Free Salary Benchmarking Tool With Fully Loaded Employer
Costs

[fs-toc-h2]Where Does the Salary Benchmarking Data Come From?

The two numbers in this cost-to-hire calculator come from two different sources, and each one is tailor-made to give you the trusted numbers you need to make better decisions for your team.

Salary benchmarks: Ravio

Ravio connects securely to the HR and payroll systems of more than 1,700 companies. The benchmarks show what those companies actually pay their people, pulled straight from the systems that run payroll. They're not job ad ranges or figures people typed into a survey.

Ravio's data science team reviews it for accuracy and outliers, and a benchmark only appears when there's enough data behind that role, level and location to make it reliable. You'll never see an individual person's salary.

Filters for Role, Region, and Industry

The employer cost calculator is based on Playroll's internal data as a leading Employer of Record. These are the same employer tax and statutory contribution rates we apply when we run payroll for employees in each country, and our in-house team keeps them up to date as local laws change. It’s the part most salary tools leave out, but it's often where hiring budgets go wrong – especially for employers hiring internationally.

For example, in many European countries, employer social security contributions add 20–30% or more on top of gross salary. A €70,000 offer can turn into a much bigger line in your budget, and that gap is exactly what the fully loaded cost shows you.

For more on how the process works, check out our guide to global salary benchmarking.Results are estimates based on current statutory rates and aren't tax or legal advice.

[fs-toc-h2]Why Trust Ravio Salary Data Over Glassdoor, LinkedIn or Salary Surveys?

Most free salary data tells you what someone said a role pays. Ravio's data tells you what companies are paying, taken from their payroll.

When you're making an offer to a senior engineer in Berlin or a sales lead in São Paulo, you want the number that reflects what the market is really paying this month.

[fs-toc-h2]Key Features of the Ravio & Playroll Salary Benchmarking Tool

1. Salary benchmarks from real payroll data

Salary ranges come from Ravio's compensation benchmarking data, pulled directly from the HR and payroll systems. You're comparing your offer against what companies pay, not against advertised salaries or self-reported estimates.

2. Fully loaded employer costs from Playroll

See what it would cost to employ someone at different salary points. The calculation adds the applicable employer taxes and statutory contributions to gross salary, using the rates we apply when we run payroll for international hires in that country as the Employer of Record. An expandable breakdown shows where every part of the total comes from.

Where it's supported and relevant, additional payroll or visa-related costs may be shown, or covered separately.

3. Three salary scenarios

Compare employer costs at conservative, target and competitive salary positions, so you can see how much a stronger offer adds to the total budget.

4. Country, role and seniority filters

Choose the market, job area and seniority level for your planned hire. The tool matches the Ravio benchmark to Playroll's employer-cost data for that country.

5. Country hiring guidance

Get country information and related Playroll hiring guides alongside your result, so you can go from a benchmark to a proper international hiring plan.

Benchmarked the Role? Now Plan the Hire

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[fs-toc-h2]From Salary Benchmark to Compliant International Hire

Once you know what the role pays and what the hire will cost, Playroll can help you make the hire. We employ people on your behalf in 180+ countries through our own entity network, so you don't need a local entity to hire compliantly.