Webinar: Beyond salary: building a total cost of employment view for 2027 planning

A salary benchmark tells you what to offer. It doesn't tell you what the hire costs.

Employer costs – social security, pension contributions, mandatory extra months of salary – add between 0% and 70% on top of a salary, depending on the country. That gap is big enough to change where you open your next role, and it rarely appears in the first version of a headcount plan.

Ravio and Playroll have combined salary benchmarks with employer cost data across 42 countries to show what the same hire – a mid-level Software Engineer – costs in each market. It changes the ranking. Belgium, Italy, and France all cost more to employ than the UK, Germany, or the Netherlands, despite paying lower salaries.

On 1st December 2026 at 14h00 GMT, Julia Frey, Head of Sales at Ravio and Gary Singh, VP of Sales at Playroll, walk through the data and what it means for 2027 headcount planning.

We'll cover:

• Where employer costs land hardest across Europe, and the two things that make a country expensive
• What changes when you rank markets by total cost instead of salary – Estonia's €15,900 salary saving over the Netherlands shrinks to €2,700 once employer costs are in
• How to build a country-by-country total cost view your CFO can rely on
• What teams routinely miss: accruals, benefits, Employer of Record (EOR) fees, and the tax charged on top of them

This one is interactive. We'll run live polls throughout so you can see how your own approach compares with everyone else in the room, and we'll leave time for your questions throughout.

For Reward, People, and Finance teams planning headcount in more than one country and trying to decide where to hire.

Can't make it on the day? Register anyway, and we'll send you the recording and key takeaways after the webinar wraps up.