Few executive-level employees understand how much money their organizations lose by failing to retain key employees. Here is your chance to calculate the cost of losing one of your organization’s most influential performers.
Select a job that has been experiencing a high turnover rate. Calculate the full cost of that job by entering the average wage for that position on Line 1 and then multiplying it by 130% to include benefits costs. Next, multiply the total wage by 25%. This cost per employee may then be multiplied by the number of ex-employees in the same job on Line 6 to arrive at the total cost of turnover in this position.
Here are the steps:
- Annual wage $__________
- Gross-up for benefits x 1.30
- Total wage $__________
- Turnover cost x 0.25
- Cost per employee $__________
- Ex-employees x __________
- Total turnover cost $__________
Example:
- Manager’s Salary $67,480
- Gross-up for benefits x 30
- Total wage $87,724
- Turnover cost x 25
- Cost per manager $21,931
- Ex-managers x 10
- Total turnover cost $ 219,310
While this seems like a simple calculation, most organizations do not know their turnover costs. The cost of turnover impacts your organizations profits, so I encourage you to figure out how much you are spending today and work on a plan to reduce these costs and add to your bottom line in the future. Make 2017 a year to retain employees so that you don’t have to continue to calculate the cost of turnover!
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Written by: Kristen Deutsch, M.B.A., CCP
President
01/15/2017
