Employer budget, evidence first

Know the staff budget without inventing payroll law.

Combine cash salary with current employer obligations, benefits, recurring costs, hiring, equipment and annual extras. You provide the verified legal or payroll amounts; AfroTools handles only the arithmetic.

No bundled ratesCurrent obligations come from your evidence

1–60 monthsPlan one hire or a team

Employer viewNo PAYE, take-home or termination guess

Local exportsCopy, CSV and PDF

Build the evidence-led budget

Use per-person amounts. Enter employer obligations as a current monthly amount after applying the correct rate, ceiling, sector and worker scope outside this planner.

Currency codeUse ISO code, for example NGN, KES, ZAR or GHS.

Headcount

Planning horizon (months)

Monthly cash salary per person

Monthly employer obligations per personEmployer-side pension, social insurance, levy or similar amount from current evidence.

Monthly benefits and insurance per person

Other monthly staff cost per personSoftware, workspace, phone or other recurring employer cost.

One-off recruitment cost per person

One-off equipment and setup per person

Annual bonus and other annual benefits per personUser-confirmed amount; the planner does not assume a thirteenth-month obligation.

Planning contingency (%)A budgeting choice, not a statutory rate.

Employer-obligation source labelName the authority, published schedule, payroll evidence or qualified adviser.

Source checked dateSources older than one year are blocked for rechecking.

I confirm the relationship has been reviewed as employment. This budget does not decide worker classification.

I confirm the employer-obligation amount reflects the current jurisdiction, sector, ceiling and worker scope shown by the named evidence.

Total staff budget

No budget

Confirm employment status and current employer-obligation evidence before calculating.

Planning only. This is not payroll processing, tax filing, a salary recommendation, a classification decision, an accounting entry or legal advice.

Exact calculation

recurring = (salary + employer obligations + benefits + other) × headcount × months

total = recurring + recruitment + equipment + prorated annual extras + contingency

Inputs retain full precision. The screen and exports display two currency decimals.

Method sources

IFRS Foundation: IAS 19 Employee Benefits

Supports separating wages, social contributions, paid benefits and non-cash benefits in employer cost analysis.

ILO Recommendation No. 198

Supports determining employment from the facts of the relationship rather than a contract label. It does not supply a country-specific legal answer.

Deliberately excluded

Employee PAYE, deductions and take-home pay.
Automatic country rates, ceilings or foreign exchange.
Contractor/EOR price or legal-risk recommendations.
Leave valuation, severance and termination liability.
Accounting recognition, payroll filing and remittance.

Questions to settle before approving headcount

Why does AfroTools not choose the statutory employer rate?

Rates can depend on jurisdiction, assessment period, worker category, sector, risk class, contribution ceiling and exemptions. This planner requires your current evidence instead of presenting a generic African rate as law.

What should employer obligations include?

Use the employer-side pension, social insurance, payroll levy or similar monthly amounts supported by your current jurisdiction-specific evidence. Keep employee deductions out of this field.

Why is worker classification a confirmation?

ILO Recommendation No. 198 says the real facts of work and remuneration matter. A calculator cannot safely decide status from price alone, so the staff plan opens only after you confirm that review happened elsewhere.

Where are salary and source details stored?

They remain in the open browser tab. The page uses no local storage, account save or AI prefill. CSV and PDF are generated locally.