Cost Per Hire Calculator
Build your real cost to fill a role on the SHRM and ANSI standard. Enter your external recruiting spend and the recruiter and hiring manager hours. The workbook prices the staff time most teams miss.
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Agency vs Internal Recruiter ROI Calculator
Compare the cost of an in-house recruiter against agency fees across your real hiring plan. Set the recruiter’s loaded cost and capacity, list the roles you hire by group and agency rate, and the workbook returns the all-agency cost, the in-house scenario, and the annual saving from building in-house at your volume.
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See the Setup Session →What this closes
A practical system that moves the decision into real work.
Enter your hiring volume and your average agency fee. The workbook finds the volume at which an in-house recruiter costs less than the agency does.
DecisionHire someone
IndustryCross-industry
Files4 PDF guides, 1 Excel workbook
ReviewBuilt to the published release checks; sources and change notes sit beside the catalog.
What is inside
Every file in the download, by name.
Taken from the kit’s own Start Here guide, so what you see here is what you open after checkout.
Excel · useAgency vs Internal Recruiter ROI: 5 tabs: Start Here, Compare, Benchmark, Summary, and Notes.
PDF · printQuick Reference: the whole workbook on one page: what each tab is for, what you enter, and how to read the result.
PDF · readUsing This Workbook in Google Sheets: how to upload the file to Google Sheets and exactly what to check afterward.
PDF · keepTrueStep HR Product License: what you may and may not do with the files you purchased.
How to use it
What this workbook does
This workbook compares the cost of recruiting agencies against an in-house recruiter at your hiring volume. You set the recruiter’s cost and capacity, then list the roles you hire with their agency fees. It builds two scenarios, all-agency and in-house, where in-house adds any hires above your recruiters’ capacity back at the blended agency rate. The Summary shows the annual saving, the break-even point, the cost per hire each way, and the saving over several years.
Your first 15 minutesOpen the Agency vs Internal Recruiter ROI workbook in Microsoft Excel or a free equivalent such as LibreOffice. The first tab, Start Here, walks you through every tab. On the Compare tab, set your inhouse recruiter cost: salary, benefits, tools, capacity, and how many recruiters. List the roles you hire, with hires per year, average salary, and the agency fee for each. Edit only the amber cells; the white cells calculate for you.
Before you buy
Clear answers to the practical questions.
The point of a product page is to let you judge the work before checkout.
What exactly do I receive?
4 PDF guides, 1 Excel workbook, each one named in the What is inside section above. The purchase is a download, not a subscription, and the files are yours to keep.
Are these the real screenshots?
Yes. The preview images on this page are taken from the current deliverable, so you can judge the structure and writing before buying.
Can I use the files in my business?
The files are designed to be edited for your own internal operations. Review the included license and have legal counsel check decisions that require jurisdiction-specific advice.
What if I need help applying it?
Use the $149 Setup Session for one hour of implementation help on this tool. TrueStep HR does not offer broader consulting engagements. For a legal question, use qualified counsel.
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Time-to-Fill Cost Calculator
Put a number on the cost of leaving a role open. Enter each role’s salary, the value it produces, and the days it has been open, and the workbook returns the net cost of the vacancy, the cost across every open role, and what hiring faster would save.
Vacancy Cost Calculator
See what open roles cost you in a year, and what you save by filling them faster or keeping people longer. Enter your headcount, turnover, and time to fill, and this Excel workbook returns the annual vacancy cost, the average seats empty at any moment, and the saving from each lever.