Employer Cost Calculator

Work out the full annual cost of an employee from base salary, employer payroll taxes, benefits and other costs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Salary plus employer taxes plus benefits plus everything else, shown as a multiple of salary.

Use your own, for a period you can actually measure. A calculator like this is only as good as the inputs, and the most common error is using a number that covers a different period or a different set of costs.

No. Everything is worked out in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere or saved.

We do not publish one, deliberately. Benchmarks for these measures vary enormously by sector, stage and how each company defines the inputs, so a number quoted without those definitions tends to mislead more than it helps.