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What does it actually cost to hire someone abroad?
Salary is the number you negotiate. Statutory contributions, mandatory extra months, and contribution caps are the numbers that decide what you really pay — and they are buried in legislation written in another language.
EasyChoosing turns them into a calculator. Every rate is cited, every formula is published, and every page says when the figures were last checked.
Total annual employer cost
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Show the formula
annualGross = monthlySalary × instalmentsPerYear
for each statutory contribution:
base = min(annualGross, statutory cap)
amount = base × rate
totalEmployerCost = annualGross + Σ amountsRates and caps come from the sources cited below. Nothing else is added.
Full breakdown by country
Three things that break a hiring budget
Extra salary months that are genuinely extra
Portugal pays fourteen months, and both extra payments are real additional pay that attracts social security. Spain also quotes fourteen payments, but there it usually splits the same annual salary into more instalments. Treating those two the same way misstates a budget by about 17% — in opposite directions.
Contribution caps
Poland stops charging pension and disability once the annual base passes PLN 282,600. Spain caps its whole stack at a monthly base. Above those thresholds your marginal cost per extra unit of salary falls sharply, so a senior hire can cost proportionally less than a junior one.
Rates that are ranges, not numbers
Accident insurance is priced by sector and risk. Anyone quoting you a single national figure has picked one silently. We show the range and say which end we modelled.
Why trust a calculator over a vendor's guide?
Because you can check a calculator. We publish the formula, cite every rate, and date every page. Where a question can't be answered from public data and arithmetic, we say so instead of inventing a confident answer — the methodology page spells out exactly where these tools break down.
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