Productivity
Model a hiring plan
Fully loaded cost by month, not a list of base salaries.
Fill it in
Roles, levels, and roughly when each starts.
It changes taxes and benefits.
Employer taxes, benefits, equipment and software.
Your prompt
Model the hiring plan. [your who and when] Locations: [your where] Fully loaded, which is the whole point. Base is roughly two thirds of what a person costs: employer taxes, benefits, equipment, software seats, recruiting fees and payroll costs. A plan built on base salaries is short by a third and is always found out in month four. Phase by START date, not by approval date. A role approved in January and filled in May costs five months less this year, and modelling it as twelve overstates the burn and understates next year. Include an assumed time to hire per role and let it be changed in one cell. Engineering and sales are not the same number. Show monthly cost, cumulative headcount, and the run rate at year end.
Use Model a hiring planOpens with everything above already filled in.
Why this works
Base salary is roughly two thirds of what a person costs, so a plan built on it is short by a third and is always found out in month four. This loads taxes, benefits, equipment, tools and recruiting, and phases by start date rather than approval.