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What is turnover really costing you?
Most companies feel the loss of a good person and never put a number on it. Put one here. Then see what it is worth to catch it in time.
Your team
Headcount on the team or org you care about.
Rough average annual salary for those people.
Sets the cost of one departure as a share of salary.
Share of the team who leave in a typical year.
What it is costing you
About 7.5 people walk out a year, at roughly $75,000 each to recruit, replace, and bring back up to speed.
Over three years, that is $1,687,500, and that is before the lost momentum, the institutional knowledge that walks out the door, and what it does to the people who stay.
Where the cost of one departure goes
The business case
Turnover is a cost you are already paying every year, funded or not. So the only question a budget really asks is how little a fix would have to work to be worth it. These are your numbers. Set the figure to whatever you are weighing.
Your figure, whatever you would spend a year on it.
At $30,000 a year, preventing even one of this year’s roughly 7.5 departures more than covers it.
This is your own math, on your own numbers. No fix keeps everyone, so this only shows how low the bar for a positive return really is.
If you act in time
You will not keep everyone, and no honest tool pretends otherwise. But seeing who is at risk and acting before the notice lands turns a real share of those losses back into people who stay.
Still bleeding out
$421,875
a year, if nothing changes
Kept on the team
$140,625
a year, back where it belongs
That recovered number is the whole point. You just put a number on the bleed. Anchor was built to stop it, by reading one person at a time and handing their manager a clear plan, in time to matter.
Estimates, not a quote. Replacement cost uses 100% of salary for this role type, within the range published research puts on turnover (roughly half to two times annual salary). Adjust any input to match your own numbers.
A number is not a plan
Knowing the cost is the easy part. The hard part is knowing which of your people are quietly on their way out, and what to say to keep them, while there is still time to say it. That is the difference between watching the number above happen to you and doing something about it.
Anchor reads one employee at a time and hands their manager a clear picture and a simple plan. Not a dashboard. A plan, in time to matter.
You put a number on it. Now stop it.
Anchor reads one person at a time and hands their manager a clear plan, in time to matter. If the number you just saw is real for your team, let us talk about stopping it.
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