Cost of Employment RulerEmployer cost, with every assumption exposed

Your numbers

The employee's gross annual salary, before any employer costs.
Employer-paid benefits: health, retirement match, etc. Leave at 0 if none — 0 means excluded, not that the obligation is zero.
Equipment, software, workspace — anything else you want included.
Advanced — statutory rates & additional inputs
Enter the UI rate on your 2026 DE 2088 notice. New employers are generally 0.034 (3.4%); ordinary Schedule F+ rates run 0.015–0.062, with a higher statutory penalty rate possible under CUIC section 977(c).
Enter the ETT rate on your 2026 DE 2088 notice: normally 0.001 (0.1%) with a non-negative UI reserve balance, or 0 when ETT does not apply. Use the rate assigned to your employer by EDD.
Operator input only. Enter a current-year confirmed rate as a decimal (for example, 0.012 = 1.2%). Leave blank when the current year has not been confirmed.

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California employer cost estimate

California unemployment insurance is employer-specific. Enter the 2026 UI rate from your DE 2088 notice; new employers are generally 3.4%, ordinary Schedule F+ rates run from 1.5% to 6.2%, and a statutory penalty rate can be higher.

Planning estimate from user-entered assumptions and published rate tables. Some employer-specific lines require your actual rate. Not payroll, tax, legal, or classification advice. Confirm exact obligations with a professional.

What this California result covers

California unemployment and training-tax rates are employer-specific, so this route asks for the rates assigned to your business instead of hiding a generic burden assumption in the answer.

Included in this result

  • Federal Social Security and Medicare
  • Federal unemployment tax when the current-year credit-reduction input is supportable
  • California UI and ETT using the rates you enter from DE 2088
  • Benefits and overhead you enter

Not included in this result

  • Workers’ compensation and local employer costs not collected by this route
  • Employee-paid California SDI, which is shown separately rather than added to employer cost

Employer input / scope: Your California UI and ETT rates are required for a California-specific subtotal; the current-year FUTA credit-reduction field stays explicit rather than being guessed.