be able to get their check-ins by WhatsApp instead of email. New starters get theirs by email.

An estimate is fine. If you are not sure, leave this blank and use the percentage below.

This starts at 20%, an assumption and not a published rate. Change it to your own figure.

A conservative estimate, and yours to change.

Starter costs US$780 a year. Prices exclude sales tax. Chosen to match your new starters a year; pick a larger plan to compare.

The figures below update as you type.

The headline

Losing one new starter costs you about US$31,600. At your numbers, early leavers cost you US$94,800 a year.

Keeping even 25% of them would save you US$23,700 a year, against US$780 a year for the Starter plan. That is 30 times your outlay.

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Where the US$31,600 per leaver goes

Recruitment (advertising, agency or in-house time, interviews)US$6,000
Onboarding and admin (contract, IT, kit, first-week setup)US$2,000
Training and the time colleagues spend teachingUS$4,000
Lost productivity while the new person ramps upUS$10,000
The gap while the seat is empty (cover, overtime, delays)US$3,200
Manager time across the whole cycleUS$2,000
Morale drag and an unhappy leaver complaining to colleaguesUS$2,400
Lost knowledge, rework and errors during the gapUS$2,000
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Each line starts at our own share of salary and moves with it. A line you type stays at your figure until you reset the breakdown.

Estimates, not a promise. The cost build-up is our own, not a published figure, and every line is yours to change. Bookmark this page to rerun it as your numbers change.

Once you are signed in, the same calculator uses your organisation’s real starters automatically. See pricing or see the demo.

What turnover is costing you · Accolgo