Employee Turnover Cost Calculator
Estimate what employee turnover costs your organization, grounded in cited SHRM and Gallup research rather than invented figures. Enter your numbers to see the cost per departure and, with a headcount, the annual cost of instability: turnover plus the hours lost to absence, using BLS and Statistics Canada reference rates you can override. The arithmetic is printed under the result.
The typical annual salary for the roles you're modeling.
Optional — add this to estimate your annual, organization-wide cost.
Optional — the share of your workforce that leaves each year.
Prefilled with the U.S. reference (1.7% of usual hours, BLS 2025). Canada: 3.8% private sector, 6.3% public sector (StatCan 2025). The two measures count different things; see the sources below.
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Replacing one employee typically costs 0.5× – 2× their annual salary.
Per-departure figure = average annual salary × 2× (the high end of the researched range). Annual turnover cost = departures × that figure. Absence cost = employees × average salary × absence rate, valuing every lost hour at the wage. Enter a headcount for the annual view. Nothing here is a prediction, and no share of it is claimed to be recoverable.
Sources
Absence reference rates. The absence field is prefilled with the U.S. figure. The BLS and Statistics Canada measures count different things, so a U.S. and a Canadian rate are not comparable with each other; set the field to your own payroll figure when you have one.