Financial impact estimate
Estimate your agency's pre-offer screening cost exposure.
Enter current hiring volume and pass rates. The calculator projects investigator hours and out-of-pocket screening costs that early behavioral risk patterning is likely to prevent across the year.
Agency metrics
Annual target recruits (hires)
15 hires/yr
Historical applicant:hire ratio
10:1 ratio
Historical background pass rate
30% pass rate
Calculated volume: 150 total applicants
Projected impact report
First-year financial impact
Generated 7/11/2026
Sunk background costs prevented
16 dropouts stopped early
Bad hires deflected
2 high-risk hires prevented
Forevue investment
Annual platform plus usage
Net financial impact
First-year net ROI
1. Average cost per bad applicant advanced derived from BJS municipal liability and Force Science Institute recruitment data (2022 to 2024). Includes unrecoverable FTO, academy, and vetting hours.
2. The 15% preventable washout rate is a baseline estimate representing applicants who fail post-offer psych or polygraph but exhibited pre-offer behavioral indicators.
3. Forevue investment includes $4,900 annual platform access (140 applicants included) and $35 per applicant overage. Setup cost is $0.
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