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What is your hiring process really costing you?
Tell us about the role
We use this to calculate the productivity cost of leaving the role vacant, and the ramp-up impact once someone joins.
Target revenue this person is expected to generate
How long before a new hire reaches 100% output
Ultimate Asset range: 15-20% of annual salary
Contingency — no hire, no fee
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Your hiring process
How long does it take, and how much internal time gets spent? These inputs drive the hidden cost of hiring without specialist support.
UK average 8 weeks in 2025 — specialist roles consistently run longer
Source: Totaljobs Hiring Trends Index 2025Our average: 5 weeks. Range: 2-8 weeks by seniority
Source: Ultimate Asset placement data 2025-26Internal team time — DIY route
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Across hiring manager, HR, and panel interviewers
Bad hire assumptions CIPD Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey 2024
Estimated % of hires that do not work out within a year. Adjust to your experience.
CIPD 2024: 41% of UK employers made at least one regretted hireTotal cost of a failed hire as a multiple of salary. Adjust for seniority.
CIPD 2024: typically 1-3x salary depending on seniorityYour true cost of hiring
Every figure is explained in the methodology section below. Adjust any input and recalculate at any time.
How we calculated this
Sources · CIPD Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey 2024 — bad hire cost and probability benchmarks (1,016 UK respondents) · Totaljobs Hiring Trends Index 2025 — UK average time-to-hire now 8 weeks, specialist roles longer · Ultimate Asset internal placement data 2025-26
Want to talk through your specific hiring challenge?
Speak to a consultantMost businesses weigh up agency fees against doing it themselves. Few account for the revenue lost while a role sits vacant, the internal time pulled away from other priorities, or the cost when a hire doesn’t work out.
This calculator puts real numbers against all of it, using CIPD 2024 benchmarks, Totaljobs 2025 time-to-hire data, and our own placement averages. Every assumption is visible and adjustable. The result is yours to keep.
