True-cost calculator

Hiring one engineer buys you one body, and makes you their PM.

Salary is the small part. Add burden, recruiting, tools, ramp and idle bench and the real number doubles, and you still run the project yourself. A GIS-Point cell ships Engineer + PM + QC as one unit.

What do you want to strengthen?

Your in-house hire

Pick the discipline you want to strengthen. We preset a US benchmark salary. Edit anything.

Discipline to strengthen

Grouped by our production departments. Sets both the in-house benchmark and our real GIS-Point rate.

How many FTE1 person

Compare a whole sub-team at once.

Base salary / year$95,000

Preset from the discipline above. Drag to match your market.

Tune assumptions

Payroll burden & benefits30%

Employer taxes, insurance, PTO, 401k, equipment.

Software & workstation / year$12,000

TerraSolid, LP360, Global Mapper, GPU workstation, amortized.

Overhead / year$8,000

Workspace, IT, admin per head.

One-time recruiting cost20% of salary

Agency / sourcing fee as % of salary, spread over tenure.

Annual turnover15% / yr

Drives how often you pay to re-recruit & re-ramp.

Ramp to full productivity3 mo

Months paid before output is billable.

Productive utilization70%

Share of paid hours on real project work.

Embedded rate / month$3,800 / mo

Real GIS-Point monthly rate, all-in: PM oversight + QC + tools. Final by scope & seniority.

Embedded utilization92%

Higher: you scale hours to real load, no idle bench.

Extend your production department, not add a headcount.

See how a GIS-Point cell plugs into your pipeline in ~15 days: Engineer + PM + QC, your tooling, your workflow.

No pitch deck. Bring your numbers. We map your pipeline and show the swap-in plan.

Estimated annual saving

$105,381

Same capacity, 3 functions instead of 1, and 70% less all-in for 1 cell, every year.

In-house

$150,981

all-in / year

Embedded cell

$45,600

all-in / year

What you get	Hire in-house	GIS-Point cell
Engineer	✅ ×1	✅
Project management	❌you do it	✅included
Quality control (QC)	❌you do it	✅rework <7%
Time to output	~13 wks	~15 days
Recruiting & turnover risk	on you	on us

In-house cost, broken down$150,981 / head

Base salary is only 63% of the true per-engineer cost.

Loaded salarySoftwareOverheadRecruitingRamp loss

In-house / productive hr

$104

Embedded / productive hr

$24

Rework saved by QC / yr

$19,628

Functions per unit

3vs 1

Our price, shown up front: embedded specialist, PM + QC includedGIS-Point rate · final by scope & seniority

$3,800 / mo

How the math works

In-house / year= salary×(1+burden) + software + overhead + recruiting×turnover + ramp loss (loaded salary × ramp months × turnover, the productivity you pay for but don't get on each new hire). Productive hour = annual cost ÷ (2,080 hrs × utilization). Embedded cell / year = monthly rate × 12 × cell count: tools, recruiting, burden, PM and QC are inside the rate. Rework saved ≈ in-house annual × (industry 20% − our 7%). Defaults are US-market benchmarks; every field is editable.

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What you get

Hire in-house

GIS-Point cell

Engineer

✅ ×1

✅

Project management

❌you do it

✅included

Quality control (QC)

❌you do it

✅rework <7%

Time to output

~13 wks

~15 days

Recruiting & turnover risk

on you

on us