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Estimate the True Cost of Employee Turnover

Traditional calculators stop at recruiting and vacancy. This one also estimates the organizational knowledge and context that leave with a person — using published benchmarks and documented research, with every assumption visible and editable.

  • Prefilled with researched defaults
  • About 2 minutes
  • Full results with no email required

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Tell us just enough to initialize the estimate. Everything else is pre-filled with researched defaults you can review and adjust on the next step.

Prefilled with the $120,000 role benchmark (a directional placeholder pending a BLS OEWS lookup). Edit it to use your organization's figure for an accurate estimate.

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Common questions

How do you calculate the cost of employee turnover?
You sum recruiting and sourcing, vacancy capacity loss, onboarding and training, and ramp-up productivity loss using published benchmarks (SHRM cost-per-hire and time-to-fill, BLS employer compensation), then add the knowledge and context costs most calculators omit — knowledge transfer, time to rebuild historical context, institutional-memory reconstruction, and documented project disruption. Every assumption is visible and editable.
What is the true cost of losing an employee?
Beyond recruiting and vacancy, a departure takes institutional and tribal knowledge with it — the context, history, and working relationships the person carried. The true cost includes the labor spent transferring that knowledge and rebuilding the context that was never documented, which is why a flat salary multiple usually understates it.
Is this attrition cost calculator free?
Yes. The full results, category breakdown, assumptions, and methodology are available with no account and no email required.
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