Employer cost

The salary is the number a founder knows. The real cost is the salary plus the employer charges on the payslip plus a handful of bills that never touch a payslip at all. This skill reads one month of payslips, splits every line by the side it belongs to, earning, employee deduction or employer charge, and states the per person figure that comes out of that. It then lists, for the same month, the payroll related bills that left the bank without a payslip behind them, at company level, because those payments carry no link to a person. A line the payslip left blank is reported as unread, never as zero.

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What does an employee actually cost us?

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  1. You ask

    What does an employee actually cost us?

  2. Pin the workspaceSkill useddefine-workspace

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  3. Pin the monthSkill useddefine-period
  4. Read the schema
  5. Read the month's payslips with their lines
  6. Check the read covered the month
  7. Account for the rows a date filter cannot place
  8. Split the lines by side, per person
  9. Read the payroll bills that no payslip carries
  10. Keep each currency its ownSkill usednormalize-currency
  11. Show the rows
  12. If any required step errors or returns unusable data
  13. You get

    One month of payslips read per person: gross pay, the employee deductions and the employer charges the payslip printed, split by the rubric side Well holds, with the payroll-related bills paid from the bank listed separately at company level.

Frequently asked questions

Which forms does this cover?

United States: the payroll register, the workers' compensation policy, and the DBL and PFL policy and contributions. Germany: the Lohnjournal and the BG Beitragsbescheid. Belgium: the fiche de paie and the quarterly DmfA. Italy: the monthly riepilogo contabile del costo del personale, and CCNL contributions to fondi sanitari, enti bilaterali and the fondo pensione. Spain: the nomina, also called the recibo de salarios, and the seguro de convenio. France: the bulletin de paie, the mutuelle and prevoyance amounts due, and the taux AT/MP notification. Well reads the payslip documents in that list, the bulletin de paie, the fiche de paie, the nomina and their equivalents, wherever they are already in the workspace as payslips, and every amount it states per person comes from one of them. The rest, the workers' compensation policy, the DBL and PFL contributions, the BG Beitragsbescheid, the DmfA, the CCNL fund contributions, the seguro de convenio, the mutuelle and prevoyance amounts and the taux AT/MP notification, Well names so you know what is due and shows only where a bank debit for them landed in the month. The summary documents, the payroll register, the Lohnjournal and the riepilogo contabile, are named as the bureau's own recap to check this answer against, not read.

Does Well file any of this?

No. Well never files, signs or transmits a statutory return or a contribution declaration. Not to the IRS, ELSTER, ONSS, the Agenzia delle Entrate, the TGSS or net-entreprises. It reads, checks, reconciles, reminds and prepares the hand-off. You or your bureau click submit.

Can I get the fully loaded cost per person?

Only for the halves a payslip prints. Gross pay, employee deductions and employer charges are stated per person, because each payslip line carries the side it sits on. The off payslip bills are not: a bank transaction carries no link to a person, so a workers' compensation premium, a BG contribution or a mutuelle bill is reported for the month at company level and never divided between heads.

Can it split cost by department or cost centre?

No. A department can sit on an employment contract, but nothing in Well allocates cost by it, and the contracts are not readable as their own records. The answer is per person and per company, and it says so rather than approximating a split.

What happens with more than one currency in the month?

Each payslip keeps the currency it was issued in and the answer reports per currency. A payslip line carries no exchange rate, so nothing is converted line by line. A single converted figure is given only at the total, with the rate and the rate date beside it, and a currency with no rate is named and left out rather than quietly dropped.

Does it compute or check the contributions?

No. It reads what the payslip printed and what the bank paid. It does not recompute a contribution, apply a rate, or judge whether a charge is correct, complete or compliant for your country. A missing amount is reported as unread, never as zero and never as a clean result.

Does it count hours or absences?

No. Well records no time. There is no timesheet, shift, attendance or absence record, so an hours figure appears only where a payslip itself printed one.

Can it cost a hire I have not made yet?

No. It reads months that already have payslips. For a budget on a future hire, take this month's figures and do the arithmetic yourself.

How is this different from the cost structure report?

The cost structure report groups a month's whole spend by category. This one reads payroll on its own, splits the payslip by side, and adds the payroll related bills that sit outside a payslip. The two are different questions and do not tie out against each other.

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