What’s the cost of delayed hiring for your IT team?

Our cost of delayed hiring calculator shows contract and salary-based hiring impact in real dollars—instantly.

Trusted by teams who can’t afford hiring delays

We help scaling teams recover momentum and stay focused, even when roles sit open longer than they should.

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Fast
First Candidates

Most of our clients receive a qualified shortlist within 3–5 business days.

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Proven
at Scale

We’ve filled over 200 tech roles across product, data, and infrastructure teams.

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High
Extension Rate

90% of our contract placements are extended beyond the initial term

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Delivery Impact,
Quantified

Clients report an average 18% reduction in delivery delays after hiring our candidates.

When the right person starts, the team moves again.

We stand behind every hire with a 90-day guarantee

How the Calculator Works

Built for hiring leads who’ve had roles sit open longer than expected.

Choose a
Role Type

Select from the roles we fill most grouped by function and delivery risk.

Input
Weeks Unfilled

Enter how long the role’s been open, using working days as the baseline.

Salary
Data Applied

Follows issues to resolution and makes handoffs easier.

Role
Weighting Added

Each role is weighted based on how it slows teams down.

See Your
Delay Cost

The calculator shows the total cost of unfilled roles to date.

Estimate the Real Cost of Hiring Delays

Select a role, input how long it’s been unfilled, and see the daily and total cost of that gap.

What That Delay Is Costing You

When a critical tech hire stays unfilled, the delays ripple.

Use our cost of delayed hiring calculator to estimate the actual cost of waiting, based on role type, salary benchmarks, and delivery slowdown impact.

Contract recruiting can close that gap faster than full-time hiring. STACK IT delivers embedded talent without the wait.

How we calculate this:

  • DORA (Google Cloud)
  • Scrum.org & Atlassian Agile research
  • STACK IT’s own salary benchmarks and velocity data
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How Long has the role been unfilled?

One unfilled role can set delivery back weeks. Now you can measure how much that costs.

What You Should Know About Delayed Hires

That depends on the role. But once teams start shifting work around or slipping on delivery, it’s already late. This calculator shows what that delay costs in real terms.

The calculator is built around tech roles we place most often: engineering, product, systems, analytics. It’s not designed for general admin or non-specialist roles.

That’s exactly when this is useful. Most hiring delays hit hardest before interviews even begin. This tool helps you make the case for support before more time slips.

They reflect how much delivery slows when a specific role is unfilled, based on Agile team research, DORA metrics, and our own placement outcomes.

Yes. That’s what it’s built for. The output can support budget requests, timeline adjustments, or shifting to a contract model to close the gap faster.

Need Help Filling That Role?

We’ll walk you through what fast, high-fit hiring can look like.

That’s our STACK.

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