Two rates over the workforce, plus the cost to replace.
Your turnover
Enter the average workforce and the departures to see the rates. Departures and the cost to replace alone already give the cost figure.
How to read itThere is no universal healthy rate. Read it against your own season: harvest inflates departures. The cost to replace a worker has no published farm benchmark: estimates pooled from other sectors run from two percent to almost one hundred and fifty percent of the job’s annual pay. The number that counts is your own.
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Enter the workforce and the departures, or the departures and the cost to replace, to generate the report.
How much of your workforce you had to replace, and what it cost. Enter the average workforce and the departures and see, right away, the separation rate, the classic rate and the bill for replacing those who left.
Eight departures from a crew of twenty reads as forty percent, but the same season returns a different rate depending on the denominator you pick, the crew at the start, the average over the year, or the posts instead of the people, so the tool gives you two and shows the gap.
Naming the rate is the easy half. What the cost turns on is a per-departure figure no published source has for your farm, and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, reviewing thirty-one case studies, warns that many businesses underestimate what high turnover costs them, which is why the tool asks for your own number rather than printing one.