Dental office turnover cost calculator

Your last associate who quit cost you $40K-60K to replace. Most practices don't measure this properly.

Add it up: lost production during the vacancy (3-6 months of associate hours at your collection rate), recruitment fees ($2K-5K), training payroll overlap (8-12 weeks of extra staff payroll), credentialing delays, and the patients who switched practices during the gap. That's real money.

A healthy practice runs 3-5% annual turnover in clinical staff. You're probably above that. Why? Because associates are paid wrong. They chase case acceptance rate and production bonuses, but operators pocket the difference. Associates see the gap. They leave.

Start treating turnover as a financial metric. Calculate it. If you're losing an associate every 18 months instead of every 3 years, that's $80K-120K annual drag on your bottom line. That's a full-time role worth of wasted cash.

Fix compensation structure or lose money forever. Standardize associate pay to production after 6-month ramp. Remove the guessing. Replace one person per year? That's a choice you're making with your margin.