We used salary number for the 2010-11 season from the website Sports City to calculate payroll cost per win.
Insurance and payroll taxes cost more here, he discovered, and the telecom bill is higher.
Contrary to popular belief, customer service is not a cost center like payroll processing or other non-strategic business functions.
Over the years they have increased the retirement age slowly from 65 to 67, raised payroll taxes, delayed a cost of living increase and made as much as 85% of the once tax-exempt benefit checks taxable.
It urged cost controls such as a payroll tax on rich clubs to finance poorer ones.
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The current cost is 55% of payroll, far more than most employers put aside.
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Not only did the Bulls win the most games in the NBA this season, they did it with the fifth-lowest payroll, making the team the most cost-efficient in the league.
One of the simplest ways would be to eliminate payroll taxes, which would lower the cost of labor in the US by roughly 17 percent and offset that loss of revenues with taxes on materials, energy, pollution, and land.
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And the comparison understates the cost of hiring in Brazil: its payroll taxes are among the world's highest.
Remember though that the payroll taxes only actually cover one third of the cost (other funding sources such as premium payments, state transfers, general tax revenue, and borrowing cover the rest).
If they don't want to vote against a payroll tax cut, they can vote to offset the cost with spending cuts.
While rising wages and benefits are good for employees, those increases can lead to higher inflation if businesses are forced to boost the cost of their products to cover the higher payroll costs.
Margin Deterioration: Generally, a flower shop's payroll should eat up 30% of sales, and the cost-of-goods-sold another 30%-33%.
These include web apps from major shippers that can check for compliance and estimate costs, low-cost international calling plans and companies that offer global payroll services.
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There is talk of reducing taxes on electricity, which double its cost, and applying to all industries a cut in payroll taxes that was given last year to a select few.
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But the ultimate plan for payroll taxes is to phase them out entirely in favor of lower cost personal accounts to finance the benefits currently financed by those taxes, as discussed in previous columns in this space.
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Overall, the direct cost of incidental absences is only about 2% of the payroll, according to a 2010 survey of 473 employers of all sizes by benefits consultants Mercer.
That adds up to 57.9%, but state income taxes and 1.45% of the payroll tax are deductible from federal income tax, so that reduces their net cost by 5.8% (39.6% of 14.75%).
Bush's opposition deprives the commission of one source of revenue to shore up the program's finances so that Social Security can cover the cost of allowing younger workers to invest a small portion of their payroll taxes in private investment accounts.
At Alison Eighteen, the cost of sales is kept at a maximum of 23%, and payroll straddles 25% to 28%.
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"We did no actual cost cutting, but we have watched costs very carefully, especially our payroll, which needs to be 30% to 32% of revenue, " he says.
If they're wrong, the cost is low enough that it won't be a drain on their payroll.
They pay not just regressive sales taxes, payroll taxes, and others that target them directly, but they also indirectly bear the cost of those aimed at the rich.
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The Congressional Budget Office, which lumps the payroll tax cut with extended jobless benefits in its analysis, has warned that eliminating both would cost the economy 0.7 percentage points of growth and 800, 000 jobs in 2013.
Some of the proposals would cost tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars -- like the payroll tax cut.
Functions that are outsourced by most companies payroll, IT, maintenance, janitorial are often performed in-house (at very high cost).
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Christine Mahoney of Mercer Consulting reckons that the cost of funding a 60-year-old employee in a DB scheme is 12% of payroll, whereas in a DC plan it is just 6%.
While Obamacare includes new health insurance welfare to help pay that cost, the net that working and middle class taxpayers would have to pay is still like a new payroll tax or income tax.
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The prosecution's star witness, one-time oil industry executive Bill Allen, has testified that he sent people on his payroll to work on the Stevens renovation, and that he absorbed tens of thousands of dollars in labor and material cost.
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