Turn a salary into the fully loaded cost of an employee: employer taxes, pension, benefits, equipment and overhead. The result updates as you type so you can compare scenarios quickly.
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Use the calculator to compare scenarios rather than as a guaranteed forecast.
Turn a salary into the fully loaded cost of a hire, including employer taxes, pension, benefits, equipment and recruiting, by country.
Salary plus bonus is taxed at the employer rate for the country (UK National Insurance, US FICA, Canadian CPP and EI, Australian superannuation and payroll tax), then pension, benefits, equipment and a third of recruiting cost are added.
A $70,000 US salary with a 5% bonus, 4% match, $6,000 of benefits, $4,500 of kit and $9,000 to recruit costs about $97,000 a year, a 39% load.
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Who uses it, and when
Founders building a runway model, hiring managers and finance teams budgeting headcount.
Mistakes worth avoiding
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Turn a salary into the fully loaded cost of an employee: employer taxes, pension, benefits, equipment and overhead.
Salary plus bonus is taxed at the employer rate for the country (UK National Insurance, US FICA, Canadian CPP and EI, Australian superannuation and payroll tax), then pension, benefits, equipment and a third of recruiting cost are added.
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Budgeting salary alone and running out of runway early. Forgetting equipment refresh and software seats. Treating recruiting fees as a one-off when turnover repeats them.
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