Fred – your numbers are way off; here’s why:
You take the total employees that have quit or were terminated (67,000) and divide by the number of years that the TSA has existed (6) to get the average number of employees that have vacated their positions each year (11,167). I’m with you so far; but then you take this number of employees that leave ANNUALLY and divide by the TOTAL employees for ALL SIX YEARS. That is where you get the very low average of 10.2%
To get the average annual percentage you must take the average people that leave annually (11,167) and divide by the average number of employees that are employed at any given time (43,000) which yields an annual turn-over rate of 26%.
If you are just itching to put those 110,000 employees into some equation, why not take 67,000 and divide by 110,000 to get 60.9% – or the percentage of employees that left their jobs at TSA over a six year period.
