Cost calculator
What does a German team really cost?
German buyers routinely underestimate the employer burden. We show what it consists of and state the verified savings range. The exact calculation comes with the proposal.
Your parameters
Your selection
- Function
- Business process outsourcing
- Number of people
- 5
- Main language
- German · C1
- Coverage hours
- Business hours
- Delivery location
- Poland
Verified saving
40 to 75 percent
against the fully loaded cost of an equivalent hire in Germany, on blended global delivery.
The exact calculation depends on function, scale, language mix, coverage hours and delivery location. Request a proposal and you get a substantive answer within six hours.
Request an exact quoteThe employer burden an in-house hire carries
- Employer share of statutory social insurance of about 21 percent of gross pay: pension 9.3 percent, health 7.3 percent, long-term care 1.8 percent, unemployment 1.3 percent, plus half of the supplementary levy
- The U1 (sickness), U2 (maternity) and U3 (insolvency) apportionment levies
- Statutory accident insurance contributions to the Berufsgenossenschaft
- Paid holiday and continued pay during sickness for up to six weeks
- Recruitment and workspace cost, plus management overhead
In total, the fully loaded cost of a German hire regularly runs to roughly 1.3 times gross salary before recruitment, workspace and management are added. That is the base the verified saving compares against.
Sources: Germany Trade & Invest and Nettolohn-Rechner.com, 2026 social security contributions.
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