Your skills gap, in pounds.
Most teams describe their skills gap in adjectives. Senior leaders pay attention to numbers. This calculator does the translation in 30 seconds.
We multiply the size of your team by the gap between current and target capability (as a percentage), then multiply that effective FTE gap by your average fully-loaded annual salary. The result is a directional, evidence-based estimate of the annual operational cost of your team's skills gap. The template costs £199 once.
Don't know your capability percentage? Try the live mini matrix on the homepage to estimate it in 60 seconds (calculated on the 0–5 proficiency weighting: 1=25%, 2=50%, 3=75%, 4=100%, 5=100%).
Your numbers
How to interpret these numbers
The annual cost figure is a directional estimate, not an accounting line. Think of it the way a CFO would: if your team is running at 23% below the capability the role demands, you are effectively under-delivering against your own salary base by roughly that proportion, manifested as missed deadlines, quality issues, single-points-of-failure, key-person dependencies, and slower onboarding.
The £199 template payback figure assumes that even closing 1% of the gap recovers a proportional share of that cost over a year. In practice, most teams who start using a structured matrix close 5-15% of their gap inside the first quarter, simply by making investment decisions on evidence rather than instinct.
Three ways teams use this number
- To get £199 signed off in a procurement conversation that takes less than 5 minutes.
- To justify training budget by reframing it from "cost" to "investment that recovers a quantifiable gap".
- To prioritise which skills to invest in first, the gap with the largest cost multiplier wins.
Now do something with the number.
£199 once, the full Excel template, and a £1 PulseAI upgrade if you want to take it further. Most teams pay it back inside a fortnight.
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