The Hidden Cost of Burnout
See your team's burnout cost in under a minute. Enter your team size and average salary, adjust the burnout slider to match your workplace, and the estimate updates instantly.
Calculate your costWhat is burnout quietly costing your team?
Enter a few numbers about your workplace. The estimate updates as you go, and every assumption behind it is adjustable and explained below.
Gallup found about 23% of full-time employees feel burned out very often or always.
Adjust the assumptions
An estimate you set. 10% equals about half a day of reduced output each week.
Statistics Canada has historically reported about 9 days per full-time worker.
The share of staff who leave in an average year at your organization.
Gallup's range is 50% to 200%. The default uses the low end.
How this calculator works
The estimate adds up three costs that burnout creates. Each one is calculated only for the share of staff experiencing frequent burnout, so the result reflects the burnout gap rather than your whole payroll.
Reduced output
The share of salary lost while burned-out employees are at work but running low.
Burned-out staff × salary × productivity lostExtra sick days
Gallup found burned-out employees are 63% more likely to take a sick day. The calculator adds 63% on top of typical sick days for that group.
Extra days × daily salary (salary ÷ 250)Added turnover
Gallup found burned-out employees are 2.6 times as likely to be looking for another job. That extra likelihood is applied to your normal turnover rate.
Extra departures × cost to replaceWhy the defaults are conservative
The 2.6× figure measures job searching, and not everyone who searches actually leaves. To balance that, replacement cost defaults to the low end of Gallup's range. The productivity figure is an adjustable estimate, since research on exact output loss varies widely.
The goal is a number a finance team can trust, so every assumption can be changed to match your own data.
Sources
- Gallup, Employee Burnout: The 5 Main Causes (burnout prevalence, sick days, job seeking)
- Gallup, This Fixable Problem Costs U.S. Businesses $1 Trillion (replacement cost)
- Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey work absence data (typical days lost per full-time employee)
This tool gives an estimate for planning purposes and is not a financial audit.
Built by someone who's been there
Salmeen Choudhury founded Somatiques after living through burnout herself. She knows what it feels like to keep showing up, keep delivering, and quietly run on empty.
Breathwork and somatic practice helped her find her way back. Now, with a background in chemistry and nanotechnology, she brings that same calm, science-based approach to teams across Toronto and the GTA, so they can recover before burnout takes hold.
- Certified somatic healing practitioner
- Certified pranayama breathwork instructor
- Licensed esthetician
- BSc in Chemistry, MSc in Nanotechnology