What's your onboarding really costing you?
Discover the hidden costs of inefficient onboarding that are quietly draining your resources — from lost productivity to early turnover — and see how much your organisation could save by switching to a streamlined, data-driven onboarding process.
Reveal hidden costs and boost efficiency with our onboarding ROI calculator.

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FAQs
Here you will find answers to the most pending questions.
An onboarding ROI calculator is a tool that estimates the return on investment of your employee onboarding process. It measures both the costs, such as time, salary, and admin work, and the benefits, like faster productivity and reduced turnover. The result shows how effective and efficient your onboarding really is.
Measuring onboarding ROI helps you understand the true impact of your onboarding process. It highlights where your company is spending too much time or money, and where there’s room for improvement. With these insights, HR teams can reduce costs, improve new hire experiences, and help employees become productive faster.
You’ll need to fill in a few key details:
– How many people you hire each year
– The average salary range for those hires
– Your first-year employee turnover rate
– How long it takes new hires to become fully productive
– The number of hours spent on onboarding by HR, managers, and the new hires themselves
The calculator uses this information to estimate your total onboarding costs, including time, salary, and productivity loss
It multiplies the number of hours spent on onboarding by the hourly rates of HR, managers, and new hires. Then it adds additional costs like setup time and admin tasks. It also includes hidden costs, such as the time it takes for new hires to reach full productivity and the cost of replacing employees who leave early.
All these factors are combined to give you a total annual onboarding cost and the average cost per new hire.
• Productivity ramp‑up: the value lost while a new hire is not yet fully productive.
• Admin overhead: the total cost of time spent by HR, managers, and new hires on onboarding tasks like forms, training, and setup.
• Early turnover: replacement costs when new hires leave in the first year.
The calculator compares your onboarding process to benchmark data to show where you could save time and reduce costs.
Appical’s onboarding software simplifies administrative tasks, helps new employees become productive faster, and provides structure throughout the entire onboarding journey.
The results are estimates based on the information you provide. The more accurate your data, the more useful the outcome.
If you’d like a deeper look at your onboarding process and guidance on how to improve your onboarding process, you can request a free onboarding assessment. We’ll be happy to support you.
Want more information on the ROI Calculator? Send an email to marketing@appical.com.