[tjohns]

Taxes, health care, other insurance (disability, etc.), and other benefits (401k, etc.) are a significant fraction of the cost to employ someone. These things are not cheap.

The standard overhead is (I believe--correct me if I'm wrong!) anywhere from 25% to 100%, depending on your base salary and how competitive the benefits package is.

[bkanber]

At our company the overhead is about 40% of the salary, and could easily reach 80-100% with bigger and better benefits packages.