The cost of a bad hire.
A bad hire is rarely just a salary you stop paying.
It's the months of half-output, the rehiring, and the deals that never got written.
What that miss costs $0
- Salary paid during the miss$0
- Lost production vs a good hire$0
- Rehiring & onboarding (twice)$0
And that is before the harder-to-count costs: the team morale, the clients who felt it, and your time spent managing the problem instead of growing the business.
Indicative only. Built on a simple, transparent model (salary over tenure, a lost-production factor, and rehiring at your stated cost, counted for both the original and replacement hire). Every business is different; use it to start the conversation, not to set a budget.
Cheaper to get it right the first time.
That number is exactly why we work a search properly.
Tell us the seat and we will help you fill it with someone who stays.