Everything below runs on annual hires — your monthly figure × 12 = 360/year. The plan tier is set by the monthly number (30/mo → Growth), exactly like billing. No double-counting: the two money inputs cover different things, explained next.
The two numbers you type
Cost to fill one role ($2,000). What it costs to find one person: job-board spend, the hours a recruiter and a manager put into sourcing and screening, and offer paperwork. It does notinclude training — that lives in the ramp line below, so nothing is counted twice. We default to a deliberately low frontline figure; SHRM’s all-roles average is roughly double, but that blends in salaried roles.
Weekly pay ($600). The gross wage you hand one frontline worker each week (about $15/hour over a 40-hour week). It is the price tag on a week of their time — used only to value the weeks lost to slow ramp.
The three losses
No-shows before day 1 = annual hires × 10% × cost to fill a role. In peak-season frontline hiring, no-show rates can run much higher; we use a conservative 10% (about 1 in 10). Each one means you pay to source the role a second time.
First-90-day churn = annual hires × 20% × cost to fill a role. Frontline early turnover is high and onboarding is its biggest lever (Brandon Hall Group, SHRM); we only count the slice a structured journey realistically prevents.
Slow ramp = the hires who actually start (annual hires − 10% no-shows) × 2 extra weeks × weekly pay × 50%. Without a structured journey a hire takes ~2 extra weeks to run their station alone; over those weeks you pay full wage for roughly half the output, so half the wage is money for work you did not get.
Recoverable range. Only 25–50% of the total — the part a structured journey can realistically claw back, and only if you act on it. A tool nobody opens recovers nothing. This is the honest number to plan against, not the headline.
On the multiple. At 30 hires a month and these inputs, the recoverable range works out to 43×–86× the $2,388 Growth plan. We deliberately cap the headline at “10×+” and lead with the recoverable amount instead — a believable claim matters more than a big one.
All figures are in US dollars. This is an estimate to frame the conversation, not a quote — your own numbers will differ, which is exactly why both boxes are editable.