Prepared by Business Executive Group · October 29, 2026
How to use this resource
Use contribution, not gross revenue
Estimate revenue the practice can no longer earn, less the costs it avoids by not delivering that work. Have the person responsible for the practice's finances check the assumptions.
Avoid counting coverage twice
If temporary coverage restores some capacity, reduce the lost-contribution estimate accordingly. Enter only additional coverage expense that has not already been included in your contribution calculation.
Compare plausible durations
Try a shorter and longer vacancy scenario using the same weekly assumptions. A difference between scenarios shows sensitivity to your inputs; it does not demonstrate that a particular recruiter will deliver that difference.
Keep the assumptions with the result
Record the input source and review date. Compare any recruiting proposal separately, including amounts payable without a hire. Update the calculation when schedules or coverage change.
A worked example
Illustrative arithmetic: $2,000 weekly lost contribution plus $500 additional weekly coverage cost, over four weeks, plus $300 one-time hiring costs equals $10,300. These are fictional inputs, not veterinary market averages.
Apply the decision to the actual San Jose vacancy
Santa Clara County has 15 incorporated cities, and San Jose is only one of them. Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Los Gatos and the others are cities in their own right, so keep each opening tied to its municipality. Fremont and Newark are in Alameda County, and East Palo Alto and Menlo Park are in San Mateo County, so they are outside this site’s coverage. Identify any rotation between San Jose, the northern cities, the West Valley or South County, and let candidates judge their own travel against actual shift times.
Describe the clinical service, support team, work address and schedule together. For a specialist, separate established facilities from planned investment; for a medical director, explain the clinical and management split and who hires associates. A role that moves between San Jose and another city needs an explicit site list and schedule. This site describes employer hiring coverage without claiming a San Jose recruiting office.
Give every provider the same hospital address, clinical scope, work schedule, compensation structure and decision dates. Compare the plan for that brief. A result appearing for a city search does not prove a provider has a local office or available candidates there.
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Calculate your scenario
Work in this browser, then download your notes. Entries are not sent to BEGHR and are cleared when you reload or leave. Keep candidate names and private records in your approved hiring system.
(Weekly contribution lost + additional weekly coverage cost) × weeks + one-time hiring costs.
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