[quote=GH]Not true. My last job they indicated employee overhead was around 33% (unemployment, SS, Insurance, Health etc). They told me they would love to give me what I asked but with all the overhead they could not.

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I can’t dispute what your employer told you. At my company, taxes and other employee benefits cost 22% of base salaries, and about 6% of additional compensation. Most of that is employer paid medical insurance and paid time off. Unemployment makes up less than .3%. Just to be clear, that is less than 3/10ths of 1%. On a payroll of over $12M, it is less than $25K a year. Workers comp insurance costs more than unemployment insurance (and that’s with an extraordinarily low worker’s comp classification and rate). If the cost of employer paid unemployment insurance went away, you would not get a raise.