Resource Industry Turnover Analysis

RITA was established in 2005 to benchmark employee turnover in the resources industry. We now have resources companies, both large and small, submitting turnover data from more than 50 operations around Australia and the sample has grown to in excess of 26,000 employees.

We use that data to compare turnover amongst the participating companies and provide graphs which benchmark their performance against the other companies. We further breakdown the data to benchmark against residential, fly in fly out (FIFO) and drive in drive out (DIDO) operations as well as blue collar versus white collar employees and direct employees and contractor employees.

RITA also shows trends in company turnover against industry averages. To make the comparisons meaningful the current sample is restricted to mining and processing operations around Australia. We have a limited sample from the coal sector and are currently assessing whether there is sufficient interest to justify a stand alone coal report.

The report is produced twice yearly and is available via subscription only.

The graph below shows an example of the benchmarking data produced in a previous report. This is actual data showing overall (employee and contractor) turnover for all participants.

Turnover rates