What goes in. What comes out.
Your recruitment spend data — advertising costs, agency fees, internal time estimates, tool costs, and hiring volumes.
A complete cost per hire breakdown by channel and cost category, with benchmarking commentary, efficiency recommendations and a cost-per-quality-hire adjustment.
The problem this solves.
The standard cost-per-hire figure — total external spend divided by number of hires — tells you what you paid the job boards and agencies. It does not tell you what hiring actually cost the organisation. The hidden costs — recruiter time, hiring manager interview hours, onboarding, failed-hire replacement, vacancy duration — are often larger than the external spend and are almost never counted.
This matters because investment decisions in recruitment are made on the basis of cost-per-hire figures that are systematically understated. An organisation that believes its cost-per-hire is £3,000 because that is what it paid job boards last year may be spending closer to £8,000 when all costs are included. The business case for investing in owned infrastructure looks very different when the real baseline is understood.
Key features.
How recruiters use Cost Per Hire Calculator.
Who this tool is built for.
Recruitment marketers, TA leaders and HR directors building the business case for investment in owned recruitment infrastructure vs continued agency dependency.
Recruitment marketers, TA directors, HR leaders, CFOs reviewing recruitment spend.