Cost-per-hire calculator (SHRM/ANSI) API

Compute the SHRM/ANSI cost-per-hire = (internal recruiting costs + external recruiting costs) / number of hires. Deterministic recruiting-metrics math. Answers 'what's our cost per hire','recruiting cost divided by hires','CPH for 10 hires at $50k spend'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/calc/hr-cost-per-hire

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

CacheNo cache

hrrecruitingcost-per-hiretalentmetricscalchiringshrm

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/calc/hr-cost-per-hire

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "internalCosts": 20000,
  "externalCosts": 30000,
  "hires": 10
}

Example response

{
  "internalCosts": 20000,
  "externalCosts": 30000,
  "totalRecruitingCost": 50000,
  "hires": 10,
  "costPerHire": 5000
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "hires"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "internalCosts": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 0,
      "description": "Internal recruiting costs in dollars (sourcing, referrals, recruiter salaries)",
      "examples": [
        20000
      ]
    },
    "externalCosts": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 0,
      "description": "External recruiting costs (agencies, ads, job boards)",
      "examples": [
        30000
      ]
    },
    "hires": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Number of hires in the period",
      "examples": [
        10
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}