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Caregiver Turnover Cost Calculator

Home care turnover runs 75 to 79 percent a year, and more than half of those exits land inside the first 90 days. Add recruiting and the paid training before the first billable shift. Add the office time on the exit and the refill, and the weeks the schedule runs short. One departure typically lands between $2,600 and $5,000. Here is what it costs your agency, with your numbers.

Before you start

Plan on about three minutes and bring your own figures. Nothing is stored and no sign up is needed.

What you will need. Billable rate per hour, Caregiver base wage per hour, Weekly billable hours per caregiver, Weeks from last shift to first solo shift

Your rates

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The national median private pay rate is about $35 per hour (CareScout Cost of Care Survey). Replace it with your own blended rate.
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The BLS median caregiver wage works out to about $17 per hour at full-time hours. Replace it with your own average.

The vacancy while the seat is empty

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While the seat is empty, some hours get absorbed by the roster and some are cut, delayed, or lost. Estimate the share you cannot bill. A starter figure, not a benchmark. Be honest rather than kind.

Hiring the replacement

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Office time on applications, calls, and interviews for one filled seat, including the candidates who did not work out. Hard costs cover the background check, health screening, and onboarding paperwork.
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What an hour of the owner or scheduler is worth. Training hours are paid at the caregiver wage. Office hours at this rate.
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The sector runs 75 to 79 percent a year. The starter counts model a 20-caregiver roster at the low end of that range. Replace both counts with your own, then pick a rate you believe you could reach. The result card prices the gap.

Training and office time

A year of it

Cost of one departure

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0% modeled turnover
A year at your counts
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Reaching your target saves
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One departure costs about $0, and a year at your counts drains $0.

Where the cost comes from

Email yourself this breakdown We send the figures you just produced, with your inputs beside them.

The method

What goes into caregiver turnover cost

Published estimates put the cost of replacing one caregiver between $2,600 and $5,000. In an agency the buckets are concrete. They are the money spent hiring and the hours paid before the first billable shift. Then the office time the exit and the refill eat, and the weeks the schedule runs short. This calculator prices all four the same way the in-depth workbook does.

How this is calculated

Recruiting and hiring

Job boards, ads, and any referral bonus. Then the screening and interview hours at your office rate, and the hard costs of the background check, health screening, and onboarding paperwork.

Paid training before the first billable shift

Orientation, shadowing, and supervised visits at the caregiver wage: money out before a dollar comes in. If a trainer shadows those visits, the real number is higher.

Office time on the exit and the refill

Processing the exit, the reschedule calls, the new-hire setup. Small per departure, and it never stops repeating at sector turnover rates.

The unfilled schedule

Refill weeks, times the weekly schedule, times the share that goes unfilled, times the margin between your bill rate and the wage. Usually the biggest line, and the one owners never put a number on.

Carry this into the decision

Put a permanent number on your turnover

The Caregiver Turnover Cost Workbook adds the departure log, the reason ranking, the hiring-source read, and the quarterly review that brings the rate down, in one locked-formula Excel file.

See the Caregiver Turnover Cost Workbook

$34. 30 days. Reply to your receipt or email support@truestephr.com for a full refund. No form or explanation is required, and you keep the files.

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This tool estimates from the figures you enter. It is general information rather than legal, tax, or accounting advice, so check the result against your own records before you rely on it.

Use the number

The calculation is the start of the decision.

Keep the result, move the live assumptions into an editable workbook, and put the number to work inside the matched kit.

01 · Calculate

Run the free analysis

Change the inputs until the result reflects the business you actually operate.

02 · Keep and model

Email the breakdown

Use the result form on this page, then carry the assumptions into the editable version.

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03 · Decide

Apply it to the live issue

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