Role details
Figures are pre-loaded with benchmarks for a mid/senior IT role in UK Life Sciences. Edit any number to reflect your environment.
Management time
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Every hour spent reviewing unsuitable CVs, unaligned candidates, or rebriefing because the brief wasn't right first time is an hour with a real cost.
Team capacity cost
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A well-run process typically takes 4 to 6 weeks. Every week beyond that compounds. In a regulated environment, stretched teams don't just slow down, processes lose consistency and audit trails start to show it.
External spend
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The day rate is the cost. No additional employer obligations.
Consultancy
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Single consultant cost
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At £1,500 per day, one week of cover costs £7,500. That's 10% of a £75,000 salary spent in five days. Over 26 weeks, the total reaches £195,000.
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Consultancy team cost
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Sometimes a consultancy team is needed. The problem is when spend is plugging a gap that permanent hires should have filled.
Delivery impact
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Delayed releases, pushed validation windows and compliance gaps almost never get linked to a recruitment problem. They should. In a regulated environment, a missed submission or delayed validation costs far more than the figure here (e.g. a delayed CSV validation can run £250k to £2m depending on the programme). This captures the direct cost only.
Onboarding cost
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Time to full productivity runs at 3 to 12 months. For mid/senior roles in regulated environments, 6 months is the median. If the wrong hire was made, that cost compounds on top of everything else.
Employer cost multiplier covers NI at 15% above £5,000, pension at 10% (sector range 8 to 12), and £1,200 in healthcare and life insurance. Excludes bonuses and benefits in kind.
Employer cost multiplier covers NI at 15% above £5,000, pension at 10% (sector range 8 to 12), and £1,200 in healthcare and life insurance. Excludes bonuses and benefits in kind.
Failed hire
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Includes employer NI at 15% above £5,000, pension at 10% (sector range 8 to 12), and £1,200 in healthcare and life insurance. Excludes bonuses and benefits in kind. Adds a further 20% to cover management fallout, team disruption and rehire costs.
Industry consensus places the cost of a failed mid/senior hire at 100% to 250% of annual salary. This calculator applies 150%, conservative for a Life Sciences IT role.
In regulated environments, failed hires often surface late. During audit, inspection or validation, not during probation. The cost compounds because the gap was invisible until it wasn't.
Industry consensus places the cost of a failed mid/senior hire at 100% to 250% of annual salary. This calculator applies 150%, conservative for a Life Sciences IT role.
In regulated environments, failed hires often surface late. During audit, inspection or validation, not during probation. The cost compounds because the gap was invisible until it wasn't.
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Enter the actual or estimated figure. This cost almost never appears on a hiring budget, but it's directly caused by one.