Bad Hire Calculator
What’s the Real Cost of Hiring the Wrong Person?
When a new hire leaves within their first year, the financial impact can be much greater than expected—often up to 3.5 times their annual salary once you factor in lost productivity, disruption, re-hiring, and onboarding costs.
It’s a hit to your bottom line that many businesses underestimate.
Our Bad Hire Calculator uses up-to-date industry data and predictive algorithms to help you see just how much your hiring process could be costing—or saving—you. Discover the financial case for smarter recruitment and how making the right hire, the first time, pays off.
Unrecoverable salary
Lost productivity
Wasted management time
Indirect staff turnover
Loss of business and reputation
Agency fees
It costs more than you expect
*Results based on formulas from Perfect Match (Making the right hire and the cost of getting it wrong) Study researched & published by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation
How Top Companies Measure Success
Most businesses track overall turnover—but high-performing organisations go further. They focus on new hire retention, especially within the critical first 12 months, and take active steps to reduce early attrition risk.
Why? Because that’s where the biggest losses occur.
The first year is often the least profitable period for a new hire, and when someone leaves before their one-year mark, the financial impact can be significant—often up to 3.5 times their salary. For a £100K role, that could mean a loss exceeding £350K. And for any business, that’s a costly setback to growth and performance.