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Fill rate calculator

Enter the number of vacancies filled and the number of vacancies opened over the same period. The calculator works out the fill rate.

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Fill rate

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This calculation is for informational purposes only and does not replace advice from a qualified professional. Formulas and rates may not fit your exact situation — double-check the figures before making decisions.

How it is calculated

Fill rate = vacancies filled ÷ vacancies opened over the same period × 100%. It answers "what share of hiring demand actually got met", not "how fast" — for speed, look at Time to Hire instead.

Both numbers need to come from the same period, or the result gets skewed: a vacancy opened near the end of a period and filled early in the next one counts as "opened" but not as "filled" for the current period, understating fill rate without a real hiring problem behind it.

A low fill rate is a cue to check one of two things: either the hiring plan was unrealistic given the timeline and recruiting resources, or there's a bottleneck in the pipeline — too few candidates, slow approvals, an uncompetitive offer. Breaking it down by department and role type usually pinpoints the problem faster than one aggregate number.

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