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On average, employee absence accounts for the equivalent of 35% of base payroll.*

Employee absence can take many forms: vacation; sick time; and government-regulated leave, like FMLA. Each of these absence types — whether planned, incidental, or extended — carries with it its own costs, management headaches, risks, and productivity hits.


Absence Cost Calculator
         
    Number of employees:  
    Annual average salary:
$43,000
  
    Total payroll:
$43,000,000
  
         
    Absence costs    
 
Planned absence: short or moderate-duration absences, such as vacations and holidays, where the supervisor knows about, and has likely approved, the absence in advance
 Planned absence costs:
$11,180,000
  
 
Incidental absence: absences of five work days or less, such as casual sick days, where the occurrence was not known and approved ahead of time by the employee’s supervisor
 Incidental absence costs:
$2,494,000
  
 
Extended absence: absences lasting beyond one week, often unplanned, and generally due to a disability and/or qualifying as a leave under the U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) or a state equivalent
 Extended absence costs:
$1,247,000
  
    Estimated annual costs of absence:
$14,921,000
  
         
    Estimated savings    
    If you reduced the cost of absence by:  %  
    Your estimated annual savings would be:
$596,840
  
         
Calculate Absence Cost
         
   

Annual salary: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Absence Costs source: Mercer, 2010

    

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*Source: "Survey on the Total Financial Impact of Employee Absences," Mercer (2010). The total costs of all major absence categories, including direct and indirect costs, average an equivalent of 35% of base payroll.