Staff budgeting by position · for Finance & HR · early access

Every position. Every dollar. Accounted for.

Headcount, salaries, bonuses, benefits and employer taxes in one model. Version it, compare plan against actual, export board-ready reports – without another 40-tab spreadsheet.

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Positions modelled
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The product

The model, live.

Real product logic – change a headcount and every number below recalculates.

01 · Budget FY 2027draft v2
Annual cost
$0
+18.4% vs FY26
Headcount
0
+38 positions
Employer taxes
$0
24% of gross
JanMonthly employer costDec
02 · Hiring ramp
20 → 20 FTE
03 · Versions
FY 2026$3.4M
FY 2027$4.2M
+0.0%year over year
04 · Employer taxes
0%
Calculated automatically
The formula
 headcount ×salary +bonuses employer taxes =the number
05 · Plan vs FactQ1 actuals loaded
Production
−6.2%
Administration
+8.1%
FactPlan
06 · Approve & export
Approve FY 2027
Locked · Nov 12
budget_FY2027.xlsx · board-ready
96%
of finance teams still plan in spreadsheets
AFP FP&A Benchmarking Survey, 2025
71%
already own a planning tool – and use spreadsheets anyway
AFP FP&A Benchmarking Survey, 2025
70%
of total costs can be labour, in people-heavy businesses
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The problem

Your biggest cost line lives in your most fragile file.

People are the majority of the budget – and they're planned in the one tool with no version history, no permissions and no audit trail.

01

One broken formula, one wrong number

Someone inserts a row, a SUM range silently stops matching, and the figure that reaches the board is wrong. Nobody finds out until the variance review.

02

Nobody knows which file is current

budget_2027_v4_FINAL_final(2).xlsx. Three people edited three copies. Reconciling them is a day of work, every single round.

03

Taxes are modelled as a flat percentage

Real payroll taxes have caps, brackets and thresholds. A flat rate over twelve months quietly misstates the annual number – usually in the wrong direction.

04

Open roles fight the HR system

You're budgeting twelve unfilled positions. Every HR tool is built around the employee record, so unfilled roles don't exist – and your plan doesn't fit the tool.

05

Plan vs actual is a manual merge

Actuals come out of payroll in one shape, the plan lives in another. Comparing them means a pivot table someone rebuilds from scratch each quarter.

06

Scenarios mean copying the whole file

"What if we delay the Q3 hires?" becomes another workbook that immediately drifts out of sync with the base case.

Spreadsheets drift. Links break, tabs multiply, and by March nobody trusts the number.

Yesepy budgets the position, not the person – headcount, pay, bonuses and employer taxes stay one connected model.

Version it. Approve it. Compare plan against fact every month, and walk into the board meeting with the number that holds.

What Yesepy does

A real model of your payroll cost – not a prettier spreadsheet.

Built around the position, so budgeted roles and open headcount are first-class citizens.

01

An org structure that fits

Divisions, departments and units – the flexibility to model your organisation the way it actually works. Every level rolls up automatically.

  • Model your real structure, flexibly
  • Cost rolls up at every level
  • Drill down from total to a single role
02

Full cost of a position

Salary is the start, not the answer. Model everything that actually hits the payroll line.

  • Bonuses – percentage or fixed
  • Benefits and work essentials
  • Shift schedules and overtime
03

A tax engine that respects caps

Employee and employer taxes with brackets, ceilings, deductions, exemptions and an explicit order of application.

  • Annual cost from 12 real months
  • Caps and thresholds handled correctly
  • Per-position exemptions
04

Budget versions, not copies

Clone a version to model a scenario. Baseline, approved plan and what-ifs live side by side and stay comparable.

  • Clone a full year in one click
  • Lock approved versions
  • Compare any two versions
05

Plan vs actual, quarter by quarter

Upload actuals with a pre-filled template that already knows your positions. Variance is computed, not assembled.

  • Pre-filled upload template
  • Variance by structure and position
  • Unplanned hires captured separately
06

Analytics that answer questions

Year-over-year bridges, burn-rate curves, quarterly movement and volume-versus-rate – so you can say why the number moved.

  • Was it headcount or was it rate?
  • Where exactly the money moved
  • Burn rate against the annual envelope
How it works

From spreadsheet to model in an afternoon.

01

Bring your structure in

Import your org and positions from Excel, or build them directly. Divisions, departments and units – mapped to the way your company is really organised.

02

Set the rules once

Define bonuses, benefits, schedules and your tax rules – with their caps, brackets and order – a single time. Every position inherits them.

03

Plan, version and approve

Adjust headcount and salaries and watch the total move live. Clone the version to test a scenario without touching the base plan.

04

Track actuals and explain the gap

Upload actuals each quarter against a pre-filled template. Get variance, year-over-year bridges and burn rate – and export the whole pack to Excel or PDF.

Live workshop

Build a staff budget from zero.

A hands-on session for people who've inherited the payroll budget and no one ever explained how it's actually built. We start from an empty sheet and finish with a defensible annual plan – then rebuild the same thing in Yesepy in minutes.

Built for first-timers. Already know the drill? You won't need a workshop – Yesepy is intuitive enough to model your budget yourself, from day one.

  • How to structure an org so the budget rolls up cleanly
  • What belongs in cost-per-position – and what quietly gets forgotten
  • Why payroll taxes are never a flat percentage, and how to model caps
  • Building the annual number from twelve real months, not one month × 12
  • Setting up plan-versus-actual so variance explains itself
  • Live Q&A on your own budget structure
$890
Live session + recording · per company
Live workshop & recordingIncluded
Workbook templatesIncluded
3 months of Yesepy Growth$1,047 value

Dates announced to the list first · Limited seats

Pricing

Priced by the size of your workforce.

Priced by the headcount you budget, not per user – every plan includes seats for the whole finance and HR team.

Starter
$149
/ mo
Up to 100 employees
For a growing company that has outgrown the spreadsheet.
Start with the demo
  • 5 team seats included
  • Divisions, departments & units
  • Full salary, bonus & tax engine
  • 3 budget versions
  • Plan vs actual & all analytics
  • Excel & PDF export
Most popular
Growth
$349
/ mo
Up to 500 employees
For finance teams running a real annual planning cycle.
Start with the demo
  • Everything in Starter
  • 10 team seats included
  • Unlimited budget versions
  • Version comparison & scenarios
  • Quarterly actuals tracking
  • Year-over-year & burn-rate analytics
  • Priority support
Scale
$799
/ mo
Up to 1,000 employees
For multi-entity organisations with complex structures.
Start with the demo
  • Everything in Growth
  • 20 team seats included
  • Multi-entity structures
  • Custom tax rule configuration
  • Onboarding assistance
  • Priority support with SLA
Enterprise
Custom
 
1,000+ employees
Let's talk about what your structure actually needs.
Contact us
  • Everything in Scale
  • Unlimited employees & seats
  • SSO & advanced permissions
  • Dedicated onboarding
  • Custom SLA

Every account starts with the free 7-day demo – the full product, capped at 15 employees and one budget version; XLSX and PDF exports unlock on paid plans. Upgrade whenever you're ready, or subscribe right away – the caps lift on the same account, and everything you've built stays. Tiers are sized by headcount – the number of employees in a budget version, not the number of positions. Team seats are included in each plan; there are no per-user charges.

Questions

Before you ask.

How is this different from our HR system?

An HRIS is built around the employee record – a real person with a start date and a contract. A budget is built around the position, including the twelve roles you haven't hired yet. That difference sounds small and turns out to be the whole thing: budgeting open headcount in a tool designed for existing employees means fighting the data model on every screen.

Do you replace our FP&A or accounting system?

No. Yesepy models one line – staff cost – properly, and exports it. If you run a full FP&A platform, Yesepy feeds it a payroll number you can defend. Most teams using us were doing this line in a spreadsheet, not in a planning tool.

What counts toward my plan's employee limit?

Total headcount in a single budget version – the sum of headcount across all positions. One position called "Operator" with 50 people counts as 50. Versions don't stack: keeping five yearly versions of a 300-person company still counts as 300, not 1,500.

Can I model our country's payroll taxes?

Yes. Tax rules are yours to define: rate, base, order of application, caps, thresholds, deductions and per-position exemptions, for both employee and employer side. The annual figure is always built from twelve calculated months, so caps and brackets land where they actually land instead of being smeared across the year.

How do actuals get in?

Download a template that already contains your positions and plan figures, fill in what payroll actually paid, and upload it. Positions you hired but never budgeted come in as unplanned and are reported separately, so they don't quietly disappear into the variance.

Can I get my data out?

Every screen exports to formatted Excel, and reports print to PDF, on every paid plan – it's your data, and there's no lock-in. The one exception is the free demo, where exports stay locked until you subscribe.

Why charge by headcount instead of per user?

Because the value scales with the size of the workforce you're budgeting, not with how many people look at it. Charging per seat would push you to share one login, which is worse for you and worse for us.

What does early access mean right now?

The product is built and working – you can try the 7-day demo right now, no invitation needed. The early-access list is for going live: join it and we'll onboard you personally, with founding-member pricing locked in and an invite to the next live workshop.

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