# Employee benefits expense

> Employee benefits expense — The employer's own share of health premiums, HSA and retirement contributions and other benefit costs, recognized in the period the cover or the service relates to. The employee's share is not in it: that was part of gross wages.

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**What is employee benefits expense?** In accounting, employee benefits expense means the employer's own share of health premiums, HSA and retirement contributions and other benefit costs, recognized in the period the cover or the service relates to. The employee's share is not in it: that was part of gross wages.

## Words this system refuses for it

- payroll expense (gross wages)
- insurance expense (the company's own policies)

- **Category:** Benefits
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)
- **Related:** gross-pay, expense, period