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Workforce Calculator

How is your organization doing hiring individuals from the nearly 40 different labor pools?

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The workforce calculator will show you where you are exceeding expectations and where you may be missing opportunities. The calculator takes the U.S. average for the different workforce elements (types of individuals) and estimates how many of the various types of employees you would have in your organization if you looked like the U.S. average. (In the future, this will be updated to be specific to your industry.)
 

Don’t read too much into the numbers you get. There are wide variations from county to county in some of the elements - large companies tend to have significantly more HR resources than small companies, different industries tend to target different groups, levels of success vary across different industry sectors, and there can always be extenuating circumstances in a specific company or community. This calculator is only provided to give you a rough estimate and to help you think about new possibilities.

The components of the Workforce Vector are termed the Workforce Elements. The nearly 40 elements fall into five broad business and Human Resource categories:

  1. Increasing the output of your current employees;

  2. Retaining your current employees;

  3. Hiring individuals who are not employed or are unemployed;

  4. Attracting individuals employed by others; and

  5. Building your future workforce.

The workforce calculator currently provides information for workforce elements related to the highlighted section of the table below. It will include more elements in the future. Workforce Element definitions can be found on this page.​

Highlights of the Workforce Elements that are included in the Workforce Calculator.

Note that you cannot add all of the numbers in the table above to get a total snapshot for your organization. Some of the elements cross over. You might employ Females 20-54 years old and Individuals with a Disability. Some of the Individuals with a Disability might also be a Female 20-54 years old. That said, some of the elements can sum to your company size. Specifically, those related to age and those that are looked at in isolation. For instance, Veterans and Non-Veterans.

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