Calculate ROI

1 Baseline
2 Compliance
3 Pay Equity
4 Turnover
5 Time Savings

Your organization

These numbers scale every result that follows.

Number of employees

Number of unique jobs in inventory

Average annual salary

HR Weekly poll found 50% of HR pros revise JDs only when filling a role and 25% at least annually (The HR Specialist).

Number of roles hired for per year

Compliance & legal risk

Existing formula, now scaled by your % of inaccurate JDs.

$0–$50k low, $75k avg, $125k high. Source: defending a case through discovery and summary judgment typically costs $75k–$125k; average through settlement ~$160k (Nakase Law Firm, citing Hiscox).

Illustrative assumption (1–12%/year). No published source links JD accuracy to litigation probability.

Pay equity & compensation accuracy

New section — ties directly to comp benchmarking and job leveling.

% of roles estimated to be mis-leveled due to inaccurate JDs

Default 8% of salary (assumption; upper end of the 2–8% adjusted pay gaps typically found in first-time pay equity analyses — Payscale 2024, via Hyring.)

Default $15k–$40k range, use midpoint (assumption; no published benchmark found)

Likelihood of an equity finding this year

Turnover

Existing quit-driven cost, plus a new time-to-fill cost.

Mercer 2025 US Turnover Survey: 13% voluntary (2,617 orgs); down from 17.3% in 2023 and 13.5% in 2024. Default to 13%.

Gallup (2019), “This Fixable Problem Costs U.S. Businesses $1 Trillion”: replacement cost of 0.5–2x annual salary, higher for senior roles.

Default 8% — ASU study citation unverified; confirm source or lower default. Supporting literature shows a modest effect: Earnest, Allen & Landis (2011), Personnel Psychology meta-analysis of 52 studies on accurate job information and voluntary turnover (r = −0.07).

Default 5–10 days (assumption; ≈13–26% of SHRM’s 2026 median time-to-fill of 39 days for non-executive roles)

Time savings

Existing section, now treated as a recurring annual cost.

120 min current default (consistent with a practitioner estimate of 2–3 hours per JD — Optimus Performance.)

$50 current default

Default: 1x per job per year, or tie to headcount/leveling-cycle changes

Estimated total annual savings

$0

Compliance & legal risk $0
Pay equity & comp accuracy $0
Turnover $0
Time-to-fill / vacancy $0
Time saved updating JDs $0

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