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Free, no-signup calculators and checkers every hiring team should have on hand — cost, quality, fairness and process, all in your browser.

Cost & value

Cost-per-hire calculator

Add up what it costs to make one hire — internal and external — and divide by the hires you made.

Cost of a bad hire

A mis-hire costs far more than a salary once you count lost productivity, team disruption and re-hiring. Enter a salary to see the range.

Turnover & retention calculator

Enter how many people left and your average headcount to get your turnover and retention rates.

Hiring process

Time-to-hire calculator

Enter the days each stage takes to see your total time to hire and where the bottleneck is.

Interview scorecard builder

Define the competencies that matter, weight them, and score a candidate consistently — the core of a structured interview.

Fairness & compliance

Four-fifths rule checker

Enter the selection (or pass) rate for two groups. If the ratio between them falls below 0.8, the process may have adverse impact and warrants review.

Job description bias checker

Paste a job description to flag gender-coded and exclusionary language that can narrow your applicant pool.

Questions

How much does a bad hire cost?

The US Department of Labor and SHRM put it at roughly 30–50% of first-year salary as a conservative floor; for mid-level and senior roles the all-in cost often reaches one to two times salary once lost productivity, team disruption and re-hiring are counted.

What is the four-fifths rule?

A fairness check: if a group's selection rate is below 80% (four-fifths) of the highest group's rate, the process may have adverse impact and warrants review. It comes from the 1978 Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures.

How do you calculate cost per hire?

Add your external recruiting costs (agency fees, job-board spend, referral bonuses) to your internal costs (recruiter time, tooling) for a period, then divide by the number of hires made in that period. A widely cited benchmark is roughly $4,000–5,000, but it varies a lot by role and seniority.

What is a good employee turnover rate?

It depends heavily on industry, but many organisations aim to keep voluntary turnover below about 10% a year. High turnover is frequently a downstream symptom of poor selection — assessing the right skills up front is one of the most effective ways to improve retention.

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