District Costs of Teacher Turnover

A district experiences teacher turnover costs at two levels: 1) the central office expends resources when recruiting, hiring, processing, and training teachers; and 2) schools incur costs when employees interview, hire, process, orient, and develop new teachers.

To calculate the cost of teacher turnover to your district, you will begin by calculating central office costs. You will then calculate the school-level costs of teacher turnover. The calculator will add the school-level costs and the central office costs to generate an estimate of the total cost of teacher turnover to your district.