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Your recruitment spend data, advertising costs, agency fees, internal time estimates, tool costs, and hiring volumes.
The true, whole-system cost, not the number you report to finance.
Calculate your true, whole-system cost per hire, including the hidden costs most organisations miss entirely. Agency fees, internal recruiter time, advertising spend, ATS costs, hiring manager time, onboarding, and failed-hire replacement costs all factored in. The number you need to make a real business case for investment in recruitment infrastructure.
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 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.
A TA director uses the calculator to build the ROI case for a Workforce Engine investment, showing the board that a single reduction in average vacancy duration of five days pays for the annual spend many times over.
An HR director uses the true cost-per-hire output to have a factual conversation with finance about the real cost of continued agency dependency, replacing an anecdotal argument with a documented figure.
A recruitment marketing manager uses the channel-by-channel breakdown to demonstrate that direct sourcing through the careers site costs less than a third of the average job board cost-per-hire.
Recruitment marketers, TA leaders and HR directors building the business case for investment in owned recruitment infrastructure vs continued agency dependency.
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