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Cost Per Hire Calculator

Filling a role costs more than the job ad. Add your internal time and external spend. This gives your true cost per hire on the SHRM and ANSI standard, with the internal versus external split.

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. Number of hires in the period, Avg first-year salary (optional), Job ads and postings, Agency or recruiter fees

The hires

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External costs

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Internal costs

Internal time is costed at each person’s pay rate, salary divided by 2,080 hours.

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US benchmark is about $4,700 to $5,475 per hire.

Where the cost comes from

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

The method

How cost per hire is calculated

The formula is the SHRM and ANSI 2012 standard. Total internal recruiting costs plus total external recruiting costs, divided by the number of hires in the period.

How this is calculated

External costs

Money paid to outside vendors: job ads and boards, agency or recruiter fees, background checks and assessments, and referral bonuses. Agency fees are often the largest single driver, commonly 15% to 25% of first-year salary.

Internal costs

The time your own people spend hiring, costed at their pay rate, plus recruiting tools. The hardest part is estimating the hours, which is normal and expected in the standard.

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More free tools and the notes behind them

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

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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

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