Recruiting Yield Ratio Calculator

Calculate recruiting yield ratio, applicant yield, screening yield, interview yield, offer yield, hire yield, source yield, recruiting funnel conversion, and cost per hire. Use this HR calculator to understand how candidates move through each stage of your hiring funnel.

Calculate Recruiting Yield Ratio

Recruiting Yield Ratio = Candidates Who Move Forward ÷ Candidates At Previous Stage × 100.
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How the recruiting yield ratio calculator works

Overall recruiting yield:
The calculator divides hires by applicants to show the full funnel yield from application to hire.

Stage yield ratio:
The calculator compares each stage of the funnel, such as applicants to qualified applicants, screens to interviews, interviews to offers, and offers to hires.

Source yield ratio:
Source hires are divided by candidates from that source to measure candidate source efficiency.

Yield cost estimate:
The calculator estimates cost per applicant, cost per qualified applicant, cost per interview, cost per offer, cost per hire, and cost per source hire.

Why use a recruiting yield ratio calculator?

A recruiting yield ratio calculator helps HR teams, recruiters, and hiring managers understand which hiring stages and candidate sources are producing results.

It can help compare applicant quality, screening efficiency, interview efficiency, offer conversion, accepted offer rate, source quality, hiring yield, projected hires, and recruiting cost efficiency.

What your result means

Your result shows overall hire yield, qualification yield, screen yield, phone screen yield, interview yield, finalist yield, offer yield, accepted offer yield, source yield, projected hires, target gap, and recruiting cost per funnel stage. These figures are estimates based on the values you enter.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a recruiting yield ratio?

A recruiting yield ratio measures the percentage of candidates who move from one hiring stage to another or who become hires from a candidate source.

How do you calculate recruiting yield ratio?

Divide the number of candidates who moved forward by the number of candidates in the previous stage, then multiply by 100.

What is overall hire yield?

Overall hire yield is the percentage of total applicants who become hires.

What is source yield?

Source yield measures how many candidates from a specific source become hires compared with the total candidates from that source.

Why do recruiting yield ratios matter?

Yield ratios help identify where candidates are dropping out, where quality is strongest, and which recruiting sources create the best hiring results.