# A 200-person information company loses about $3.6 million a year to employee turnover. Last updated November 1, 2026FreeNo signupFormula shown This turnover cost calculator for information starts from a turnover rate of 33.6% (BLS JOLTS, Information, 2025) and an average pay of $106,000 a year (September 2025 to August 2026), and it works out what a year of turnover costs at a replacement cost of 50% of pay. Change any number to match your company. BLS counts publishers, software publishers included, film and sound studios, broadcasters, telecommunications firms, and data processing and hosting firms. It has no separate rate for software or for tech alone, and this is the closest BLS industry. Number of employees Average annual salary (USD) Annual turnover rate (%) Don't know it? Use our [turnover rate calculator](https://www.teampredict.ai/tools/employee-turnover-rate-calculator) first. Replacement cost per departure (% of salary) Gallup estimates replacing an employee costs one-half to two times their annual salary. 50% is the low end of that range and a conservative place to start for a mixed team. What if you cut turnover by (points) Estimated departures per year 67.2 Estimated cost per departure $53,000 Estimated annual cost of turnover $3,561,600 teampredict.ai/tools/employee-turnover-cost-calculator Potential annual savings $318,000 if turnover drops by 3 percentage points Copy resultsCopy link Compare with your industryAll US employersTotal private  Mining and logging  Construction  Manufacturing    Durable goods manufacturing    Nondurable goods manufacturing  Trade, transportation, and utilities    Wholesale trade    Retail trade    Transportation, warehousing, and utilities  Information  Financial activities    Finance and insurance    Real estate and rental and leasing  Professional and business services  Private education and health services    Private educational services    Health care and social assistance  Leisure and hospitality    Arts, entertainment, and recreation    Accommodation and food services  Other servicesGovernment  Federal  State and local    State and local government education    State and local government, excluding education ## Your annual turnover rate of 33.6% matches the Information average of 33.6%. You33.6% Information average33.6% - Quits - Layoffs and discharges - Other exits - US average 39.7% At the Information average of 33.6%, a team of 200 would lose 67.2 people a year, and at 50% of a $106,000 salary that costs about **$3,561,600**, against **$3,561,600** at your rate. Averages are exits per 100 jobs over 2025, from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. See [every industry, year by year](https://www.teampredict.ai/employee-turnover-rate-by-industry). ## 200 people at 33.6% turnover lose 67.2 people a year, at $53,000 each. Departures a year 200 employees × 33.6% turnover 67.2 Cost per departure $106,000 salary × 50% replacement cost $53,000 Annual cost 67.2 departures × $53,000 $3,561,600 Saving from a 3-point cut 200 employees × 3% × $53,000 $318,000 The replacement cost percentage holds everything from the job ad to the months a new hire takes to get up to speed. ## Turnover costs a 50-person information company about $890,000 a year, a 200-person one about $3.6 million and a 1,000-person one about $17.8 million. Yearly cost of turnover in information at three company sizes Company size People who leave a year Cost of one departure Cost of turnover a year 50 people 16.8 $53,000 $890,400 200 people 67.2 $53,000 $3,561,600 1,000 people 336 $53,000 $17,808,000 People who leave = employees × 33.6%. Cost of one departure = $106,000 pay × 50%. Cost of turnover = people who leave × cost of one departure, the same sum as the calculator above. The highlighted row is what the calculator opens with. These three sizes use the same 33.6% rate and $106,000 pay. Your company is different, so put your own headcount, pay and rate in the calculator above, or start from the [main employee turnover cost calculator](https://www.teampredict.ai/tools/employee-turnover-cost-calculator). See your own team's flight risk in about a minute. [Check my team](https://www.teampredict.ai/tools/free-flight-risk-check) ## The turnover rate in information was 33.6% in 2025, against 39.7% for all US employers. _Figure: Separations per 100 jobs in information each year from 2015 to 2025. The rate starts at 34.6, peaks at 42.5 in 2020 and ends at 33.6. The US average ends at 39.7._ Separations per 100 jobs, 2015 to 2025. The dashed line is the US average. Source: BLS JOLTS, series JTU510000000000000TSR. The rate in information was 38.5% in 2019, the last year before the pandemic, peaked at 42.5% in 2020 and was 33.6% in 2025. That is 6.1 points below the US average of 39.7%. Every industry is in the [turnover rate by industry](https://www.teampredict.ai/employee-turnover-rate-by-industry) table, year by year. ## Layoffs and discharges are the largest share of exits from jobs in information, at 15.7 of the 33.6 exits per 100 jobs in 2025. BLS counts three kinds of exit. A quit is the employee's choice, a layoff or discharge is the employer's, and the rest, such as retirements and transfers, is the third kind. In information, quits are 46% of exits, against 60% for all US employers. BLS counts the quits but does not ask why people quit. _Figure: Of 33.6 exits per 100 jobs in information in 2025, 15.4 were quits, 15.7 were layoffs and discharges and 2.5 were other exits._ Exits per 100 jobs in 2025. Source: BLS JOLTS, quits, layoffs and discharges and total separations. Average pay in information is $106,000 a year, which is 159% of the $66,500 average for all private employers (BLS series CEU5000000011 and CEU0500000011, September 2025 to August 2026). ## A 5-point cut in turnover would save a 200-person information company about $530,000 a year. At $106,000 pay and a 50% replacement cost, one departure costs $53,000. A 5-point cut in turnover keeps 10 of 200 people a year, and 10 × $53,000 is $530,000. Move the "cut turnover by" slider in the calculator to try your own target. The part of turnover an employer can still change is the quits: 15.4 of the 33.6 exits per 100 jobs in information, against 15.7 layoffs and discharges, which the employer started. [Gallup found that 52% of employees who left voluntarily say their manager or organization could have done something to prevent it](https://www.gallup.com/workplace/247391/fixable-problem-costs-businesses-trillion.aspx), and 51% say that in the three months before they left, nobody spoke with them about their job satisfaction or their future with the company. ## The rate and the pay on this page come from public sources, and both are inputs you can change. Where each number on the page comes from Number Value Source Turnover rate 33.6% [BLS JOLTS, Information, 2025](https://www.bls.gov/jlt/), series JTU510000000000000TSR. Total separations per 100 jobs over 2025: the sum of the twelve monthly rates, which counts every kind of exit and reads like a company's own yearly turnover rate. Average pay $106,000 a year [BLS Current Employment Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/ces/), series CEU5000000011: the average weekly earnings of all employees, times 52 weeks, for September 2025 to August 2026 (the mean of the twelve months is $2,037.83 a week), to the nearest $100. BLS marks the latest month as preliminary. Replacement cost 50% of pay [Gallup, March 2019](https://www.gallup.com/workplace/247391/fixable-problem-costs-businesses-trillion.aspx): replacing an employee costs one-half to two times annual salary. 50% is the low end of that range. Company sizes 50, 200, 1,000 Chosen for comparison. The calculator opens at 200 people, and you can enter your own headcount. ## Three industries with a turnover rate near 33.6% each have a calculator page of their own. - [34.5% turnoverHealth care and social assistance](https://www.teampredict.ai/tools/employee-turnover-cost-calculator/health-care-and-social-assistance) - [29.3% turnoverManufacturing](https://www.teampredict.ai/tools/employee-turnover-cost-calculator/manufacturing) - [27.5% turnoverWholesale trade](https://www.teampredict.ai/tools/employee-turnover-cost-calculator/wholesale-trade) The [main calculator](https://www.teampredict.ai/tools/employee-turnover-cost-calculator) lists every industry. To see which of your own people are at risk, [run the free flight risk check](https://www.teampredict.ai/tools/free-flight-risk-check). See your own team's flight risk in about a minute. [Check my team](https://www.teampredict.ai/tools/free-flight-risk-check) ## Here are four questions about the cost of turnover in information, answered. How much does employee turnover cost in information? At the 33.6% rate and $106,000 average pay, turnover costs a 50-person information company about $890,400 a year, a 200-person one about $3,561,600 and a 1,000-person one about $17,808,000. That assumes each departure costs 50% of a year's pay, the low end of what Gallup found. What is the employee turnover rate in information? It was 33.6% in 2025, against 39.7% for all US employers (BLS JOLTS, Information, 2025). Total separations per 100 jobs over 2025: the sum of the twelve monthly rates, which counts every kind of exit and reads like a company's own yearly turnover rate. How does the calculator work out the cost? It multiplies the people who leave by the cost of replacing each one. For 200 people at 33.6%, that is 67.2 departures a year. At $106,000 pay and a 50% replacement cost, each costs $53,000, so the year costs $3,561,600. What pay does the calculator use for information? $106,000 a year, which is the average weekly earnings of all employees, times 52 weeks, for September 2025 to August 2026 (BLS series CEU5000000011), to the nearest $100. Put your own average pay in the calculator for a closer figure. ## Turnover is cheaper to prevent than to calculate. TeamPredict flags resignation risk early from public LinkedIn signals, giving you lead time to retain your best people before they hand in notice. [Start 30-Day Free Trial](https://app.teampredict.ai/signup) No charge today · Cancel anytime