Cost-Per-Hire Teardown — the hidden tax on every bad recruiting process (and how to kill it).
A line-item breakdown of where money leaks out of your hiring funnel — and the four levers that reliably take cost-per-hire down without hurting quality.
- The complete cost-per-hire formula (with the line items most people forget)
- Benchmarks by role level, function, and company size
- Where the four biggest savings live — and how to attack each one
- A free spreadsheet model you can plug your own numbers into
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- 01The real cost-per-hire formula (everything most calculators miss)
- 02Industry benchmarks — what 'good' actually looks like
- 03The four cost levers: screening, scheduling, sourcing, tooling
- 04What a bad hire really costs (with the citations)
- 05Recruiter productivity: hires-per-recruiter benchmarks
- 06The vacancy-cost line item nobody calculates
- 07A 90-day cost-down plan
- 08Plug-in spreadsheet + sources
Pulled from TA P&L reviews with founders, heads of talent, and CFOs at 30+ growth-stage companies.
Three of the four cost levers in this teardown — screening, scheduling, and reviewing — collapse into one product surface in Screeq. We built the teardown because customers kept asking us to prove the ROI on paper before they switched.
FAQ
Is the spreadsheet really included?+
Yes — the last page links to a Google Sheet template you can copy. No email gate, no second form.
Does this work for agencies?+
Yes. The cost model has a separate section for billable-vs-bench economics and per-recruiter throughput.
Are the benchmarks sourced?+
Every benchmark in the PDF has a working URL to the original report (SHRM, LinkedIn, Workable, etc.). No 'industry studies' without a link.
What if my CFO wants a model, not a guide?+
The spreadsheet IS the model. The guide explains how to fill it in and what the outputs mean.