Every hour your director spends screening resumes is an hour not spent on families, staff,
or the classroom. See what DIY recruiting is really costing you below.
Time cost = salary loaded with payroll taxes and benefits, ÷ 2,080 work hours × recruiting hours × 52 weeks. Estimates only. You focus on the children, the families, and the mission. We will handle recruiting.
This calculator estimates what it costs a preschool or child care center to recruit staff in-house. It adds two costs: the director’s time spent on hiring and the money spent on job boards.
Director time cost = annual salary × (1 + payroll taxes and benefits %) ÷ 2,080 work hours × hours per week spent recruiting × 52 weeks.
Job board spend = monthly Indeed or job board budget × 12.
Example: a director earning $85,000 with a 30% benefits load costs about $53 an hour. Eight hours a week on recruiting is $22,100 a year of director time. Add $500 a month in job ads ($6,000 a year) and in-house recruiting costs $28,100 a year, plus 416 hours that could go back to families, staff and classrooms.
What it leaves out: interview time from other staff, overtime to cover open shifts, and the cost of a hire who does not work out. All results are estimates.
Hire Up Recruiting writes, posts and pays for job ads, screens every candidate by phone, and sends you resumes with recruiter notes, so your director only interviews qualified educators. See how direct-hire staffing works.
