Glossary

Cost Per Hire

The fully-loaded cost of acquiring a single hire, including agency fees, internal recruiter time, tooling and overhead.

Cost Per Hire (CPH) is the total cost incurred to make one hire, divided across all hires in a period. A complete CPH calculation includes external agency fees, internal recruiter salaries (loaded), sourcing tooling, ATS costs and a share of management overhead. SaaS scale-ups using RaaS typically see CPH fall 50 to 70 percent against agency-heavy baselines.

Related terms

RaaS (Recruitment as a Service)Saiyō's subscription product: embedded headhunters delivered on a flat monthly fee, replacing per-hire commercials.
Headcount PlanningThe process of deciding how many people to hire, into which functions, and when, in alignment with the financial plan.

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