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Free Diagnostic Tool
What Is Your Training Content
Actually Costing You?
Most organisations don't see the cost of ineffective content — they only see the training budget. This calculator makes the hidden waste visible, so you can make the case for change.
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Organisation Inputs
Your current L&D context
Annual L&D Budget
$500,000
$50K
$5M
Total Learner Population
1,000
100
50,000
Avg. Employee Hourly Cost
$45
$10
$200
Include salary + benefits. Use blended average across your learner population.
Content Health Indicators
How is your current content performing?
Current Avg. Completion Rate
42%
5%
95%
Industry average for off-the-shelf content is 20–45%.
Avg. Training Hours Per Learner / Year
18 hrs
2 hrs
80 hrs
% of Budget Spent on Content Development
35%
5%
80%
Typical enterprise allocation is 25–40% of L&D budget on content.
Estimated annual waste
$0
in content spend that isn't driving performance
Recoverable saving
with 85%+ completion content
$0
Cost breakdown
Content budget lost to non-completion
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Employee time cost of incomplete training
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Total content spend at current completion rate
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Projected content spend at 85% completion
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Your current completion rate
42%
Edstellar benchmark completion rate
85%
Methodology: Waste is calculated as content spend × (1 − completion rate) + employee time cost of incomplete modules. Recoverable saving assumes 85% completion rate on purpose-built content. Figures are indicative estimates for planning purposes.
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