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Where does it say that an employee costs twice their salary? My experience is more like 25-30% more.


At these salary levels it might very well be closer to 25%, there's only so much fancy health insurance and 401k matching and other tax/fees you have to cover as an employer.

At a more "normal" salary the 1.5-2x figure is pretty accurate in my experience.




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