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Empty Seat Calculator
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Empty Seat Calculator

See what an open physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant role costs your clinic every day, every week, and across the whole search.

Total cost of the empty seat
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Your clinic's numbers

Pick a preset, then replace any value with your own. Results update as you type.

How the cost adds up

Calculated with the Empty Seat formula.

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per clinic day
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per week
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per month
D. Weekly visit revenue lost (A x B x C)$0
E. Weekly ancillary revenue lost$0
F. Weekly coverage cost$0
G. Total weekly cost (D + E + F)$0
I. Vacancy cost (G x H)$0
J. One-time search costs$0
K. Total per seat (I + J)$0
Where the money goes
Lost visits Lost ancillary Coverage Search costs

What a faster hire keeps in your clinic

Drag to choose how quickly the seat could be filled.

Fill the seat in 8 weeks instead of 17
Weeks the seat is still openWeeks you get back
1 week17 weeks
9
weeks of vacancy avoided
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kept for every week you save
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total kept in your clinic

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  • First qualified candidate within 5 to 10 business days
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Sources for benchmarks: AAPPR Benchmarking Report (2026), median time to fill 119 days for physicians and 65 days for advanced practice providers; The Physicians Foundation Survey of America's Physicians (2018), about 20 patients per day. Preset collection, ancillary, coverage, and search values are illustrations only. Replace them with your own clinic's data for an accurate result.