{"id":1894,"date":"2026-09-10T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.persiahr.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1894"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:51:24","slug":"metric_cost_per_hire","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/help.persiahr.com\/en\/docs\/metric_cost_per_hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost per Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cost per Hire is the total amount a company spends\u2014both internally and externally\u2014to attract, evaluate, and hire one new employee.<\/p>\n<h3>Formula<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Cost per Hire = (Internal Costs + External Costs) \/ Total Number of Hires During the Period<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>How to Calculate<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>External costs: job board fees, advertising, ATS\/CRM subscriptions, external recruiting agencies, events, and employer branding activities.<\/li>\n<li>Internal costs: recruiter\/sourcer salaries, employee referral bonuses, and the time hiring managers spend on interviews.<\/li>\n<li>Add up all recruitment-related costs for the selected period (for example, a quarter) and divide the total by the number of people who started during that same period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Typical Benchmarks<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>High-volume \/ frontline hiring: $100\u2013$500.<\/li>\n<li>Mid-level \/ senior roles (IT, marketing, sales): $1,500\u2013$4,000.<\/li>\n<li>Top executive roles: $5,000\u2013$15,000+.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Improve<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase your use of free or low-cost channels, such as organic sourcing, LinkedIn, and employee referrals.<\/li>\n<li>Use conversion data to identify and stop spending on paid job boards that consistently underperform.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce reliance on external recruiting agencies by strengthening your in-house recruitment team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>\u00a9 PersiaHR<br \/>\nWhen republishing these materials, a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/persiahr.com\/\">PersiaHR<\/a> website is required.<\/h6>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cost per Hire is the total amount a company spends\u2014both internally and externally\u2014to attract, evaluate, and hire one new employee. 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