Most organizations know they have a people problem. Almost none have calculated what it actually costs them — every year, in every department, compounding silently across their entire workforce.
Adjust the inputs to match your organization. The calculator applies Peak's Psychological Maturity cost model — developed across four decades of workforce research — to produce a defensible annual cost estimate.
Every figure in this calculator is grounded in published research and four decades of workforce observation. This is not an estimate — it is a model built on measurable behavioral outcomes.
Based on SHRM's established model: replacement cost ranges from 50% of annual salary for entry-level to 200%+ for senior roles, including recruiting fees, onboarding time, and productivity ramp period. PM-attributable turnover is isolated using research from Leadership IQ and the Center for Creative Leadership showing 45–75% of involuntary separations trace to behavioral deficits — not skills.
Gallup's State of the Global Workplace Report consistently documents that actively disengaged employees produce at 60–75% of their potential — a 25–40% productivity drag. Cultural drag — the documented productivity reduction in high performers working alongside underperformers — is calculated at 8–15% of surrounding team members' output, based on research from Stanford and the University of Minnesota.
Management burden is calculated as redirected leadership capacity — hours spent managing behavioral issues rather than developing high performers and executing strategy. Onboarding waste captures the training and development investment made in employees who plateau below full performance due to PM deficits, based on average onboarding costs of 16–20% of annual salary.
Peak's Six Unmeasurables — Ownership, Initiative, Follow-Through, Interest, Presence, and Fear — are the behavioral dimensions whose absence drives every cost category in this calculator. An employee who lacks Ownership generates management burden. One who lacks Follow-Through drives onboarding waste. One driven by Fear produces cultural drag. The connection between behavioral deficit and financial cost is direct and measurable.
Default values in this calculator are set conservatively — below research midpoints in every category. The true cost in most organizations is higher. The purpose of this tool is not to alarm — it is to create an honest accounting of what organizations are already paying, whether they have calculated it or not.
KAIROS Behavioral Intelligence was built to prevent these costs at the source — before the hire is made. The return on behavioral assessment investment is calculated as total PM cost minus assessment cost, divided by assessment cost. In most organizations, a single prevented bad hire pays for an entire year of KAIROS access. The calculator shows the problem. KAIROS is the solution.
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Every dollar this calculator identifies is a dollar spent on behavioral deficits that were already present when the person was hired. KAIROS measures those deficits before the offer letter is signed — so you hire who someone actually is, not who they presented as in an interview.