Benefit cost, tied to the ledger

The employer share of benefits is real payroll cost that never appears on a payslip. It hides inside ledger totals nobody can split by department. This report splits it, and the split ties to the account payroll already proves.

RuleRoll employer premiums from the enrollment fact to the same ledger account the payroll reconciliation proves. One number, two derivations, forced equal.

Neverreport benefit cost from a source the ledger tie has not passed. An untied benefits number reopens the whose-number argument payroll already closed.

The benefits bill made budgetable: each department sees the employer cost its choices create.

◆ The report, May 2026by department, tying to account 6020.

Department	Employer benefit cost
Sales	165,825.00
Technology Delivery	108,787.50
Support	84,409.20
Unassigned	757.80
Total, ties to account 6020	359,779.50

This is the same 359,779.50, in the same split, that the payroll-to-ledger reconciliation proves as account 6020, employer benefit cost. Two independent derivations, one from enrollments rolled up and one from payroll results, forced to agree, and the battery recomputes the tie on every build.

The unassigned row stays visible for the same reason it does on the labor cost report: money charged to no department is a finding, not a rounding error. Sample values are illustrative, never client data.

◆ Where the money hidesthe employer share never touches a payslip.

Employee deductions are visible everywhere: on payslips, in deduction registers, in every payroll export. The employer share, typically the larger number, exists only as employer-cost lines inside payroll results and as premiums on the carrier bill. Delivered reporting shows it in totals; splitting it by department, plan, and month needs the enrollment fact with the premium split on the row.

Once split, the follow-on questions are groupings: cost per covered worker by plan, tier mix by department, and the trend as enrollment moves. Fully loaded cost per person, the number the worker pages promise, is payroll plus exactly this.

◆ The queryone rollup of the enrollment fact.

This report is ordinary arithmetic over the benefits star, and that page is the reference.

Use case

Problem

The employer share of benefits hides inside ledger totals, unsplittable by department and untied to anything.

What we build

Employer premiums rolled from the enrollment fact to the same ledger account the payroll reconciliation proves.

What you get

Benefit cost by department that agrees with the books by construction, and the fully loaded cost view it completes.

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We ship the benefit cost that ties to it, checked on every build.

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Terms on this page

battery: The automated set of checks, including the crossfoot arithmetic, run on every build of this catalog.
employer share: The premium portion the company pays. The bigger, hidden half.
GL: General ledger. Account 6020 is where this money lands.
deduction register: The payroll view of employee shares. Half the story.
fully loaded cost: Pay plus employer taxes plus this: benefits.
unassigned: Cost charged to no department. Kept visible as a row.
tier mix: How enrollment spreads across coverage tiers.
tie: A check that two independently built totals agree.