How expensive was your mistake? Calculate the true financial loss of hiring the wrong person.
Bad Hire Cost Calculator is a free AI financial calculator tool by Fusion Focus that calculates the true cost of a bad hire including salary, training, opportunity cost, and team productivity loss. The average bad hire costs 30% of annual salary. For senior roles, this can exceed $200,000 in total losses.
Training, interviewing, fixing mistakes, onboarding...
That's 187% of the salary you paid them.
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`).
For the same 4 months, you could have hired a full agency team for significantly less risk and zero severance.
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of annual salary is the minimum cost of one bad hire
Source: U.S. Dept of Labor
80%
of turnover is due to bad hiring decisions
6 months
average time to realize a hire was wrong
| Feature | Fusion Focus | Manual Calculation | HR Spreadsheets |
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| Price | Free | Time-intensive | Free |
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| Sharable Report |
Enter the annual salary of the bad hire
Add the number of months they were employed
Estimate their productivity level compared to expectations
Factor in training costs and manager time spent
View the complete cost breakdown with hidden expenses
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that a bad hire costs 30% of their annual salary at minimum. For senior roles, this can exceed $200,000 when factoring in opportunity cost, team productivity loss, and the time to hire a replacement. The hidden costs include damaged team morale, lost customers, and delayed product launches. Understanding the true cost helps justify investing more in the hiring process.
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