Recruiting Channel ROI Calculator | Itelgie Recruiting

Which recruiting channel is actually paying off?

Raw cost per hire hides the real story — adjust for how many of those hires actually stick around.

Your channel snapshot

Hires sourced through this specific channel (agency, job board, LinkedIn, etc.).

How many hires came through this specific sourcing channel in the period you’re measuring.

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Job board fees, agency commissions, or ad spend for this channel.

Everything spent to source and win those hires through this one channel.

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Share of hires from this channel still employed after 12 months.

A hire who leaves within a year effectively cost you more — this weights cost per hire by how many actually stayed.

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Retention-adjusted cost per hire

$0
per retained hire from this channel
Raw cost per hire
Inflation from early turnover
How this is calculated

Raw cost per hire = channel cost ÷ hires from that channel. Retention-adjusted cost per hire = raw cost per hire ÷ 1-year retention rate — the lower the retention, the more each retained hire really costs.

Want to know which channel is really worth it?

Itelgie Recruiting gives you stage-by-stage visibility into every channel’s pipeline and AI-assisted match scoring, so you can double down on what actually works.

  • See stage-by-stage visibility into every channel’s pipeline
  • Compare candidates with automated match-to-requirement scoring
  • Spot which sources produce candidates who actually stay
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