Turnover Rate Calculator

Retaining employees can be an issue, but just how big of an issue is it for your business? Find the turnover rate to determine how serious the situation may be.

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What it is

What is Turnover Rate?

Create Date: October 2, 2024

Last Modified Date: December 2, 2024

Turnover rate refers to the percent of a company's workforce that quits in a given timeframe. It compares the number of employees who quit to the number of staff there were on average in a specific timeframe to give you a better understanding of the scale of the situation.

How to Calculate Turnover Rate

Calculating turnover rate is going to require two variables: average number of employees and total number of employees who left. You will have to find these numbers by choosing a period of time, it can be two weeks, six months, one year, however long you want your window of evaluation to be.

After picking your timeframe and getting the values of these variables, you would then plug them into this formula:

An image of the equation used for calculating the turnover rate over a period of time.
Where:
  • TR = Turnover rate

  • NE = Number of employees that left during the timeframe

  • AE = Average number of employees employed during the timeframe

Understanding Your Results

When you use a turnover rate calculator your result will be a single number that is displayed as a percentage. This percentage represents the percent of people that have left the company in a certain timeframe compared to the average amount of employees over that same timeframe. The higher the number, the higher the turnover rate is which is a bad thing. You do not want your turnover rate to be too high, otherwise it may be a sign that your business has some large issues that need to be addressed.

How to Use the Turnover Rate Calculator

If you want to discover what your business' turnover rate is, you can simply use this tool! The steps required are:

  1. Have a timeframe in mind that you want to evaluate the turnover rate for. This timeframe is not going to be entered anywhere but is required for the variables.

  2. Enter the average employee count during the timeframe you are evaluating.

  3. Enter the total number of employees that left during the timeframe that you are evaluating.

  4. Hit the calculate button and get your turnover rate within seconds!

Calculation Example

You run a local floral shop, you notice there is another person quitting in 2 weeks, making them the 5th person to quit in just the last 3 months. You want to find your turnover rate over these last 3 months, but first need to identify the average number of employees you had over this period of time.

After looking into some paperwork, you find that you had on average, 19 employees, these last 3 months. You then plug these values into this tool, 19 into the average employee count field and 5 in the number of employees that left field.

You hit the calculate button and discover that your turnover rate is 26.32%! That is a very high turnover rate and will prompt some internal investigation to find out the cause of this.

Employee Turnover - Frequently Asked Questions

There are many reasons employee turnover is bad, for starters you will be losing important and valued team members if your team is beginning to quit. You will have to retrain people who may not be as effective or as good of a fit as prior employees, and it also may lead to trouble scaling in terms of profit and success as well as hiring new team members.

Yes, it is a bad sign for both the employer and perspective new hires. Employers will need to realize something is very wrong and their success is at risk and perspective hires will be able to feel there is something wrong with the work situation if many people are quitting.

A healthy level of turnover is generally considered to be about 10%. There are certain situations where this number is expected to be higher or lower, but this is a good level to be at for most businesses.

Yes, companies care a lot about turnover as it will throw a wrench into business plans and processes while costing the business more money.

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