What an open engineering seat actually costs you
Six fields. The calculation runs in your browser and stays there — change the numbers as freely as you like.
The date the work must be out of your hands — expertise, tender, submission.
Salary plus employer costs, seat, licences and management time — not the gross salary alone.
Search, notice period and ramp-up together. Twelve to sixteen weeks is the usual answer.
Overtime is counted at 1.5× — that is what the hour actually costs.
Your numbers
- Cost of one open seat, per week
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- Overtime premium over the period
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- Total cost of the gap until the deadline
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- Weeks of capacity hiring cannot recover
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- Latest date a hire still makes the deadline
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A seat filled in two weeks recovers the difference between those two lines. We are not putting our rate in this calculator — you would rightly not trust a number chosen by the side selling it. Ask and we will quote against your brief.
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Your inputs and the result, plus what a seat for this discipline would cost — an actual number for your brief, not a price list.