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Employee Cost Calculator
Employee Cost Calculator: True Cost of a Hire by Role
This employee cost calculator prices a hire by role, seniority and area from BLS data. A US median software engineer costs $167,868 in year one.
I run Cluma, a design subscription for SaaS teams. When founders weigh a hire, the number on the table is usually the salary. The real first-year cost is a lot higher once you add benefits, payroll taxes and the hiring process itself.
So I built a free calculator that adds it all up:
20 roles startups hire most, from software engineer to customer support
US wage data (BLS, May 2025) for the national average, every state and the big metro areas
Benefits, payroll taxes and cost per hire included, each with its source
Time to fill shown next to the cost
Advanced settings to use your own numbers: salary, benefits, recruiter fees, and the hours your team spends interviewing
No signup and no email needed to see the result.
About Employee Cost Calculator on Product Hunt
“Employee Cost Calculator: True Cost of a Hire by Role”
Employee Cost Calculator was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #157 on the daily leaderboard. This employee cost calculator prices a hire by role, seniority and area from BLS data. A US median software engineer costs $167,868 in year one.
On the analytics side, Employee Cost Calculator competes within Hiring, Remote Work and Human Resources — topics that collectively have 21.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Employee Cost Calculator performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Employee Cost Calculator?
Employee Cost Calculator was hunted by Christoph Bogatzki. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Christoph Bogatzki
Hi Product Hunt,
I run Cluma, a design subscription for SaaS teams. When founders weigh a hire, the number on the table is usually the salary. The real first-year cost is a lot higher once you add benefits, payroll taxes and the hiring process itself.
So I built a free calculator that adds it all up:
20 roles startups hire most, from software engineer to customer support
US wage data (BLS, May 2025) for the national average, every state and the big metro areas
Benefits, payroll taxes and cost per hire included, each with its source
Time to fill shown next to the cost
Advanced settings to use your own numbers: salary, benefits, recruiter fees, and the hours your team spends interviewing
No signup and no email needed to see the result.