Operations
Team Salary Budget Calculator
Team Salary Budget calculator: allocate salary budget across roles before hiring — see midpoints, total cost, and budget utilization.
Result
Allocation by role
Each role's share of the total team salary budget.
Role breakdown
How to use it
- Enter your total salary budget, then add each role with a title, a salary range (minimum and maximum), and the number of people you plan to hire into it. The tool uses the midpoint of each range as the planning figure, so set ranges that reflect real market bands rather than aspirational lows, since the midpoint is what your budget will actually have to cover.
- Read the per-role breakdown showing the salary midpoint, the total cost for that role's headcount, and its share of the budget, plus the total allocated, the remaining budget, and your utilisation percentage. Utilisation above 100% means your planned hires exceed the budget, which is the constraint to resolve before you start recruiting rather than after you have made offers.
- Use the per-role budget shares to sanity-check your staffing priorities. If a single role consumes half the budget, that is a deliberate bet on one function that should be defensible; if the allocation is spread thin across many roles, you may be hiring breadth before you have the revenue to support depth in any of them.
- Treat remaining budget as a buffer for the costs salary ranges hide. Salary midpoints exclude employer taxes, benefits, and overhead, which typically add 25-40% on top in the US, so a plan that fully allocates the budget at midpoint is actually over budget once loaded costs are included. Keep headroom or run each role through the employee cost tool for the fully loaded figure.
- Re-run whenever the budget, headcount plan, or market salary bands shift, and use it to test trade-offs before committing: one senior hire versus two mid-level, or deferring a role a quarter to preserve runway. Pair it with the cost-per-hire tool to budget for recruiting the team, not just paying it.
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Use it from code
The same calculation as a JavaScript module you can import. It runs where you import it, with no request, key or rate limit.
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