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True Employee Cost Calculator
Build an annual employee-cost budget including compensation, employer costs, benefits, insurance, training, equipment, and recurring expenses.
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Estimates use unrounded numbers. Displayed amounts round to cents.
What this means
This is a broader employee budget than Labor Burden: it includes the compensation itself plus training, equipment, and other employee-specific expenses. Monthly equivalent is an even allocation of the annual budget, not a prediction of monthly cash payments.
Worked example
Separate payroll-cost scenario: the default inputs use 0% payroll costs and total $58,000 annually. For $50,000 compensation, an illustrative entered 10% payroll cost, $4,000 benefits, $1,000 insurance, $1,000 training, and $2,000 equipment, additional cost is $13,000 and annual cost is $63,000. That is $5,250/month or $31.50 per 2,000 paid hours. At 1,500 productive hours, the cost is $42/hour.
How the math works
Additional cost = annual compensation × employer payroll percentage / 100 + benefits + insurance + training + equipment + other expenses. Total annual cost = compensation + additional cost. Monthly equivalent = annual cost ÷ 12. Loaded hourly cost = annual cost ÷ paid or productive hours.
About this estimate
The single compensation input is an annual amount. Hourly workers must be annualized by the visitor; paid hours only allocate cost. All budgets cover one employee and the same year. No statutory rate, depreciation method, recruitment cost, or general overhead is automatically included. Defaults are editable examples, not recommendations.
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Formula v1.0.0 · Reviewed · Tool ID: true-employee-cost