What leaders track
- Recruiter fees and job posting costs
- Signing bonuses and relocation packages
- Formal sick leave days
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cost scenario.
Explore turnover, absence and engagement assumptions in an illustrative model. This is not a measured loss or ROI forecast. No signup required.
Explore an illustrative cost scenario
Interactive calculation requires JavaScript. Here is a worked example: 100 people, a $72,000 average salary, 10 departures, eight sick days per person and medium engagement produce a model total of approximately $1.99 million per year.
Illustrative assumptions: 260 working days per year; replacement cost of 0.5× or 1.5× annual salary, selected by the salary threshold for your currency; absence overhead of 1.28×; engagement levels of 70%, 45% and 20%. The remaining share is a proxy, not a measured actively disengaged population, and is assigned a 34% productivity-loss assumption. Categories may overlap, so the sum is not independently attributable loss. Reduction scenarios are not forecasts or assured cash savings.
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Illustrative cost scenario
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Explore three hypothetical reductions in the model total. These are not predictions.
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Sharing creates a link containing your team size, salary, currency, departures, sick days and engagement assumption. Anyone with the link can read them.
Sources and methodology
Illustrative assumptions: 260 working days per year; replacement cost of 0.5× or 1.5× annual salary, selected by the salary threshold for your currency; absence overhead of 1.28×; engagement levels of 70%, 45% and 20%. The remaining share is a proxy, not a measured actively disengaged population, and is assigned a 34% productivity-loss assumption. Categories may overlap, so the sum is not independently attributable loss. Reduction scenarios are not forecasts or assured cash savings.
Replacement thresholds: USD 80,000; GBP 50,000; EUR 55,000; INR 1,200,000; other currencies 60,000. At or above the threshold the multiplier is 1.5×, otherwise 0.5×.
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Start a conversation about your team.
Use the scenario to discuss your assumptions, then explore the workflows your team needs.
Above vs Below the Surface
What makes wellbeing costs invisible?
Most leaders track what they can see: replacement fees and recruiter invoices. The real damage is hiding below the waterline.
What actually bleeds money
- Showing up but mentally checked out
- People doing the bare minimum
- Managers losing time to conflict and rework
- Knowledge walking out the door with senior leavers
- Customer trust and brand damage
Visible expenses and indirect effects can overlap. This illustration does not assign a measured share to either category.
The Cost Is Real
Why should you measure the cost of poor wellbeing?
Gallup estimates this global cost from employee burnout through turnover and lost productivity.
Gallup: employee wellbeing researchThis research provides context, not a prediction for your organization. The calculator uses illustrative assumptions that you can discuss with your team.
Review each category separately. Overlapping effects mean the total cannot establish cash savings.
How It Works
How does the calculator work?
Enter your team details
Enter team size, average salary, turnover count, and sick days.
Review the assumptions
Explore the model breakdown for turnover, absence and engagement, with its assumptions and limitations.
Keep a report of your scenario
Download a PNG report with the inputs, limitations and 10%, 25% and 50% reduction scenarios.
From a question to a next step
An illustrative workflow. A suggested action is a starting point for a conversation, not a promise of improvement.
Review team-level evidence
Use Workspace Health to explore aggregate pulse and mood insights. Keep individual contribution evidence separate.
Choose an action together
A manager discusses priorities with the team and agrees who will own the next step.
Check in again
Review later feedback and progress. Completing an action does not establish that the underlying concern is resolved.
FAQ
Common Questions
What is the employee wellbeing cost calculator?
A free illustrative scenario model for turnover, absence and engagement assumptions. It is not a measurement of your organization, a forecast or a promised return on investment.
How is the scenario calculated?
The model combines replacement costs, sick days at a daily salary rate with a 1.28× overhead, and a non-engaged proxy with a 34% productivity-loss assumption. Engagement choices map to 70%, 45% or 20% engaged. These assumptions do not measure active disengagement. Categories may overlap; the total is not independently attributable loss.
What inputs do I need?
Team size, average annual salary and currency, departures in the past year, average sick days per person and an engagement assumption.
Is my data stored or shared?
Calculations run in your browser. Calculator analytics record usage events without your inputs or results, and session recording is disabled on this page. If you choose Share, the link contains your assumptions. Anyone with that link can read them. Downloaded reports also contain your inputs and results.
What should I do after seeing my results?
Download a PNG report to discuss the assumptions with your team. Use Workspace Health to review aggregate team insights and choose a human-owned next step. Reputation describes individual contribution separately; anonymous responses and private notes do not become individual scores.
Turn insight into action
Explore team health insights and everyday HR workflows. Choose a starting point with your team, with access based on your plan and workspace settings.