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What does bookkeeping really cost your firm in-house?
A salary is only part of it. Add payroll taxes, benefits, software and the hours nobody can bill, and the true cost of each productive hour is often well above the salary rate. Put in your own figures below.
These are example figures: replace them with your own. Employer payroll tax is worked out as Social Security at 6.2% of salary up to $184,500 (2026), Medicare at 1.45%, and federal unemployment tax of $42 a year. State unemployment tax varies by state, so include it in other costs.
Your in-house cost
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True cost per productive hour$0
The work you'd hand over, a month$0
A year$0
Salary$0
Employer payroll taxes$0
Benefits$0
Other yearly costs$0
Total employment cost$0
Productive hours a year0
Hours back for your team a year0
How it's worked out
The math behind the number.
- Employment cost is salary plus employer payroll taxes, benefits and your other yearly costs per person.
- Productive hours are 52 five-day weeks less paid time off, at the hours worked a day, less the unbillable share.
- True cost per productive hour is the employment cost divided by the productive hours.
- The work you'd hand over is the hours a month multiplied by that hourly cost.
It leaves out the time it takes to recruit, train and supervise, and the cost of covering absences, turnover and tax-season overtime, so the real figure is usually higher.
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