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What is team turnover costing you?

Estimate the annual cost of low team health and compare it to the cost of a Arenevo plan.

Team size Number of people on the team
Average annual salary (€)
Annual turnover rate (%)
Arenevo plan

Estimated annual cost of turnover

€44,550

Based on an industry rule-of-thumb replacement cost of 33% of annual salary per departing employee.

Arenevo plan cost

€490/yr

Estimated ROI

90.9×

Potential annual savings: €44,060/yr

These figures are estimates based on industry-average assumptions, not a guarantee of results. Actual savings depend on your team and how consistently you act on insights.

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Methodology

How we calculate your estimate

Transparency matters. Here's exactly what goes into the number above — and what we deliberately leave out.

Team size × Turnover rate × Average salary × 33% replacement cost = Estimated annual cost of turnover

Team size

The headcount you entered above. Turnover cost scales linearly with team size — twice the team, twice the exposure.

Annual turnover rate

The share of that team you expect to lose and replace within a year. No internal number yet? Divide last year's departures by your average headcount as a starting point.

Average salary

Base annual salary only. Bonuses, equity, and benefits aren't included, which makes this a conservative floor — not a worst case.

Replacement cost factor (33%)

This is the part doing the real work. It's the percentage of an employee's annual salary it typically costs to replace them — recruiting, onboarding, training, and the productivity dip while a replacement ramps up to full output. We use one-third of salary because it sits at the realistic mid-point of published turnover-cost research: easily backfilled roles often land closer to 15–20%, while specialised or senior roles regularly exceed 100%. 33% keeps the estimate defensible rather than alarmist.

Which market this is based on

This calculator is built around European SME and mid-market hiring norms — the audience Arenevo serves day to day. If you operate somewhere with materially different recruiting costs, notice periods, or severance norms, treat the result as directional rather than a quote. The 33% factor is intentionally industry-agnostic, so it holds up whether you run a five-person consultancy or a fifty-person operations team.

What's included

  • Recruiting and hiring costs — job ads, agency or referral fees, interview time
  • Onboarding and training time for the new hire and their manager
  • The productivity gap between a departure and a fully ramped replacement

What's deliberately left out

  • Severance pay and notice-period costs
  • Lost institutional knowledge and client relationships
  • The knock-on effect on the remaining team's morale and workload — exactly what Arenevo's Perception Gap Engine is built to surface before it turns into a resignation

Questions about the methodology

Because it's the realistic mid-point, not the headline-grabbing extreme. Published figures range from 16% to over 200% of salary depending on seniority and role scarcity — 33% is the figure most commonly cited as a general benchmark across roles and industries.
No — it's a general-purpose benchmark, not an industry-specific model. Use the result directionally: it shows you the order of magnitude of what turnover is likely costing you, not an exact figure for your sector.
No. This calculator runs on public industry benchmarks before you've even created an account. Once you're using Arenevo, your Health Score, Perception Gap, and AI-generated actions are built entirely from your own team's anonymous survey responses — never from industry averages.
Because turnover cost is multiplicative, not additive — a small change in turnover rate or average salary moves the total a lot. That sensitivity is intentional: it's exactly why a one- or two-point improvement in team health can be worth more than it looks on a survey dashboard.

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