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Bad Hire Calculator

How expensive was your mistake? Calculate the true financial loss of hiring the wrong person.

The Fusion Focus Bad Hire Calculator is a diagnostic tool that quantifies the total financial impact of a failed hire across six cost categories: recruitment fees (25% of salary), ramp-up waste, actual salary paid, productivity loss (30% impact), team morale damage, and replacement costs. According to SHRM research, the average bad hire costs 2.5x the annual salary, with software engineers averaging ₹30L in total losses and product managers reaching ₹35L.

The Details

Annual Salary (CTC)12.0L
Time Employed4 Months
Recruiter Fee (%)8.33%
Manager Hours Wasted40 hrs

Training, interviewing, fixing mistakes, onboarding...

Total Cash Incinerated

7.46 Lakhs

That's 187% of the salary you paid them.

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Where the money went

The Reality Check

You paid 5.2L in salary/overhead, but based on your inputs, you actually lost 7.5L.

Most founders forget the hidden costs of recruiting fees (`₹100k`) and wasted management time (`₹80k`).

Alternative Option

Hire Sprint Zero

6.0L

For the same 4 months, you could have hired a full agency team for significantly less risk and zero severance.

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