About HeadcountDesk
Onboarding paperwork and hiring math built for small employers and nobody else
Who it is for
Built for small employers only
What it does not do
- no payroll run, no shift scheduling, no benefits brokerage
What is on this site
8 free tools, each working its figure on the page with no account, and HeadcountDesk Pro that keeps the record. All tools · Pricing.
- Labor cost calculator: Total the period's hours into its labor cost: overtime split out at time and one-half, unpaid breaks deducted, gross pay and the effective rate per paid hour.
- How to write an employee contract: Set the salary, hours, leave, probation, notice and bonus terms, and see every figure the contract will state.
- How to calculate employee turnover rate: Work out your turnover rate for any period, annualise it, and put a cost on it from the salaries of the people who left.
- Timesheet invoice template: Turn a contractor's timesheet into an invoice: hours at the agreed rate, premium hours, expenses, tax where it applies, and the balance due.
- New employee onboarding checklist: Scope the onboarding of one hire: how many items, which are due by day one, and what the manager time costs.
- Free employee handbook template for small business: Turn your PTO, holiday, probation and accrual choices into the figures every handbook section states, and see how many sections you need.
- 90 day performance review: Score a 90 day performance review from competency ratings and the goals set at thirty days, at the weights you set, and see the probation decision and merit increase that follow.
- True cost of employee calculator: Add employer payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, workers compensation, benefits and paid time off to the salary, and see the true cost per year and per productive hour.
What HeadcountDesk Pro keeps
The answers are free forever. Pro turns them into your paperwork: your logo on the handbook and the contract, no watermark, every employee's documents saved against their record, reminders to the people who need to sign, and clean exports.
Reach us
Contact for a question about the product, ask whether HeadcountDesk Pro does a particular thing, Support when something is broken or money is wrong, or hello@headcountdesk.com. The legal terms are on Terms and Privacy.