Empowering Healthy Business: The Podcast for Small Business Owners

#17 - Can You Afford to Hire an Employee?


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Healthy businesses have an established business model in which most new incremental hires produce profit for the business. Payroll expense can be viewed as an investment that yields a profitable ROI. Usually a hiring decision boils down to a question of how much more revenue do you need to sell in order to afford a new hire. This episode helps answer the question of whether you can afford to hire an employee.

More specifically, this episode includes:

  • Viewing Employees as Profit Centers
  • Return on Investment vs Affording a Hire
  • How Much Do You Need to Sell to Afford a Hire?
  • How Much Does a Salesperson Need to Sell to Pay for Themself?
  • How Much Must the Business Grow to Hire a Manager?
  • Labor Value Multiple
  • Forecasting; Fixed & Variable Costs

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Empowering Healthy Business: The Podcast for Small Business OwnersBy Cal Wilder