• It costs $7,000 to replace a salaried employee, $10,000 to replace a mid-level employee, and $40,000 to replace a senior executive.
  • Employers lose 72% of all negligent hiring suits.
  • Two thirds of negligent hiring cases brought to court have received jury awards with an average award of $600,000. According to the Workplace Violence Research Institute, the average award in these suits is $3 million.
  • Over 85% of all resumes contain errors, omissions, and false statements.
  • 34% of all application forms contain outright lies about experience, education and ability to perform essential functions on the job.
  • 9% of job applicants falsely claimed they had a college degree, listed false employers or identified jobs that didn’t exist.
  • 11% of job applicants misrepresented why they left a former employer.
  • 30% of business failures are caused by employee theft.
  • 14.7% of all applicants admit to theft of merchandise from an employer.
  • 4.4% of all applicants admit to theft of cash from an employer.
  • Average employee embezzlement is over $125,000.
  • 95% of all companies are victims of theft, and yet only 10% ever discover it.
  • Over 40% of individuals with criminal records committed an offense in a state other than where they were applying to volunteer, meaning that a state-only search would not have found relevant criminal records.
  • 90% of sexual assaults are committed against someone the perpetrator knows.
  • There are 400,000 new sexual assault victims every year.
  • There are over 550,000 registered sex offenders.
  • Over 100,000 sex offenders have failed to register in the United States.
  • From 20-30% of girls and 5-15% of boys will be sexually abused by the age of 18.
  • The majority of child sexual abuse victims will be abused by family members or trusted friends.

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