Illizeo keeps, dated and current, the entire base a hire is costed on: salary, extra months, bonuses, work rate. Here is how to use it to build a figure that holds.
What Illizeo keeps for you #
A hiring cost is built in two steps: the pay base, then the contribution rate applied to it. Illizeo keeps the first — current, dated, and the very same one that will go out in payroll. The second depends on the country, the canton, the fund and the status: it comes from whoever produces your payroll.
| Cost element | Where to find it |
|---|---|
| Base salary | Illizeo — pay record, with effective date |
| 13th / 14th / 15th month | Illizeo — payroll settings, with the payment month |
| Bonuses and variable components | Illizeo — pay components on the record |
| Work rate | Illizeo — rate history |
| Employer contributions | Your payroll producer |
| Insurance and pension | Your insurance contracts |
| Position costs (equipment, training, desk) | Outside Illizeo’s scope |
Method #
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Start from a comparable position already in Illizeo #
Rather than building a theoretical case, take the real pay of an equivalent position. It already carries the right components and the right extra months.
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Add up the annual elements #
Monthly salary × the number of instalments actually paid — note that the 13th and 14th are configured independently and may be split across several months — plus recurring bonuses.
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Ask your payroll producer for the contribution rate #
It is a percentage per country and canton. Once you have it, apply it to the annual gross you just reconstructed.
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Check after the first payroll run #
The month’s wage bill, in the period summary, gives the real delta against the previous month. That is the one figure nobody argues with.
What does not exist #
No hiring-cost calculator. No built-in employer contribution tables. No total annual cost computed. No comparison between statuses or contract types. No simulation export to send a candidate.
FAQ #
Why not build the tables in?
Because an approximate table is worse than none: an offer built on a wrong cost surfaces at the first payroll run, once it has already been signed.
Can we at least see the wage bill?
Yes. Each payroll period’s summary gives the month’s wage bill and its delta against the previous month, with grouping by department, office or sub-company.
And to quote a net figure to a candidate?
Go through your payroll producer. Quoting a roughly estimated net is the surest way to start an employment relationship on a misunderstanding.
