China Employee Cost Calculator

Free calculator that estimates the cost of hiring people in China, including employer social insurance and housing fund contributions, plus employee net pay, covering 50 cities and updated every half year. Dan Young Business Consultancy helped many foreigners to set up company in China. After company registration, many of our clients asked us about the cost to hire employees in China, and we needed to teach them repeatedly. Now we made this calculator to let all foreigners check and understand the cost of hiring workers in China easily. The total is more than salary alone. Employers owe social insurance and housing fund contributions on top of gross pay, and rates and contribution bases vary by city. This is why the same salary can cost noticeably more in Shanghai, Beijing, or Shenzhen than in a smaller city, and it is the single most common budgeting mistake foreign companies make when they hire their first employee in China.