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 USD 150,000
costs USD 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 US
alone, that is USD 1.8 billion a year in lost work time, USD 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
SHRM replacement-cost benchmarks; Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2023.