Employer Cost & Burden Calculator
Calculate the true annual cost of an international hire — gross salary plus every statutory employer contribution, with a full breakdown by country.
| Gross salary | |
| Employer social security / NI | |
| Employer pension | |
| Employer healthcare | |
| Total employer cost |
Component rates are the main statutory employer contributions; the total uses the benchmarked all-in burden, which can include other levies (payroll tax, apprenticeship levy), so the lines need not sum exactly to the total.
| Country | Social security | Pension | Healthcare | Total burden |
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Burden figures come from government social-insurance schedules, statutory employer-contribution rates, and verified payroll-compliance data across 40 countries. The total-burden percentage is the benchmarked all-in employer rate; the social-security, pension, and healthcare lines are the principal components and may not sum to it because some markets add payroll tax, apprenticeship levies, or accident insurance on top. This is a planning estimate of statutory cost only — it excludes recruitment, equipment, discretionary benefits, equity, and the EOR service fee, and does not constitute tax or payroll advice.
Employer social contributions range from near zero in some Gulf states to over 40% of gross in France — so the same salary can cost wildly different amounts to employ. Mandatory 13th- and 14th-month bonuses, statutory insurance levies, and payroll-tax structures add further variation. Budget headcount on the fully-loaded employer cost, not the gross salary, and re-check it when comparing two candidate markets.
Gross salary is the smaller half of the decision. Statutory employer contributions can add anywhere from a rounding error to nearly half the salary again, and a mandatory 13th-month bonus quietly adds another ~8%. Budget on the fully-loaded number, compare markets on it, and only then layer in the EOR fee or entity overhead to get the true cost of the hire.