Calculator

This calculator will help you estimate the cost of implementing HFA in your community! Start by plugging in how many families you intend to partner with each year, along with your staff salaries, and then get a total estimate! You will also be able to download a worksheet, giving you a 3-year budgeting tool, calculating the overall cost per family.

How to use this calculator
1. How many families will you partner with?
2. Enter salary information.
Role Total FTE Salary
Direct Service Staff - $
Supervisor - $
Manager - $
Support Staff - $
Total Salary $ 152,000.00

Your Inputs

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How many families will you partner with?
Role Total FTE Salary
Direct Service Staff - $
Supervisor - $
Manager - $
Support Staff - $
Total Salary $

Costs

Other personal expenses

These expenses are best estimated as a percentage of the overall salary expense

Total

 Total
Staff Benefits $ $
Administrative Overhead $ $
Operational Expenses $ $

Non-personnel costs

Per staff per year

 Total
Staff equipment (cell phone, computer, cell phone service) $ $
Professional Development $ $
HFA LIVE Virtual Conference $ $

Materials for Families

Per family per year

 Total
Copies of Forms/Tools $ $
Parenting Materials $ $
Family Support Group Meetings $ $

Training & HFA Services (Required for Model Fidelity)

Per staff per year

 Total
Training (Direct Service Staff) $ $
Training (Supervisors) $ $
Training (Program Managers) $ $
HFA Annual Affiliation Fee $ $
Affiliation Application $ $
Fidelity Assessment and Accreditation Fees $ $

Other Expenses

 Total
Advisory Board $ $
Data System $ $

Estimated Annual Budget

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Includes three years of data and cost per family information

Staffing and Salary Resources

Choosing the people who do this work

In HFA, we ask that you focus on hiring staff who possess characteristics necessary to build trusting, nurturing relationships, and work effectively with families with different cultural values and beliefs than their own. Staff with lived expertise and knowledge about the community they serve are great assets to your organization.

Focusing on these characteristics also increases opportunities for diverse representation and equitable access to positions for historically and currently underrepresented individuals and groups. HFA direct service staff are not required to have greater educational attainment than a high school diploma or equivalent.

Compensating your staff

Having an equitable compensation strategy is important not just for staff well-being but also for overall workforce stabilization. Compensation impacts staff tenure (and consequently HFA family tenure), and frequent turnover can be both costly and lead to inefficiencies.

Based on survey data from a relatively small number of HFA sites across the country, the median HFA salary for a direct service staff person in 2023 was $41,000.

We would also ask you to consider factors such as: What is a living wage in your area? Explore for yourself using the Living Wage Calculator by MIT.

Also, consider the families you will be partnering with in your community. How will your staff be reflective of your community – and how will they be compensated for the added expertise of lived experience or being bilingual?