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Employee cost to hire calculator.
Estimate the true employer cost of taking on a new member of staff, including NI, pension and overheads.
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Employee cost to hire calculator.
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First-year total cost
£53,263
- Recurring annual
- £45,513
- Employer NI
- £4,500
- Employer pension
- £863
- Recruitment fee
- £5,250
FAQs
Common questions.
Practical answers for the questions people ask about this tool.
What is usually missed when budgeting for a hire?
Employer National Insurance and pension are the obvious ones, but the costs people forget are onboarding time, software seats, the productivity dip in the first months, and the time senior staff spend interviewing and supervising. Those are real costs even though none of them appears on an invoice.
How should I use this against an agency fee?
Compare total first-year cost, not the fee in isolation. A fee looks large next to nothing and small next to a vacancy running for months or a hire that does not work out. The hiring cost and recruitment fee calculators are designed to be read together.
Next steps
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