Employee Turnover Calculator
Calculates voluntary, involuntary and total turnover separately — the three answer different questions and a single figure hides which one you have.
Result
Enter the headcounts to see the result.
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One number hides three different problems
A single turnover figure lumps together people who retired or moved away, people the company dismissed, and people you wanted to keep who left for a better offer. Only the last is your problem, and the first two are often not.
High involuntary turnover points to a selection problem — you are hiring the wrong people. High voluntary turnover points to a retention problem — you are hiring the right people and losing them. The fixes are completely different, which is why this calculator reports them separately.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a healthy turnover rate?
- There is no universal figure, and zero is a warning rather than a target — a team nobody leaves usually takes in no new thinking either. What matters is who left, not how many.
- Should first-year leavers be tracked separately?
- Yes. Someone who leaves within twelve months is the most expensive kind of departure, because the recruitment and onboarding cost was never recovered. A high share of first-year leavers almost always means either the selection criteria or the way the role was described.