Hiring Plan
A schedule of planned hires with roles, start dates, and compensation, used to model payroll growth and runway impact before offers are made.
What is Hiring Plan?
A hiring plan lists who you intend to hire, when they start, and what they cost. It connects people decisions to financial outcomes.
Each planned hire increases monthly burn and shifts cash-out date. A hiring plan lets you model these effects before signing offer letters: "If we add two engineers in July and one salesperson in September, what happens to runway?"
Good hiring plans include fully loaded costs: salary, benefits, employer taxes, and tool access, not just base compensation.
Why it matters
Hiring is the largest discretionary burn driver for most startups. Unplanned or mistimed hires compress runway faster than any tool subscription.
Modeling hires against runway prevents celebratory announcements followed by quiet panic two months later.
How RunwayCal helps
RunwayCal's planner and scenario tools model hiring plans against live burn and runway, showing exact runway impact per role and start date.
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