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Your first hire costs more than their salary

Between CPP, CPP2, EI at 1.4× the employee rate, and the time you stop billing to manage someone, your first employee costs far more than the wage. Here is how to budget the real number before you post the job — so the hire grows you instead of sinking you.
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Hire for the slow season, not the rush

Everyone hires when they're drowning, which means hiring badly under pressure. The owners who get it right plan seasonal hiring against a cash forecast and bring people on before the wave. Here is how to time it so payroll lands when revenue can carry it.
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If you have run a business for a few years, you know things that matter to every founder coming up behind you. Mentioned exists to make that knowledge visible. We lightly edit for clarity and length. No commercial pitches, no thinly disguised marketing. Just the real version of what you would say to another founder over coffee.

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