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Salary to bill rate

Turn a candidate's salary into the hourly rate you pay them and the rate you bill your client, at the margin you want to keep.

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01 FM · The calculator
How is this person hired?
Bill rate per hour$81.46What you charge your client, at your target margin.
Hourly pay rate$48.08The salary divided by 2,080 hours.
Pay cost per hour$58.65Pay plus burden.
Over a year, at 2,080 hours
Revenue
$169,444
Pay cost, with burden
$122,000
Gross profit
$47,444
02 FM · How it's worked out

How it's worked out

We divide the salary by 2,080 hours, which is 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, to get the hourly pay rate.

For a W-2 hire we add your burden, meaning the employer costs that sit on top of pay, such as payroll taxes and insurance. That gives the pay cost. A 1099 or corp-to-corp contractor carries no burden, so their pay cost is simply their pay.

The bill rate is the pay cost divided by one minus your margin. At a 28% margin, you keep 28 cents of every dollar you bill.

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