People Retention Metrics Outcome

Regrettable Turnover

Regrettable Turnover: Voluntary departures of high performers, as a share of the high performers employed at the start of the period.

Formula

Regrettable Turnover = High performer departures / Total high performers × 100

Computable definition

The canonical formula in the GASP formula grammar. The MCP server compiles it to SQL over the datasets listed below.

count_distinct(field.employee_id where field.termination_type = 'voluntary' and field.is_high_performer = true and in_period(field.termination_date)) / count_distinct(field.employee_id where field.is_high_performer = true and field.employee_status = 'active') at period_start

Unit: percent (the formula yields an unscaled ratio)

Notes: Denominator is high performers at period start.

Data requirements

Grain: Monthly aggregate · Frequency: Monthly · Aggregation: aggregate (month) · Staged: no · Main source: HRIS.

Field	Dataset	Type
`employee_id`	employee	string
`employee_status`	employee	string
`is_high_performer`	employee	boolean
`snapshot_date`	employee	date
`termination_date`	employee	date
`termination_type`	employee	string

Example SQL (Postgres)

SELECT (CAST((SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT employee_id) FROM employee WHERE snapshot_date = :period_end AND ((termination_type = 'voluntary' AND is_high_performer = TRUE) AND (termination_date >= :period_start AND termination_date <= :period_end))) AS DOUBLE PRECISION) / NULLIF((SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT employee_id) FROM employee WHERE snapshot_date = :period_start AND (is_high_performer = TRUE AND employee_status = 'active')), 0)) AS regrettable_turnover

From an agent: with the GASP MCP server, call lookup_metric({ "name": "Regrettable Turnover" }) or generate_query({ "metric": "Regrettable Turnover", "adapter": "<your adapter JSON>" }).

What It Tells You

Whether you are losing your best people.

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