Cost of hiring calculator
Choose a role and a US state to see the median wage[1], the full employer cost with benefits[2], and what a remote hire costs in the first year with our one-time fee[3] and a Deel contractor plan[4].
$76,590median wage per year
$109,414employer cost with benefits
$14,488remote hire, first year
$94,926difference in year one
BLS median for executive assistants in the United States, plus 30% benefits.
How the numbers work
- Median wage: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, for the selected state.
- Employer cost: wage divided by (1 − 30%), the share of benefits in total compensation in US private industry.
- Remote hire: 12 months of the pay you enter, plus a $2,500 placement fee and $49 a month for Deel.
Sources
- BLS OEWS May 2025: https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, private industry, June 2026: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm
- Silkstaff pricing: https://silkstaff.com/#pricing
- Deel pricing, contractor management: https://www.deel.com/pricing/
How these pages are built: methodology and data sources. Data checked 2026-10-16.