COST OF A BAD HIRE
What one bad hire really costs
Enter the role and how your loop ran. We total only what we can defend — and show the math behind every line.
THE ROLE
$/mo
Pre-filled from the role — edit if yours differs.
THE HIRING LOOP
$
Agency fees, recruiter time, job ads — whatever it costs you to source one candidate.
Expand to edit stages, people and rates.
ONBOARDING
= 20 team-hours ≈ $1,000 per hire
Your team's hours spent ramping every new hire — intros, pairing, reviews. The replacement goes through it too, so it counts in both cycles.
THE MISTAKE
Time to spot the mistake
months on payroll before it was clear
1 mo
Waste factor50%
0% · STILL DID THE WORK100% · TOTAL LOSS
Early months are mostly onboarding — learning the project, not real tasks; later they still do some work before leaving. We count only the wasted share of their salary — adjust for your case.
ESTIMATED COST OF ONE MIS-HIRE
Product Manager · 4 stages · $5k/mo
DIRECT COSTS
Hiring cost$2,325
sourcing $1,000 + interviews $325 + onboarding $1,000
Wasted salary$2,500
1 mo × $5,000/mo × 50%
Re-hire cost$2,325
the whole cycle again — sourcing + interviews + onboarding
Subtotal · direct costs$7,150
TOTAL — ESTIMATED COST
one mis-hire, conservatively
$7,150
One cycle ($2,325) you'd pay for any hire anyway. The mistake's own price: $4,825.
NOT INCLUDED
Team morale · project delays · lost reputation · talent attrition. Real, but not quantified here — so this estimate stays conservative.
Stop paying for mis-hires.
yesnohire sits in every interview of this loop and flags the mistake before the offer — not months after.
THIS MIS-HIRE
$7,150
vs
WITH YESNOHIRE ON EVERY INTERVIEW
~$38
4h of interviews × $0.16/min — one loop, done right
Put yesnohire in your loop →~186× less than the mistake