How many employees leave each year?
Employee Attrition Rate
Sector numbers
Attrition is the share of employees who left the company during the year.
In everyday life
If 15 of the 100 players in your cricket academy leave each year, you keep spending time and money training new ones.
How it's worked out
Example: Orbit Infotech, a made-up company that builds software for foreign clients.
In words: 15 of every 100 employees left this year.
Try it yourself
Move the sliders and watch the answer, the picture and the verdict change together.
15 of every 100 employees left this year.
- People who left
- The rest
Each dot is 1 of every 100 in “total employees”.
Rough guide
- Low
- Normal
- High
What's a good number?
- Low
Up to 12%
- Normal
12% to 20%
- High
Above 20%
Matters most where people are the product, like IT services. High attrition pushes up hiring and salary costs.
Key number in the sector guides for IT services.
How to read it
Good signs
- Attrition lower than rivals'.
Watch out for
- A jump in attrition often shows up as lower margins a few quarters later.
Read it with
For learning only. Example companies are made up, and the rough guides are rules of thumb, not targets. Nothing here is advice to buy or sell any stock.