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The figure I've heard is 1.25-1.5x base salary.



That sounds right for direct staffing costs (health insurance isn't cheap!), but low if you mean counting in all the other stuff. I suppose it depends on the business--someone like Dropbox spends a lot more on servers than say Groupon.


Right, that's for the incremental cost of each employee: taxes, benefits, equipment (for the individuals, not servers), office space. It's useful for calculating how much a new employee will cost you.


I've always used a rule-of-thumb of a 100% overhead rate for employees - it's a spectacularly easy number to work with mentally, and its right to well within acceptable error bounds an awful lot of the time.

If I'm paying you $90k, I'll expect to incur an additional $90k in costs resulting from employing you.


Server costs will continue to decrease, whereas salespeople will continue to demand more (we aren't going to lower the minimum-wage).




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