The South Africa Recruitment Cost Calculator provides a "True Cost of an Employee Calculation" for the first year of employment when factoring holistic employment and startup costs. The calculator is designed to provide insight into the full costing model for employing a new employee in South Africa and, together with iCalculator™'s South Africa Payroll calculator for 2024, provide the gross employment costs of your current staff in South Africa, help you budget employment costs in South Africa for your financial year, anticipate staff costs for future expansions in South Africa and review past costs in order to gauge future employment costs in South Africa.
Understanding the calculations behind the South Africa Recruitment Cost Calculator 2024
Whether you are the Director of a multi-million organisation, setting up a new company in South Africa , or have a business venture in South Africa, knowing where your money goes and how much you spend on employment resources is essential. Staff costs in South Africa are one of the biggest expenditures for a company, but it isn’t just wages that cost the business money, there are additional expenditures, known more commonly as 'on-costs' or 'onboarding-costs'.
Calculating the true cost of an employee in South Africa can seem very complex but, as with most financial calculations with multiple elements, they can each be placed into simple cost buckets which allow us to provide a simple working formula:
tce = sc + bc + oc + fc
where:
- tce = The True Cost of an Employee in South Africa
- sc = Salary Costs in South Africa
- bc = Benefit Costs in South Africa
- oc = Onboarding Costs in South Africa
- fc = Facilities in South Africa
Each of these costs includes a number of sub elements which are defined within the calculator where you can enter specific amounts or a percentage rate for benchmarking expenditure. Please review the supporting guide "Calculating the 'True Cost of an Employee in South Africa' in 2024" which explains the associated costs computed within this calculator.
The True Cost of an Employee in South Africa Calculator is similar to the Cost Per Hire Calculator with the addition of live income tax and salary deductions for an employee working in South Africa in 2024.
South Africa Cost of Employment: Tax Years available
We currently support the following tax years for employee cost calculations in South Africa, if you require additional tax years, please get in touch and we can add them to the list of available tax years.