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You're severely overestimating... unless your expectations are way out of whack compared to mine. At my company, which employees about 48,000 people worldwide and about 14,000 in the US, the burden rates are roughly as follows:

US: 30% Brazil: 98% Mexico: 102% Most of western Europe: 30-50% China: 40% India: 20%

Mexico & Brazil are far higher due in part to unionization and their respective CBAs, which guarantee such things as time-and-a-half pay for vacation, an extra month's pay as annual bonus (separate from any merit based bonus), and generous employer retirement/pension contributions. The US is really low because 1) group health insurance is actually fairly affordable, especially when a wellness program provides healthy lifestyle incentives, 2) we have been going about 3 years between salary increases for the past 7 years, and 3) equity grants and discretionary bonuses typically aren't funded below the manager level.

I think this is pretty typical of large enterprises, though generosity will depend on profitability and culture. Some obviously do a far better job of treating employees well than others.