Absence and recruitment calculator

How much is absence and recruitment costing your company?

According to the CIPD Absence Management Survey July 2009, the average level of employee absence is now 7.4 days per employee, per year and the average cost of sickness per employee per year is £692. The average recruitment cost of filling a vacancy per employee is £4,000. Source: CIPD Annual Recruitment, Retention and Turnover Survey 2009. Sovereign Health Care has a range of health care cash plans designed to meet a variety of business needs, including helping to reduce absence and recruitment costs. Find out more.

Use our absence and recruitment calculator to estimate the costs to your business

The calculator uses statistics from the CIPD Absence Management Survey July 2009 and the CIPD Annual Recruitment, Retention and Turnover Survey 2009 to estimate the costs to your business. The estimates returned will be determined by the information you enter.

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If you do not know the number of new recruits last year or do not wish to see the potential cost of recruitment, simply click 'Submit' to view your results

To calculate the cost of recruitment:

If you would like to incorporate the cost of recruitment, enter the number of new employees last year at each level below. If you don’t have the information or you don’t wish to see the cost of recruitment, simply click 'Submit' to view your results:

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Services (Customer, Sales, Personal, Protective)

Manual / Craft Workers