Cost per hire calculator
Most cost-per-hire numbers count what was invoiced and ignore what it cost your team in hours. This one counts both, because for a small team without a recruiter the internal time is usually the larger figure and it never appears on a bill.
Your numbers
Reading applications, phone screens, scheduling. Everything before the real interview.
Salary plus employer costs, divided by working hours. Not the take-home rate.
Result
- Your team’s time, costed
- 900
- Total cost of this round
- 1,500
- Cost per hire
- 1,500
What this assumes
This is an estimate built from numbers you supplied, not a finding. It is useful for comparing two ways of doing the same thing, and it isn't evidence of anything on its own. Here is exactly what it assumes.
- It counts your team’s screening hours at a fully loaded hourly cost, which most cost-per-hire figures leave out entirely. That omission is why published benchmarks tend to look lower than reality.
- It doesn't include onboarding, equipment, the cost of a role sitting open, or the cost of a hire that doesn't work out. Those are real and they aren't in this number.
- Dividing by the number of hires assumes the spend produced all of them. If one advert filled three roles, the per-hire figure is genuinely lower; if half the spend produced nothing, it is higher.
This tool is free and always will be, with no signup. If you want the same thinking applied to your actual applicants — questions written for the role, every answer transcribed and scored against your criteria, the list ranked — that's what VoxScreen does, free for 50 candidates a month.