AGENT 22 / 50 · TREASURY & LIQUIDITY

Payroll Planning Agent

Projects payroll cost forward from headcount, hiring plan and attrition — the single biggest line in most cost bases, modelled month by month.

READS FROMiUL ledger, HR headcount data

MCP SERVERTreasury Server

MODELRouted to reasoning-tier open model

HANDS OFF TOBudget Planning Agent, Burn Rate Monitor

RUN THE AGENT

Set headcount and hiring plan, generate the payroll projection

This is a live working demo of what the agent produces — adjust headcount, salary and hiring pace and it recalculates the 12-month payroll cost instantly.

ASSUMPTIONS

Current headcount 22

Average annual salary 58000

Employer on-costs (NI, pension) 14%

Planned net new hires / month 2

Monthly attrition 1.2%

£123K

Current monthly payroll

£1.47M

Annualised payroll

Projected headcount, month 12

£66.1K

Fully-loaded cost per FTE

Month

HOW IT WORKS

What the agent actually does

1. Pull headcount data	Reads current headcount, salary bands and on-costs from HR data and the iUL ledger
2. Apply the hiring plan	Adds planned net new hires and removes expected attrition month by month
3. Project cost	Calculates fully-loaded monthly payroll cost including employer NI and pension across the horizon
4. Hand off	Passes the projection to the Budget Planning Agent and Burn Rate Monitor