VerticalFit™ — Find the fit first. VerticalFit™ — Find the fit first.
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Your last bad hire cost you what?!

Most owners never add it up. Put in your own numbers and see the real cost: the wages, the training, the overtime, the lost work and the time spent hiring again.

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Your numbers

Think of one hire that didn’t work out. Estimates are fine, and you can leave a box empty.

$
Salary, or hourly rate × yearly hours.
From their first day to their last.
50 means they did about half the work.
Training, shadowing and supervising.
$
Use the pay of whoever did the training and hiring.
Posting, screening, interviewing, onboarding.
$
Job ads, background checks, recruiter fees.
$
Extra pay to cover their work.
$
A client who left, a job that had to be fixed.

Your answer

Your bad hire cost you about
$0

Start filling in your numbers. Your total appears here as you type.

How we calculate it
  • Wages that didn’t produce work = yearly pay ÷ 52 × weeks on the job × the share of the job they didn’t do.
  • Training = training hours × what an hour of your team’s time is worth.
  • Hiring their replacement = hiring hours × that same hourly value, plus out-of-pocket hiring costs.
  • Overtime and lost work are added as you enter them.
  • We count the replacement hire once. The original hire is not counted, so the total stays conservative.

Want this in writing?

We’ll email your full breakdown, plus a free sample Pre‑Hire Fit Report for your industry.

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Anthony, our founder, may follow up to answer questions. We never sell your information.

How VerticalFit helps prevent your next bad hire

A short assessment built for the exact role, so you see how a candidate is likely to handle the job before you make the offer.

  1. Send a link

    Pick the role in your employer portal and send the candidate their own assessment link.

  2. They take it

    50 short statements about how they tend to work, about 15 to 20 minutes, no account needed.

  3. You get the report

    Scored automatically and emailed to your hiring team, with what to probe in the interview.

Questions

Where do the numbers come from?

From you. The calculator doesn’t use industry averages or outside statistics. The placeholder numbers in each box are only examples.

Why do you ask for my email and phone number?

So we can send you your total, a line-by-line breakdown and a free sample hiring report for your industry, and so Anthony can answer any questions. We never sell your information, and you can unsubscribe any time.

Why is the replacement hire counted but not the original one?

You’d have paid to hire someone for that seat either way. What the bad hire added is the cost of doing it again, so that’s the part we count.

What does VerticalFit cost?

$89/month plus applicable sales tax for unlimited assessments, for employers who subscribe by December 31, 2026, locked in for as long as you stay subscribed. After that, new subscribers pay $119/month.

Find the fit first.

Unlimited role-specific assessments for Texas employers. No setup fee and no per-test charges.

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