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Turnover rate and the real cost of a resignation.

Get your turnover rate for any period, put a dollar figure on each departure, and log it month by month so you can see the trend.

Guidance, not legal advice. Cost figures are estimates built from your own inputs. Change any default that doesn't fit your business. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is uploaded, and your answers are saved only on this device so you can come back to them.

Turnover rate
Cost of one departure

Empty-seat and ramp-up costs use pay as a stand-in for lost output. Ramp-up assumes half productivity, rising to full.

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Your turnover log

Add a period to start a trend line. It's saved on this device only.

The formula

Turnover rate = separations ÷ average headcount, where average headcount = (start + end) ÷ 2. Annualized turnover multiplies a monthly rate by 12 and a quarterly rate by 4. That projection assumes the rest of the year looks like this period, which it rarely does, so read the log over several months.