The Math

What Is Your Leadership Gap Costing?

Adjust the sliders to your team. The calculator pulls from Gallup research and SHRM replacement-cost data to give you a directional number — not an exact figure, but close enough to have an honest conversation.

Your Team

25 people
$75K
20%

Replacement cost multiplier: 1.75x — Source: SHRM, 2023

Annual turnover cost

$656,250

20% rate × $75K salary × 1.75x replacement cost

Cost of disengagement

$427,125

Gallup: 67% disengaged, each costing ~34% of salary

Manager effectiveness gap

$298,988

Gallup: 70% of team engagement variance explained by manager behavior

Total annual leadership gap

$1,083,375

Turnover + disengagement. Excludes safety and compliance risk.

Workshop ROI estimate

Workshop investment$5,000
10% turnover reduction$65,625 saved
First-year ROI1313%

Methodology & Sources

Replacement cost: 1.5x–2.0x annual salary by industry (SHRM, 2023)

Disengagement rate: 67% globally disengaged (Gallup State of the Global Workplace, 2023)

Disengagement cost: ~34% of annual salary per disengaged employee (Gallup)

Manager variance: 70% of team engagement variance explained by manager (Gallup)

ROI scenario: conservative 10% turnover reduction post-workshop

Estimates are directional. Actual impact varies by team and execution.

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