[dec0dedab0de]

34 Million a year for 220 employees? I know that includes office space, equipment, and benefits, but that still seems like a lot to me.

Edit: I must have had a brain fart when I wrote this, because I was thinking over a million per employee. Now it seems too low.

[pianom4n]

Not really, that's only $155k per person. The cost per engineer is probably around $400k.

[JustSomeNobody]

I feel so underpaid right now it's not even funny.

[aylmao]

Well, cost per engineer probably includes not only salary and stock but office space, amenities, business expenses, benefit programs, etc.

[foobaw]

Even considering insurance/benefits, stock options, and various bonuses, 400K/year is a lot more compared to 150K.

[CocaKoala]

Note that the 400k/year is cost per employee, which does not directly translate to "paychecks and benefits per employee".

The employer pays payroll taxes, needs to pay rent on square footage for the office to support the employee, etc. That's all going into cost per employee, but isn't money the employee sees directly.

[pkaye]

Assume 200k/year in the employee salary. Break down how much the other things you mentioned above will add?

[CocaKoala]

From some quick googling:

Office space in San Francisco is ~$5 per square foot per month, and an employee needs somewhere between 100-250 square feet of office space. So if you give them a small 175 square feet, then you're at ten grand per year.

Medicare is %2.9 percent of salary, half paid by the employee and half by the employer. Social security is %12.4 percent, again split between employer/employee for 6.2 percent from each. . It looks like California's unemployment tax is another %4.2

I have no idea what the average cost per employee things like health insurance and other benefits cost; I'm sure you can google as expertly as I can, so now that I've shown some good faith in giving you a starting point I trust you're willing to take it to the finish line.

There's probably some other taxes that I'm missing, since I don't run a business and have never had call to learn about the ins and outs of these things. Usually it comes up in conversations around negotiating for raises to give somebody some perspective about how much they care about an extra ten grand a year (a lot) versus how much their employer cares (it's basically a rounding error compared to how much their bottom line for retaining an employee is).

[stouset]

That's only $150k per employee.