Bad Hire Calculator - ADP Screening and Selection Services

Bad Hire Calculator

Calculate how much a bad hire can cost your organization

Employee turnover. Lost work days. Accidents. Inefficiency. These are just a few of the ways a bad hire can damage your bottom line. The calculator below can help you estimate the costs your company incurs for making a bad hire.

This bad hire calculator accounts for the cost of advertising the position, HR staffing costs, interviewing time and salary plus any relocation and training costs.

Insert your company hiring costs to determine how much every bad hire could impact your company. Then call ADP at 1-866-207-1958 to learn how we can help you lower these unnecessary expenses.

Bad Hire Calculator
Cost to Advertise the Position
	Number of ads placed	$	Price of each ad

HR Staff Costs
	Hours involved	$	Annual HR salary

Costs to Interview
	Number of candidates interviewed		Number of interviewers
	$	Average salary of interviewers

Productivity Losses
	$	ENTER the position's salary

Relocation Costs
	$	ENTER 0 if relocation does not apply

Cost of Training
		Number of months spent training


Total Cost of a Bad Hire
$

*Averages were compiled from: USA Today 2004 Classified Advertising Rates; Workforce Management, March 2003: "Estimating the Financial Value of Staffing-Assessment Tools" by Dr. Charles Handler and Dr. Steven Hunt; 2002 SHRM/EMA Cost Per Hire Survey; HR Magazine, November 2003: "HR Compensation Special Report"; Workforce, January 2001: "The Importance of Cost Per Hire" by Barbara Davison.

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