True-cost calculator · 2025 AU benchmarks
Your front desk isn't a salary line. It's a silent tax.
Base salary is the sticker price. Once you add super, workers comp, payroll tax, recruitment, equipment, leave and management overhead, every onshore hire costs ~42% more than their salary. Pick the roles you were going to hire. We'll show the real number.
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How we calculate this
· Base salary: ABS Characteristics of Employment (August 2024) and Seek salary insights (2025) medians for each role.
· Super: 12% (legislated from 1 July 2025).
· Payroll tax: 5.45% NSW. Only applies above the $1.2M threshold; we include it conservatively. Lower in other states.
· Workers compensation: 1.4% average (varies by industry classification).
· Leave loading & accrual: 4 weeks annual + personal leave priced at ~2.5% of salary.
· Recruitment & onboarding: A$6,000 average per hire amortised + 3 months at 50% productivity.
· Equipment, desk, software: ~A$3,000/year per seat.
· Management overhead: 10% of salary (HR + performance + cover when sick).
· Easier Clinic pricing: Growth package mid-point (A$5,250/mo + A$4,500 setup) for 2–4 seat equivalent; Scale mid-point for 5+.
The maths most clinics skip
A A$65k hire costs A$92k. Before they take a sick day.
Most clinic owners budget against base salary. Bookkeepers know the truth: every role carries a 35–45% loading before you count down-time, turnover, and management cost.
A front-desk hire who quits at month 11 costs you the base salary and the recruitment cycle and the ramp loss and the team instability that triggers the next resignation.
Easier Clinic sells you outcome coverage, not seats. The replacement guarantee is ours. The ramp risk is ours. The compliance training is ours. Your cost is a single monthly number — not a second spreadsheet.
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