Free tool · Recruiters and hiring managers

Cost per Hire Calculator

Calculate cost per hire from your recruiting spend and hires, with a separate screening workload estimate. Your amounts stay in the browser.

This calculator runs on plain arithmetic in your browser — the hires and cost amounts you enter are never sent to an AI model or provider, and there is no daily limit. Select Calculate to see a result; changing any field afterwards marks the result as stale until you calculate again.

Example output

Synthetic example — illustrates the structure only, not a real submission.

Cost per Hire Calculator — result

Inputs

Hires: 6
Internal recruiting costs: USD 12,000.00 per month
External recruiting costs: USD 6,000.00 per month
Candidates screened: 120
Average screening time: 30 minutes per candidate
Loaded hourly cost: USD 40.00 per hour

Formula

Cost per hire = (internal recruiting costs + external recruiting costs) / hires
Screening hours = candidates screened × average screening minutes ÷ 60
Screening labour estimate = screening hours × loaded hourly cost

Cost per hire

USD 3,000.00 per hire, for the month entered. (USD 18,000.00 total recruiting costs ÷ 6 hires)

Screening workload estimate (kept separate from cost per hire)

Screening hours: 60h
Screening labour estimate: USD 2,400.00

Assumptions

All costs and the hire count are for the same period: per month.
"USD" is a display label only — no currency conversion is applied.
The screening workload estimate is informational only. It is never added into internal recruiting costs or cost per hire, since that would double count it.
This is a direct calculation from the numbers you entered — not a savings estimate, ROI projection, industry benchmark, or price recommendation.

A synthetic example for illustration — not a real submission.

How this works

Enter the number of hires and your internal and external recruiting costs for one period (a month, a quarter, or a year) — cost per hire is (internal + external) ÷ hires. Optionally add a screening workload: candidates screened and the average screening time per candidate give screening hours (candidates × minutes ÷ 60), and a loaded hourly cost turns that into a labour estimate. The workload estimate is shown separately and is never folded into cost per hire, since that would double count it. Every number here comes directly from what you typed — there is no benchmark, no savings claim, and no prediction.

Limitations

This is arithmetic on the numbers you enter — not a hiring-cost benchmark, savings estimate, or ROI projection.
Currency is a label only; amounts in different currencies are never converted or combined.
The screening workload estimate assumes a single average screening time across all candidates.
Nothing is saved — refreshing or leaving this page clears everything you entered.

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