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Cost Per Hire: United Kingdom (CIPD)
Recruiting · current reference
No open benchmark
CIPD publishes a UK median cost-per-hire table — table and methodology confirmed, no £ figure reproduced here.
What exists instead
StatusSourcing gap, stated
Published hereWhat the sourcing actually found
Publisher(s)
No open, official cross-industry benchmark was identified during sourcing. Rather than publish a synthetic average, this page shows the evidence that does exist and names the gap.
One Source, One Number
This page is the UK/CIPD pointer on its own, split out from the combined cost-per-hire page. SHRM publishes an open average cost-per-hire figure for the US — see Cost Per Hire: United States (SHRM). The two are never blended into one figure on this site.
Gap honesty
UK: What CIPD Publishes (And What We Don’t Repeat)
Where no verifiable open benchmark exists, we say so — instead of publishing a number that doesn’t hold up.
Median cost-per-hire table (existence + methodology only) · UK, senior vs. other roles, private/public/non-profit
CIPD 2024 Resourcing and Talent Planning, Table 1: median cost-per-hire for senior vs. other roles, broken down by private/public/non-profit sector, with history back to 2011. Respondent caveat stated explicitly: n=246 (senior) / n=207 (other roles). NO £ figures are reproduced here — only the table's existence and methodology were confirmed during sourcing.
Source: CIPD, Resourcing and Talent Planning 2024 (excerpt, © CIPD) · 2024 report (covers 2022 data point; historikk til 2011)