You finally decided to hire someone to handle HR and payroll. You post the job, make the offer, and breathe a sigh of relief. Problem solved, right?
Not quite.
What most business owners don't realize is that the moment you shake hands on that offer, you've already started spending, and salary is only the beginning. There are costs hiding in plain sight at every stage of the hiring process, and some of the biggest ones? Most owners never see them coming at all.
Join us for our upcoming webinar, The $9,000 Handshake: What a New Hire Really Costs Your Business as we pull back the curtain on the true cost of hiring for payroll and HR, and show you a smarter way to protect your business.
When business owners think about the cost of a new hire, they typically think: salary + benefits. Done.
But that calculation leaves out a long list of real, measurable expenses that hit your budget before, during, and well after your new employee's first day.
Source: SHRM
We'll break each one down in detail on our webinar, but here's the short version:
Source: SHRM | Source: TimeClick
Here's a question worth sitting with: What happens to your business if your HR person makes a mistake? Or gets sick? Or leaves?
When one person owns your entire HR and payroll function, your business is more exposed than most owners realize.
Source: TimeTrex | Source: Paycom | Source: U.S. SBA
Compliance violations, misclassification errors, and missed filings don't just carry fines, they can trigger audits that look backward two to three years.
By now you're probably starting to sense that the cost of a new HR hire is bigger than the salary. What you may not have considered yet is whether there's a smarter path altogether, one that gets you experienced HR and payroll support without the recruiting spend, the ramp time, the turnover risk, or the single-point-of-failure problem.
We'll show you exactly what that looks like, with real numbers, on our upcoming webinar!
What you've read here is just the surface. In The $9,000 Handshake: How Much a New Hire Really Costs You, we'll go beyond the stats to show you exactly where the money goes, what the risk really looks like for businesses like yours, and how different HR models (in-house, fractional, and hybrid) stack up when you see the full cost breakdown.
Walk away knowing what your HR decision is actually going to cost you, before you make it.
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