Workforce Wellbeing ROI Calculator | Liminal Spaces
Liminal Spaces Workforce Wellbeing ROI Calculator — Mode A: Industry Estimate
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Tell us about your workforce

This calculator uses industry benchmark data from NSC, NORC, and SAMHSA to estimate the financial impact of untreated mental distress in your organization. No data you enter here is stored anywhere.

Distress prevalence rates vary by sector. Sourced from 2015-2018 NSDUH (SAMHSA).
Full- and part-time combined.
Used to estimate turnover replacement cost at 21% of annual salary.
Benefits as a percentage of base salary. Default 30% if unknown.
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Which program are you exploring?

Select the Liminal Spaces service you are considering and the market benchmark tier you want to compare against. We will use these to calculate your estimated ROI and price savings.

Workplace Mental Health Foundations
90-minute flagship workshop
Builds workforce-wide mental health awareness, reduces stigma, and creates shared language for recognizing and responding to distress. Designed for all employees.
Audience: All employees
Manager Confidence in Difficult Conversations
90-minute flagship workshop
Builds practical skills for supervisors and managers to recognize distress, initiate supportive conversations, and make appropriate referrals. Manager behavior is the primary driver of voluntary turnover.
Audience: Supervisors and managers
Mental Health and Human Performance in Safety-Sensitive Work
90-minute flagship workshop
Directly connects mental state to physical performance and safety outcomes. Built for environments where mental distress translates to elevated incident risk, impaired focus, and reaction time degradation.
Audience: All employees in safety-critical roles
Mental Health Moments for Teams
Quarterly series — 4 live sessions per year
Four touchpoints across the year creating sustained engagement, normalizing mental health conversation, and building cumulative culture change. The only Liminal Spaces service that matches the recurring-engagement model most often associated with strong long-term ROI in the research literature.
Audience: All employees
Workforce Wellbeing and Culture Assessment
Standard scope — survey, findings, and recommendations
A diagnostic investment. Rather than guessing which program your workforce needs, this assessment identifies where your highest-cost exposures actually are, so every dollar you spend on programs afterward hits the right target.
Audience: Leadership and organizational stakeholders
Mid-range: $35/employee/month ($420/employee/year). Typically includes structured engagement, incentive programs, group coaching, analytics, and reporting. The most common employer investment tier for active wellness programs. (Source: Avidon Health; HolistiCare, 2025)
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Estimate for planning purposes only. Results are based on industry benchmark data and your selected inputs. Distress prevalence rates are sourced from the 2015–2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (SAMHSA). Cost figures are sourced from NSC and NORC at the University of Chicago (2021). ROI projections use scenario-based improvement assumptions and should not be interpreted as guaranteed financial outcomes. Program results depend on participation, leadership support, and organizational context.

A note on program effectiveness and what the research actually shows

A 2019 randomized clinical trial published in JAMA found improvements in self-reported health behaviors but no significant differences in clinical outcomes, healthcare spending, absenteeism, or job performance after 18 months. This finding matters, and any credible wellness program should engage with it directly rather than ignore it.

The conditions most associated with weak outcomes in that research were generic content not matched to the specific workforce, digital self-directed delivery with chronically low voluntary participation, limited or absent leadership visibility, and single-point program models with no sustained engagement over time.

Liminal Spaces is specifically structured to address each of those conditions:

  • Built for this workforce. Every service is designed for skilled trades, manufacturing, and industrial environments, not adapted from general office wellness content. The language, examples, scenarios, and framing reflect the cultures and risk profiles of the people in the room.
  • Live delivery, not digital self-service. All training is delivered in person or in real-time virtual format. Participants do not watch a video or complete a module. They work through content together with a live facilitator, which is one of the strongest predictors of sustained behavior change in the adult learning literature.
  • Practice, role play, and guided discussion built in. Participants leave having done the thing, not having heard about it. Skill practice and scenario-based learning are built into every session because information alone does not change behavior. Doing does.
  • Service dogs Abel and Basil are available for in-person and engagement experiences. Research in healthcare and high-stress environments consistently associates certified therapy animal presence with reduced cortisol response, increased psychological safety, and meaningfully higher engagement. For workforces that are typically resistant to wellness programming, this changes the dynamic before the session starts. It is not a novelty. It is a clinically grounded engagement strategy.
  • The quarterly series model. The Mental Health Moments for Teams series creates four sustained touchpoints across the year, directly addressing the time-horizon and single-exposure limitations the JAMA trial identified.
  • Supervisor and manager skill-building as a structural component. Manager behavior is one of the strongest predictors of both voluntary turnover and early intervention. Liminal Spaces builds this in as a core service, not an optional add-on.

Strong ROI from workforce wellbeing investment is achievable and well documented. The research is clear that it depends on program design, workforce fit, participation quality, and delivery approach. These are not features Liminal Spaces added to a generic program. They are the reason it was built the way it was.

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Ready to talk through what this looks like for your workforce?

Jillian Matyjevich, RN, NBC-HWC works with employers across skilled trades and manufacturing to build wellbeing programs that actually get used. Reach out to start the conversation.

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Sources: NSC and NORC at the University of Chicago, Mental Health Cost Calculator for Employers (2021). SAMHSA, National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2015–2018. Baicker K, Cutler D, Song Z. Health Affairs 2010;29(2):304–311. Song Z, Baicker K. JAMA 2019;321(15):1491–1501. Avidon Health, Employee Wellness Program Cost Benchmarks. HolistiCare, Corporate Wellness Programs: Real ROI Data for 2025. SoHookd, Corporate Wellness Programs Cost Breakdown. Boushey H, Glynn S. Center for American Progress, 2012 (21% replacement cost figure). Liminal Spaces pricing reflects 2025 published rates.