Cost of hiring: how much an employee actually costs the employer
The gross salary is not what it costs the company to hire you: on top, the employer pays its own Social Security contributions. Enter the annual gross salary and see the total cost broken down by each contribution concept.
What the cost of hiring includes
The total cost is the gross salary plus the employer's Social Security contributions, computed with the same rates the net-salary calculator uses for the employee's own share.
- Each concept (common contingencies, unemployment, vocational training, MEI, FOGASA and work accidents) has its own rate, and the unemployment rate depends on whether the contract is permanent or temporary.
- The work-accidents rate is the only one that varies by business activity; every other rate is the same for every employer.
- Like the employee's own contribution, the employer's is only applied up to the maximum contribution base, so the cost stops growing past that ceiling.
Employer contribution rates: Orden PJC/297/2026, de 30 de marzo (BOE-A-2026-7296), arts. 4 and 16; work-accidents premium tariff, sixty-first additional provision of the Ley General de la Seguridad Social.