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Caregiving Impact Calculator

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Provide the number of your employees by age and the average salary

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Based upon your employee population, the estimated annual cost of caregiving in your organization is:

50 & Older:

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Low Scenario:

$0 - $0

40-49:

(%)

Moderate Scenario:

$0 - $0

30-39:

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High Scenario:

$0 - $0

20-29:

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Under 20:

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Total:

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Avg. Annual
Salary ($)

Key Statistics and References

  • Caregiver Employees (CEs) represent 21.8% of the employed US population

  • 61% of CEs are women

  • Caregivers missed an average of 6.6 days annually due to caregiving

  • 55% of eligible CEs utilized paid family leave

  • Presenteeism Impact: 11% / $5,281 annually

  • Absenteeism Impact: 2.2% / $1,123 annually

  • 8% of employees quit to take care of loved ones

  • Average out-of-pocket caregiving expenses are just over $7,200 annually (26% of an annual income)

  • Employee absences and turnover tied to elder care already cost American employers as much as $33 billion a year 

  • Churn costs, all in all, at the lowest end of the spectrum are 90% of an annual salary

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  1. AARP & National Alliance for Caregiving. Caregiving in the United States 2020. Washington, DC: AARP. May 2020.

  2. Lerner, D., Lavelle, T. A., Adler, D., Chow, W., Chang, H., Godar, S. C., & Rogers, W. H. (2020). A Population-Based Survey of the Workplace Costs for Caregivers of Persons With Treatment-Resistant Depression Compared With Other Health Conditions. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

  3. Fuller, J. B., & Raman, M. (2019). The Caring Company. Harvard Business School.

  4. The New York Times (2022). The Quiet Cost of Family Caregiving

  5. AARP (2021) Caregiving Out-of-Pocket Costs Study

  6. The MetLife Study of Caregiving Costs to Working Caregivers (2011)

  7. The Costs of Replacing an Employee – SHRM (2017)

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