About Hire Rulebook

Hire Rulebook is published by Work-Life Survival Center LLC and edited by Michael Baumgartner, SPHR, an HR executive with 25+ years of experience, including Amazon and AWS in Japan, multi-country HR leadership and fractional CHRO work.

How we check facts

• Every fact links to an official government or statutory body source and shows the date we last checked it.
• Statutory, conditional, customary and vendor items are labelled separately. Customary costs are never added to statutory totals.
• When we can't fully confirm something against the official text, we mark it verify instead of guessing.
• Vendor country guides are not used as sources for statutory facts.

Disclaimer

The calculator gives estimates for budgeting only. Actual costs depend on the employee's situation, province, state or prefecture, industry classification, contracts and work rules. Nothing here creates an adviser-client relationship. Corrections are welcome via Submit.