The line item nobody has named, in a budget you already own.
Replacing a senior employee costs up to twice her salary. A woman leaving at 48 on a salary of
150,000 United States dollars costs 300,000 to replace.
One in eight working women aged 45 to 60 has already had an adverse work outcome from
symptoms nobody at work has a word for. One in ten has missed work because of them. In the
United States alone, that is 1.8 billion dollars a year in lost work time, 26.6 billion with
medical costs.
The number is already in your attrition data, split by age band and gender. It takes an
afternoon to find. Almost nobody has looked.
Sources: Gallup and the
Society for Human Resource Management, replacement-cost benchmarks; Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2023.