Infinitabs

“Expenses for a fulltime employee Currently the yearly wage of a software engineer here in Berlin is around 50k EUR gross, seniors earning around 10k more. This is what the employee will receive gross, minus tax and insurances. The employer has his own share that he needs to pay in addition. That would be around 21% on top.

Let’s assume a yearly salary of 55k EUR for the employee, the employer would have to pay:

55.000 EUR * 1.21 = 66.550 EUR Plus all the extras:

desk technical equipment training & personal development conference tickets office supplies like paper coffee Surely some also apply to freelancers if they work at the customer site.

Equivilent daily and hourly rates To compare a bit better let’s calculate the equivilent daily and hourly rate.

Working days per year in Germany:

total days per year:        365 Saturdays per year:          52 Sundays per year:            52 Public holidays:             10 Vacation days:               25 Sickleave:                    5

Total working days:         221 So the daily rate would be:

66.550 EUR / 221 days ~ 300 EUR/day If we have 8 daily working hours we get an hourly rate of:

300 EUR/day / 8 hours/day = 37.50 EUR/hour “But freelancers charge way more than that!”