Hiring cost calculator

What does an engineer actually cost you locally?

Salary is the part everyone quotes. Recruitment, statutory on-costs, overheads, equipment, the vacancy before they start and the ramp before they are productive are the rest of it. This works out the whole figure from published national data, then shows what the same capability costs delivered by Acveti.

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Fill in one configuration. Both figures below use the exact same inputs, so the comparison is honest.

01What you are hiring

The market you would recruit into.

Mapped to the official occupation code each country publishes pay data against.

Matched to a percentile of the published pay distribution for that role.

Affects the Acveti price. It does not change the local cost, which is published by role rather than by stack.

Prices this role at the median of its technologies.

02Engagement

Both figures scale with the size of the team.

In months. One-off costs spread across a longer engagement, so the cost per day falls.

Onshore means hiring into your own market, whatever the working pattern. Offshore assumes you set up your own team in a lower-cost market, with no local desk or equipment.

How this is worked out

No figure on this page is invented. Every one traces to a published statistical source or to a stated assumption you can read and disagree with.

Gross salary

Taken from the national statistics office of each market: the ONS in the UK, the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the US, Eurostat across Europe, Job Bank in Canada and the ABS in Australia. Each role maps to that country's own official occupation code.

Employer cost

Statutory on-costs on top of salary: social security, pension, mandatory insurance and levies, taken from each country's own legislation and applied at the correct thresholds and ceilings. Where a cost is mandatory but has no published rate, we say so rather than treating it as zero.

Recruitment

A published agency fee schedule, or the cost of running your own recruiting function if you choose that instead.

Overheads

HR and management time as a share of payroll, plus equipment and desk space where the engagement model needs them.

Vacancy and ramp

The output you lose while the role is open, and while a new joiner comes up to speed. Reported separately and never added to the money figure, because they are not the same kind of cost.

Attrition

The expected cost of replacing someone during the engagement, which grows the longer the engagement runs.

What this does not do
Where the data comes from

Every source is a national statistics office, a central bank or a government publication. We do not republish figures from salary aggregator sites.

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