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What a hire really costs. Two calculators. Your numbers. No email asked.
Traditional recruiting pays more when the salary does. So the push was never really about finding the right fit, it was about the number. Move the figures to match your next twelve months.
Three ways to hire. One number that matters.
An agency charges a percentage of each salary. An in-house team is a payroll that stays after the hiring ends. Pivot and Edge is a flat fee for every role.
Your next twelve months
Pivot and Edge
$7,500 flat for every role. 8 roles is $60,000, and it doesn't move when the salary does.
An agency sample: 15 to 30 percent is the usual range
Building it in house sample: a full in-house HR and recruiting team
A recruiter, a coordinator and a recruitment marketer, about $300,000 a year in payroll, and it stays after the hiring ends.
Pivot and Edge costs you
less than an agency over 12 months
Over 24 months Pivot and Edge is the lowest of the three: the in-house payroll keeps running after the hiring ends.
$7,500 per hire with Pivot and Edge, $22,000 through an agency, $37,500 in house.
8 roles at a $110,000 average salary. An agency at 20 percent of salary comes to $176,000. A full in-house HR and recruiting team costs $300,000 a year. Pivot and Edge at $7,500 per role comes to $60,000. Pivot and Edge costs $116,000 less than an agency over 12 months. Over 24 months Pivot and Edge is the lowest of the three: the in-house payroll keeps running after the hiring ends.
| Month | Pivot and Edge | Agency | In house |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | $60,000 | $176,000 | $150,000 |
| 12 | $60,000 | $176,000 | $300,000 |
| 18 | $60,000 | $176,000 | $450,000 |
| 24 | $60,000 | $176,000 | $600,000 |
Sample figures. The per-role fee covers the hire; the call walks through your full cost, including any monthly retainer.
The real cost of a bad hire. It's more than the salary.
Put in a salary and how long a wrong hire tends to stay. It returns the cost in four parts: the salary, the ramp time, the lost productivity and the backfill.
The hire
The assumptions: a wrong hire delivers 50% of the role, takes 3 months to ramp, and the backfill goes to an agency at 20%.
One wrong hire costs you about
About the salary you set out to pay.
- Salary paid
$0$0 - 6 months of salary
- Ramp time
$0$0 - the team's time getting them up to speed: a quarter of a salary over 3 months
- Lost productivity
$0$0 - the work that didn't get done: 50 percent of the role's output for 6 months
- Backfill recruiting
$0$0 - hiring the role again through an agency at 20 percent of salary
A $95,000 hire who stays 6 months before it is clear they are the wrong fit costs about $96,188: salary paid $47,500, ramp time $5,938, lost productivity $23,750, backfill recruiting $19,000.
The backfill alone through Pivot and Edge is a flat $7,500. The better saving is the hire that doesn't go wrong: we build the story first, so the people who say yes already want in.
Get the free Talent Attraction AuditAn estimate from your figures and the assumptions above. Industry estimates of a bad hire vary widely; these are the parts you can see in your own numbers.
Bring your numbers to the call.
We'll walk through your full cost, including any monthly retainer, and what the first two weeks look like. The figures you set here come with you.
Flat fee. No long-term contract.
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- 1A short call about your hiring, not a sales pitch.
- 2We tell you which trail fits and what the first two weeks look like.
- 3You leave with the numbers from the calculator, confirmed.
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