Employers pay half of payroll taxes for their employees. Freelancers pay the full amount, around 15% for social security and medicare. Obviously that means emp

Employers pay half of payroll taxes for their employees. Freelancers pay the full amount, around 15% for social security and medicare. Obviously that means employers offer lower salaries since they care about the total cost to them not the actual salary amount. So it's not really a bad deal for free lancers, just the amount you get paid has to be/sound higher to make things equivalent.