ROI Calculator

What are capability gaps costing your business?

A quick, plain-English estimate of the annual cost of onboarding, leavers, weaker management and lost productivity - and the return on a targeted learning investment.

Workforce

How many people work in your organisation?

Average employee salary

New joiners in the last 12 months

Days for a new joiner to get up to speed

People leaving

Number of leavers in the last 12 months

Cost to replace one person (recruitment + lost productivity)

Managers

Total number of managers

Average number of people each manager leads

How many of your managers would benefit from development?

Skills & quality

How confident are managers in your team's capability today?

How often do employees need support or correction to complete work accurately?

Revenue retention (NRR)

Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)

Current Net Revenue Retention

Investment

Annual learning & development budget you'd consider investing

Built-in assumptions: new joiners work at 50% productivity while ramping up; managers who need development cost roughly 8% of their team's salary in lost performance; your manager-confidence and support-frequency answers translate into days and hours lost per employee per year, costed at the salary rate above.

Estimated annual cost of inaction

£3,587,978

Across 6 of 6 categories.

Cost breakdown

Replacing leavers
Cost of replacing people who left the business in the last year.
£900,000
Onboarding drag
Lost productivity while new joiners get up to full speed.
£704,348
Management capability
Performance lost under managers who would benefit from development.
£432,000
Productivity lost to skills gaps
Working days lost across the year because people lack the skills they need.
£489,130
Avoidable mistakes & rework
Cost of errors and rework that better training would prevent.
£562,500
NRR shortfall
Revenue lost each year because Net Revenue Retention sits below 100%.
£500,000

Savings scenarios

Proposed investment

£150,000

Estimated ROI at 10%

+139%

Recommended next step

At a 10% improvement, a £150,000 learning investment could unlock around £358,798 in annual value - a strong return. Your largest exposure is in replacing leavers, so that's the most natural place to target a learning intervention first.

These figures are directional estimates based on the inputs you provided. Validate with your finance and people analytics teams before using them in business cases or board reporting.

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