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Calculate the Cost of Churn

Let's crunch the numbers on what member churn is costing your club.

New members joining each year
Average annual membership fee$
Of those, how many don't renew after year one
Other revenue per member each year (optional)$

You bring in 100 members a year and 35 don't renew — a 35% first-year churn rate. That happens again with every new intake, and lapsed members don't come back. So each year's losses stack on top of the last.

ByMembers lostCost that yearCost to dateYear 235$14,000$14,000Year 370$28,000$42,000Year 4105$42,000$84,000Year 5140$56,000$140,000
If a review helped you keep this many more each year

Keeping 10 more members a year is worth $40,000 over 5 years.

A Member Experience Review is $15,495 — it pays for itself by year 4.

Indicative only. Assumes a steady annual intake, that members who lapse are not won back, that retained members would have kept paying the same annual amount, and that any improvement in retention holds for every following intake.

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