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"Then there are the dollars that need to go to retirement and matching fica funds and Obamacare dollars and OSHA safety training seminars and on and on..."

I did leave out a couple of things that I should have included:

The employer tax for Medicare of 6.2%.
The employer tax for Social Security of 1.45%.
Employee Comp is required for any but the smallest firms in TN, so I assume that's true of all states. 1.7%

That adds a 9.35% cost, to the 2.7% staff time I already identified. Woohoo, we are up to 12.05%. Still a long way to go to get to 50%.

But Retirement plans and Health insurance plans other than Medicare and SSA are optional. That's not a "compliance" cost. At least it's not a federal compliance cost. There may be some states that require it. TN doesn't. If it's optional, it's not compliance, instead it's a wage differential. Companies offered those plans to be competitive in the marketplace.

Now that there is excess labor, you see more and more companies dropping these benefits.

Health will become compliance under Obamacare, but that does nothing to justify the offshoring of the past.

OSHA training seminars. When I worked for the firm with 3000 employees, the only people I can think of that would have been required for OSHA training would be warehouse workers. So that's 4 out of 3000.

When I was CFO for a company using lasers, EPA and OSHA compliance was one of my duties. The laser company compliance was limited to operations personnel (50% of total) watching a 2 hour video on blood borne pathogens and the gathering MSDA sheets for every chemical we used. I did the latter that took me about 4 hours one day. Seems like I also had to write a plan that took me about 4 more hours.

When I owned a medical firm, OSHA costs were a little higher. Everyone had to have the training on Blood borne pathogens. It probably took me a day to gather all the MSDA sheets. We had to have special disposal procedures. But most of the regs were from Medicare or State Health regulations. Not OSHA. We also had to properly mark the exits and certain rooms. That was less than a $200 one time cost.

EPA was never a significant factor in either one. Medical waste had to be disposed of properly, We had some special containers and a service that picked it up once a week. But that's still not a significant cost.

So now you've changed your story from 2.7 to over 12 percent. and we still haven't discussed sick days mandatory pregnancy days vacation time down time for holidays and glossing over retirement and healthcare costs and such is a nice try on your part but it don't fly. IT ALL ADDS COSTS to the bottom line!

Don't forget that the FEDGOV can arbitrarily change the compliance regs and tax laws which then cost even more money.

If you notice every time I point out stuff you were wrong about you go "Well yeah but..." and then try and coverup the fact your first claim was totally wrong.