Tool · Engineering staffing
What an open engineering role has already cost
The salary you are not paying is money in the bank. What costs you is the work that did not happen while the seat was empty. Put your own numbers in and this page does the arithmetic.
Why the seat stays open
The ManpowerGroup 2026 Global Talent Shortage Survey covers 39,063 employers in 41 countries. AI model and application development ranks first among hard-to-find skills globally. Separately, 69% of US employers report difficulty filling roles.
None of that tells you what your own vacancy is costing. Only your numbers do.
Your numbers
Nothing is stored and nothing is sent. The arithmetic runs in your browser.
What this leaves out
Every figure above is yours, multiplied. It leaves out the cost of the people who absorbed the work, the hours your engineers spent interviewing, and the second search if the first hire leaves inside a year.
It also does not compare anything to what we charge. That would make this a pitch.
When this will not help you
Anyone who cannot name what the work is worth. If no revenue, saving or committed date sits behind the role, this page outputs zero, and the question worth asking is why the req is open at all.
Bring the role and the date that has already moved.