Employee Turnover Cost Calculator

The agency fee is the number everybody argues about, because it is the one that arrives on an invoice. On the figures this ships with it is $4,000, and it is not the largest line on the page.

The largest line is the twenty-six weeks before the replacement was any good — $7,875 of work that did not get done, or got done worse, while somebody found their feet. Nobody bills you for it, nobody signs it off, and it is bigger than the recruiter.

Five lines, added up honestly: the days the desk sat empty, finding somebody, settling them in, the ramp, and the exit itself. Each with its share of the total, and the biggest one named in words rather than left for you to spot.

It will not tell you your turnover is too high. There is no correct rate — it depends on the work, the market and who left — and a tool that printed a target would be inventing one. Some turnover is healthy. None of it is free, and those are two different statements.

It also will not quote you a percentage off a small team. With sixty people a rate means something; with six, one leaver moves it by seventeen points and the same year reads as a crisis or as nothing depending on who resigned. Under thirty people the page says so and shows the cost instead, which is the part that stands up.

Save as many versions as you like and put any two side by side, figure against figure, with the better one on each line marked and the difference in its own column. That screen is the one that decides things, and it is the part a free calculator cannot do at all. A junior leaving and a senior leaving are not the same number, and a single average across both tells you about neither.

One HTML file. No account, no subscription, no internet needed. Opens on Windows, Mac and Android; the readme explains the extra step on iPhone and iPad, where Apple blocks JavaScript in downloaded files and every tool of this kind is affected.

Everything lives in your browser on your device. Nothing is uploaded, which is why it works offline and why nobody else can see your figures — and it also means clearing your browsing data deletes it. The tool does not pretend otherwise: the header shows how long since your last export at all times, turns amber after three days and red after seven, and export is one click that produces a plain file you keep.