Regrettable Turnover Cost Calculator | Itelgie HR

What does losing your best people actually cost?

Regrettable exits cost more than replacement — you lose institutional knowledge too.

Your regrettable exits snapshot

Valuable employees who left and you wish had stayed.

Departures you consider a real loss — not performance-related exits.

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Typically above-average for regrettable losses.

Average salary of the employees who left — usually your stronger performers.

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Recruiting, ramp-up, and lost productivity to backfill.

Fully-loaded cost to replace a strong performer — sourcing, ramp-up, and lost output — as a % of salary.

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Client relationships, tribal knowledge, mentorship — hard to replace.

The harder-to-replace value they carried: relationships, institutional knowledge, mentorship.

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Estimated regrettable turnover cost

$0
per year
Replacement & rehiring$0
Lost institutional knowledge$0
Cost per regrettable exit
Regrettable exits/year
How this is calculated

Replacement & rehiring = regrettable exits × salary × replacement cost %. Lost institutional knowledge = regrettable exits × salary × knowledge-loss %.

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Itelgie HR surfaces feedback history and workload data, so you can spot flight risk and burnout before your best people start looking elsewhere.

  • Track feedback history to catch flight risk early
  • Monitor workload and unit economics to spot burnout
  • Keep skills and career development data in one place to plan retention
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