Calculators
Do the maths before you compare offers.
Two tools that calculate on your numbers only — we do not substitute market averages or metrics of our own. Everything is calculated in your browser, nothing leaves for a server. All amounts are in Polish złoty (zł).
What does an hour of work really cost?
An employee’s hourly rate is not the cost of that employee. Below is a breakdown into components and a comparison with the agency model — on the contribution rates in force, not on guesswork.
Your numbers
Your full hourly cost
- Worker rate
- 31,40 zł
- + employer contributions (20,48%)
- 6,43 zł
- + recruitment driven by turnover
- 1,07 zł
- + HR and payroll handling
- 0,71 zł
- Employing people yourself — total
- 39,62 zł
- Agency offer
- 43,00 zł
Difference: 3,38 zł per hour, which is 5 684 zł per month across the whole team. That is the price of moving the risk over — below you can see exactly what for.
What sits on the agency side
- Cover for absences — you do not pay for a shift that stays unfilled.
- Continuous recruitment, peak season included — the cost of turnover stays on our side.
- HR, payroll, medical checks, health and safety, workwear — off your department.
- Scaling up and down with no layoffs and no notice periods.
- For larger teams the hourly rate goes down — ask about the threshold.
How we calculate: employer-side social contributions at the statutory rates — pension 9,76%, disability 6,50%, accident 0,67–3,33% (depends on the business classification, PKD), Labour Fund (Fundusz Pracy) 2,45%, guaranteed employee benefits fund (FGŚP) 0,10%. Recruitment and HR handling are spread over the working hours of the whole team. The calculator does not include the cost of unfilled shifts, the drop in pace while new people are being onboarded or your supervisors' time — in practice these push the cost of employing people yourself higher. This is a comparison tool, not an offer and not tax advice.
What does an unstaffed shift cost you?
Staffing gaps rarely have their own line in the budget — they dissolve into overtime and volume that never got shipped.
Your result
- Units not done per shift
- 960
- Lost margin
- 768 zł
- Extra pay for catching up
- 192 zł
- Cost of one shift
- 960 zł
Per month
5 760 zł
Per year
69 120 zł
We calculate on your numbers only — we do not plug in any “market averages”. The result is an estimate of the two components that are easiest to count; the cost of turnover, of quality and of supervisor overtime is not in here.
In preparation
A turnover cost calculator (recruitment + onboarding + lost pace) and a calculator for the size of an operational buffer. Would you like us to let you know when they go live? Write to us.