Team & Payroll
Salaries, wages, and the cost of employing your team.
Team & Payroll captures the cost of your people — gross salaries, wages, and employer contributions. For most founders it's the single largest operating line.
Appears under Operating Expenses in the Foreqast table, as an expense. Ledger key: Payroll.
What lands here
What to watch out for
Payroll is the steadiest line on the table, so the default projection is usually accurate — right up until the headcount changes. A trailing average cannot know about an offer you are about to make, a notice period that ends next month, or a raise agreed but not yet run. Every one of those is a step change, not a trend. Simulate the hire before you make it rather than waiting for the average to catch up two months later.
Planning this line properly is what Affording a hire is for.
How it's forecast
With the default setup — no extensions, no drivers, no custom projections — Team & Payroll is projected from your own booked actuals using the trailing 30-day average: the last 30 days are summed and divided by 30 to get a daily rate, which is carried forward flat and aggregated into each week and month.
daily rate = sum of the last 30 days of actuals ÷ 30
monthly forecast ≈ daily rate × days in monthFor Team & Payroll, €28,000 booked over the last 30 days gives €28,000 ÷ 30 ≈ €933/day, so a 30-day month projects to about €28,000. As new actuals import, the window rolls forward and the projection updates on its own.
Horizon: up to 24 months of history and 24 months forward. The table shows 12 months (or 13 weeks / 90 days) by default — scroll horizontally for the rest.
Want a different shape — a fixed cost, a growth trend, or a share of revenue? That's what the Custom Projection extension and driver-based forecasting are for. This page describes the default, historical-only behaviour.