Stan Mucinics Practice Test

Turnover rate shows how many employees left relative to how many were on the payroll, during a period. The standard way to measure it is to take the number of separations (employees who left) and divide by the average number of employees on the payroll during that period, then multiply by 100 to express it as a percent. This approach accounts for staffing that changes month to month, rather than just looking at a single snapshot. With the data given for the 100-bed facility, those two numbers combine to a ratio of about 0.101, which is 10.1% when expressed as a percentage. That’s why this option matches the conventional turnover calculation using the period’s separations and average staffing. If you used the total beds as a denominator, or used the end-of-period headcount or the number of hires instead of separations, you’d get a different figure, not the turnover rate defined above.