Your 30k salary costs your employer around 50-60k (I don't know the deal with your benefits and payroll taxes and all that). Rule of thumb in the US is that yo

Your 30k salary costs your employer around 50-60k (I don't know the deal with your benefits and payroll taxes and all that). Rule of thumb in the US is that you add about 40% to a salary to get the total cost to the company to support that salary. And that's just taxes and basic benefits. Add a pension and 401k with matching, and it goes higher.