People & employment
Recruitment cost per hire Calculator
Combine recruitment spending, interview time, onboarding and ramp-up costs. This free recruitment cost per hire calculator shows the calculation and its assumptions so you can compare your own figures.
Your results
Combine recruitment spending, interview time, onboarding and ramp-up costs.
Calculated outcomes
- Interview Cost
- €1,350.00
Assumptions and estimates
- Recruiter fees and advertising are totals for the campaign; onboarding, sign-on and ramp-up costs apply per hire. Estimate ramp-up costs independently of interview and onboarding time.
- Method: Total cost adds shared campaign costs and interview time plus onboarding, sign-on and ramp-up costs for each hire.
- Advertising and recruiter fees are campaign totals. Keep ramp-up productivity loss separate from time already included in onboarding.
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How the recruitment cost per hire calculation works
Total cost adds shared campaign costs and interview time plus onboarding, sign-on and ramp-up costs for each hire.
Advertising and recruiter fees are campaign totals. Keep ramp-up productivity loss separate from time already included in onboarding.
Using this calculator
- Enter your own figures in the labelled inputs. Keep the currencies, units and time periods consistent.
- Choose any applicable rate profile, pattern or assumption shown for this tool. Open additional inputs when relevant.
- Review total hiring cost and cost per hire, then read the stated assumptions and eligibility conditions before using the result.
Worked example
This is a static example using illustrative inputs, not facts about you or today’s date. The displayed eligibility selections and assumptions apply only to this example.
See example inputs
- Successful hires
- 3
- Total advertising cost (€)
- 1200
- Total recruiter fees (€)
- 9000
- Total interviewer hours
- 30
- Loaded interviewer hourly cost (€)
- 45
- Onboarding cost per hire (€)
- 1000
- Sign-on payment per hire (€)
- 0
- Productivity ramp-up cost per hire (€)
- 2000
- Total Hiring Cost
- €20,550.00
- Cost Per Hire
- €6,850.00