Corporate wellness ROI calculator
What is stress costing your team?
Build the business case in about a minute. The model counts only employees who attend, uses the conservative end of published research, and leaves healthcare savings out.
Share of employees who attend at least one session.
Estimated annual value
$90,735
Range $33,555 (conservative) to $178,100 (optimistic)
- Hard-dollar ROI
- 203%
- Employees reached
- 100
- Cost / person
- $114
- Hard-dollar payback
- 4 mo
Hard-dollar value
- Fewer absence days$10,110
- Lower voluntary turnover$24,375
- Starting investment−$11,400
Softer value
- Recovered focus (presenteeism)$56,250
- Healthcare savingsNot counted
How this is calculated
Absence: attendees × $1,685 annual absenteeism cost per employee × 3% / 6% / 10% recovered.
Turnover: departures among attendees × 2% / 5% / 10% fewer leaving × a replacement cost of 50% of salary (the floor of the 50–200% range).
Presenteeism: attendees × salary × 0.25% / 0.75% / 1.5% of output recovered. It’s reported separately because it’s harder to measure.
ROI = (expected hard-dollar value − starting investment) ÷ starting investment. Plan against the conservative number and treat the rest as upside.
What the research says
12 billion
working days are lost every year to depression and anxiety, costing an estimated US$1 trillion in lost productivity.
World Health Organization (opens in a new tab)$2.73
drop in absenteeism costs for every $1 spent on workplace wellness programs, alongside $3.27 in lower medical costs.
Harvard, Baicker, Cutler & Song, Health Affairs (2010) (opens in a new tab)£4.70
average return for every £1 employers invest in workplace mental-health and wellbeing support. Presenteeism is the largest single cost.
Deloitte UK, Mental health and employers (2024) (opens in a new tab)$0.48
returned per $1 by lifestyle-only wellness in a seven-year employer study, versus $3.78 for disease management. That’s why this model leaves healthcare savings out.
RAND Corporation evaluation, Health Affairs (2014) (opens in a new tab)9%
of the global workforce has access to any workplace wellness program. In North America, it’s about half of employees.
Global Wellness Institute, The Future of Wellness at Work (opens in a new tab)
A directional planning model, not a guarantee. Results depend on your people, participation and program design. RESET provides wellness education and experiential programming, not clinical care.
For HR, People & leadership teams · 30 minutes
Turn the estimate into a plan.
Bring your numbers. We’ll help you pick the format your people will actually show up for.
You’ll leave with a recommended program, a starting quote and talking points for your leadership team.
No pressure, no hard sell. Opens our Zoom scheduling page in a new tab.