Bad Hire Calculator

Plug in your best guesstimates. Play with the numbers. You may be surprised by what one wrong hire costs when you add up the full cycle: the empty seat, the hiring process, the bad hire, and doing it all over again.

The Empty Seat

The position is open. You're short-handed. Work is piling up or getting covered by overtime.

Before you made the hire
weeks
Overtime, delayed work, missed opportunities, crew burden
$ /week
Section cost: $0

The Hiring Process

Your time posting the job, sorting through applicants, screening, interviewing, making a decision.

Posting, reviewing, screening, interviewing, coordinating
hours
What you'd be doing instead of hiring
$ /hr
Indeed, social media boosts, etc.
$
Section cost: $0

The Bad Hire

They started. You trained them. It didn't work out.

weeks
Your time and your crew's time getting them up to speed
hours
The person who spent time showing them the ropes
$ /hr
Safety incidents, equipment damage, crew disruption, rework
$
Section cost: $0

Starting Over

The seat is empty again. You're back to square one.

weeks

This section also includes your weekly cost of being short-handed, plus your hiring process time and ad costs again.

Section cost: $0
Total cost of one bad hire cycle
$0
Empty seat
$0
Hiring process
$0
Bad hire
$0
Starting over
$0

Now multiply that by how many times it's happened.