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Offer acceptance rate calculator
Offers made and offers accepted in, and out comes the acceptance rate, the number declined and the decline rate. Pure arithmetic on your own offer counts.
The link carries your figures in the address itself. Nothing is stored on our side.
The working
| Measure | Value | How it is worked out |
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How the answer is worked out
Every step, in the open, so you can rebuild it in a few spreadsheet cells and disagree with it if you want to. A calculator you cannot check is an ad.
The acceptance rate
The acceptance rate is the offers accepted divided by the offers extended, as a percentage. 34 accepted out of 40 extended is 85 percent. It is the share of your offers that turned into a yes, over whatever window you chose, and it is the headline recruiters usually mean by offer acceptance.
Declines and the decline rate
The number declined is the offers extended minus the offers accepted, and the decline rate is that number over the offers extended. They are the same result read from the other side, and the decline rate is often the more useful one to watch, because a rising decline rate is an early signal about pay, process or competing offers.
Choosing the window
The rate is only as clean as the set of offers you count. Use offers extended in a defined period and the outcomes of those same offers, rather than mixing offers from one period with acceptances from another. Whether a verbal offer counts, and when a non-response becomes a decline, are your rules, applied consistently.
What this tool does not know
What a good rate is. Acceptance rates vary by role, by seniority, by market and by how competitive your offers are, so this tool holds no benchmark and no target for anyone. A made-up "healthy" figure would only mislead. Your own rate, tracked over time and across roles, tells you far more than any external number.
It measures the outcome, not the cause: it will not tell you why an offer was declined. To read what those hires cost, use the cost per hire calculator, and to read attrition once they join, the turnover rate calculator. For the wider picture, see the guide to running an interview process.
Questions with complete answers
How is the offer acceptance rate worked out?
It is the offers accepted divided by the offers extended, as a percentage. The tool also shows the number declined, which is extended minus accepted, and the decline rate. Every line is in the working so you can check the arithmetic.
What counts as an offer extended?
That is your rule to set, and keeping it consistent is what makes the rate mean something. Most teams count formal written offers; some include verbal offers once they are made in earnest. Decide where the line is, apply it the same way each period, and be careful to match the accepted offers to the same set you counted as extended.
What is a good acceptance rate?
There is no honest single answer, so this tool will not assert one. It depends on the role, the seniority, how hot the market is and how competitive your offers are. A senior engineering offer and an early-career one sit in different ranges. Tracking your own rate over time and by role is more useful than any benchmark a page could invent.
Why also show the decline rate?
Because the decline rate is often the number worth watching. It is simply the mirror of the acceptance rate, but a decline rate that is creeping up is an early signal, about pay, about the process taking too long, or about losing to competing offers, and seeing it stated directly makes that easier to act on than reading it off the acceptance figure.
Is anything I type saved or sent anywhere?
No. It computes in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. There is no email wall, no account and no storage. The link button carries your figures in the address itself if you want to send them to someone.
A rate is a result. The offers behind it are a record worth keeping.