Free tool
Cost of staff turnover = the cost of replacing one leaver, times the number of people who leave in a year. Replacing one person costs advertising, manager time spent hiring, paid training, and lost work while the new starter learns the job.
Most hospitality businesses know their turnover percentage and have never turned it into money. Put your own numbers in below and the calculator shows the cost per leaver, the yearly bill, and what a ten-point improvement would be worth. Every assumption is visible and you can change it.
The calculator
Nothing is sent anywhere — the maths runs in your browser and we never see what you type. Every field starts at a deliberately conservative default.
What the number does and doesn’t include
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The defaults sit at the conservative end of what UK operators tell us. They are a starting point for a conversation with your finance lead, not a benchmark you can cite. Change them to match your business.
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Lost covers from understaffed shifts, the service dip a stretched rota causes, damaged reviews, and the contagion effect where one exit triggers the next — all real, none of them modelled here, because none can be estimated honestly without your data.
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Whatever figure you get is the least turnover is costing you, not the most. That is the right way round for a number you intend to take to a board.