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Base salary is 60% to 87% of the total annual cost across the published combinations. The rest is employer contributions (social security and payroll taxes paid on top of salary), benefits, equipment, recruiting and the onboarding ramp (the weeks before a new hire works at full productivity). Every figure carries a source and a date; formula defaults are marked as defaults.

Publisher

Ryan Mitchell, Senior QA Engineer.

Ryan Mitchell is a QA engineer with over eight years of experience testing web and mobile applications. He specializes in test automation with Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium, alongside API testing and integrating automated checks into CI/CD pipelines.

Ryan has worked with SaaS, healthcare, and fintech teams, helping them build reliable regression suites and improve release processes. He writes about practical testing strategies, common automation mistakes, and the changing role of QA in AI-assisted development.

Independence

This site is a personal project of the publisher. It sells nothing, takes no placements and names no vendor as a recommendation. Figures are computed from public sources by the published formula.

What the site does not do

No salary negotiation advice, no legal or tax advice, no immigration guidance, no recommendation of a hiring model or a vendor. Employer cost components are estimates from public rates.

How to check a figure

Every cost page lists its sources with dates and shows the formula. The dataset holds the same figures as CSV and JSON. Corrections go to hello@qahiringcost.com.