The Bad Hire Bill: Cost Calculator, Hiring Scorecard & 90-Day Gates

Four months at a fully-loaded $3,900. Seventy training hours nobody billed. The rework, the regular who met them on a bad day, the overtime that covered the slack, and hiring the replacement. 6.6 months of wages for four months of work — and the wage was the visible tenth of the iceberg. This workbook prices the mistake once, then installs the discipline that stops the next one.

How it works

• The Bill — eight honest inputs → the itemized cost of the last wrong hire, plus the number that changes behavior: what every extra month of "maybe they'll turn around" costs ($4,500 in the sample)
• The Filter — five weighted must-haves you write BEFORE meeting anyone, three candidates scored 1–5, a threshold that decides. Sample: the charming interviewer scores 3.4 and the quiet one scores 4.1
• The First 90 Days — four gates with criteria set on day one: day 7 basics (no coaching option — day-seven problems are day-ninety problems with seniority), day 30 core task, day 60 no rework, day 90 the would-you-hire-them-again test. Cut at the gate, not at month eight

Built for

Restaurants and cafes · trades and crews · salons and studios · retail · any owner who hires between doing the actual work.

What you get

One .xlsx file, four tabs, instant download. Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice. No macros, no subscription. Criteria, weights and thresholds all yours to edit.