When you are analyzing the cash flow of each new employee, you need to look beyond their core salary. Things like benefits, commissions, computer setup and more should be taken into account. Roughly these costs add on about 33% to the employee’s base salary, although with the huge amount of international hiring that we’ve seen, this can be lower in some non-US locations.Another important metric to add to the cost of an employee in your model is wage inflation. We are seeing wages go up 10% to 25% a year at the moment for many technology employees, so don’t forget to include a salary increase annually. Our free templates have an assumption area where you can easily input this wage increase.