Cost of hiring in France: how to calculate it
What does a hire really cost in France?
The figure everyone quotes has no French source and its scope was never defined. This page starts over: what INSEE, DARES, France Travail and APEC actually measure, what English-language benchmarks are worth, and the four cost items to add up to build a hiring cost that holds.
You will also find the only cost per application measured and published in French, with its method and its limits, and a way to set a budget without a magic number: start from your own rates and measure from the first campaign.
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