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What does it actually cost to hire someone abroad?
Salary is the number you negotiate. What you actually pay includes statutory contributions, mandatory extra months of pay, and contribution caps, most of which sit in legislation written in another language.
This site puts those figures into a calculator. Each rate links to the source it came from, the formula is printed on the page, and so is the date it was 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
Or see all of them side by side, ranked by what you actually pay per twelve months of quoted salary.
Get told when these numbers change
Statutory rates move at the start of a tax year, and vendors are slow to update. We re-check every country on this site and mail you when a figure moves.
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. The formula is published, the rates are cited, and every page carries a date. Where a question can't be answered from public data and arithmetic, we say so. The methodology page sets out where these tools break down.
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