Looking to get an estimate of the true cost of an employee

PasturesNew

I am looking for:

Vader123 wrote: »

1. private free gym membership,
2. Christmas bonus fixed at £1500 per year
3. Contribution based pension
4. Sickness paid from day 1 until self cert
5. 29 days annual leave (pro rata)
6. Flexible working (where role permits)

And also:
- free on-site parking
- access possible by walking, cycling, train in case of bad weather or the car being off the road
- in an area where housing is affordable
- close to the coast
- in one geographic area of 200 mile diameter.

I could be looking for some time ... or, I'll take the first cr4ppy offer anybody gives me, for anything, anywhere... like usual.

RobertoMoir

Fusion916 wrote: »

So is the only thing I'm missing from my calculations is social security and medicare tax?

Pension? 401K or whatever it's called over there?

Don't forget the intangible stuff - office space (won't change if you already rent/own a large enough place I know but its still technically a cost), energy used to run their part of the office, consumables, capital spend (if you need to buy them a computer, desk, etc). I'd really count on double the salary as being about right.

As for getting better information, don't you have people that help small businesses over there - I think a friend from the states mentioned something called the "better business bureau" to me? Or if you're in a profession then perhaps your professional association would have data from other members on the cost of running an office?

Not that we don't want to help, it's just that I can see a business in America missing something real important in its costings if the data is from a bunch of Brits pulling numbers out of thin air ;-)