OK, I literally Googled "cost for an average US business is to simply replace an employee": Thirty case studies taken from the 11 most-relevant research papers

OK, I literally Googled "cost for an average US business is to simply replace an employee": Thirty case studies taken from the 11 most-relevant research papers on the costs of employee turnover demonstrate that it costs businesses about one-fifth of a worker’s salary to replace that worker. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2012/11/16/44464/there-are-significant-business-costs-to-replacing-employees/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2012... So... did you mean $100,000?