New Hire Retention Rate (90-day)
Percentage of new hires still employed at 90 days, indicating onboarding and role-fit effectiveness
What is New Hire Retention Rate (90-day)?
New hire retention rate at 90 days is the percentage of a cohort of new hires who are still employed after three months. It is an early check on whether the hiring and onboarding process is working.
People who leave in the first few months usually do so because the job or the organisation was not what they expected.
How this KPI is measured
- Function
- Human Resources
- Sub-function
- Talent Retention
- Industry
- All Industries
- Type
- Lagging
- Impact
- People
- Unit
- %
- Measurement frequency
- Monthly / Quarterly
- Formula
- (New hires still employed at 90 days / Total new hires in cohort) × 100
How to calculate it
Divide new hires still employed at 90 days by total new hires in the cohort, and multiply by 100.
For example, if 100 people started and 94 were still employed after 90 days, the rate is 94%.
Follow each start-date cohort, and look at early leavers by source, role and manager.
Where it is used
Spotting early problems
Catch onboarding failures.
Improving job previews
Set realistic expectations.
Supporting managers
Help with early relationships.
How to improve it
Tips and common mistakes
- Early departures often signal a mismatch of expectations.
- Look at manager patterns.
- Compare against 12-month retention.
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