The True Cost of a Hire: An 80,000 Salary Costs You 86,050
The salary on the offer letter is the one number nobody receives. An 80,000 hire costs your business 86,050 a month and reaches your employee as 57,877. Here is where the rest goes.
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The salary on the offer letter is the one number nobody receives. An 80,000 hire costs your business 86,050 a month and reaches your employee as 57,877. Here is where the rest goes.
PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, Housing Levy, NITA. Current 2026 rates, the small print most payroll systems still miss, and what each one costs to get wrong.