Inspirus planning tool2027 recognition budget planner
Your CFO doesn't want a vendor benchmark. They want your numbers. Start with the cost your turnover is already creating, then size a recognition budget against it.
Build your number
Every field starts on a placeholder. Overwrite them with your own data — that's the whole point.
SHRM-cited research puts strong recognition programs near a 31% reduction ceiling — treat that as an upper bound, not your default.
Annual voluntary departures
225
Cost per departure
$32,500
Current annual turnover cost
$7,312,500
Projected annual turnover cost avoided — the size of your business case
$1,462,500
20% of $7,312,500 in current turnover cost
Set your budget
Proposed total 2027 recognition budget
$292,500
$195 per employee · 0.30% of payroll
You're at $195 per employee.
Shaded band is $100–350/employee — commonly published vendor benchmark range, for a sanity check only, never as your citation. The number above it is the one to bring to finance.
Allocate it
Implied recognition moments per employee this year
4.3
From everyday/peer and manager-led spot budgets
All figures are modeled from the inputs you provide and are intended to support internal planning conversations, not to serve as a guarantee of results.
|Total 2027 budget
$292,500
$195/employee · 0.30% of payroll · avoided $1,462,500