Recruitment & Retention
Numbers Don't Lie: How a Recruiting Calculator Wins You More Budget
Your department's vacancies aren't saving the city money — they're costing it. San Jose burned through $71.5 million in police overtime last year. Rochester spent $16 million — more than its entire library budget. Chicago topped $270 million. If your council still thinks an open position is a line item the city is "saving on," they're reading the spreadsheet wrong. A recruiting calculator puts the real number in front of them, in the language they actually speak. Here's how to use one to win your next budget meeting — and why the chiefs who bring data walk out with approvals while the ones who bring gut feelings walk out with promises to "revisit it next quarter."
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