What's an unfilled engineering role actually costing you? Most leaders guess wrong — by $40,000 or more.
The talent math your firm is running is probably broken. Not because your team isn't sharp — but because most firms have never actually modeled what a U.S. engineering hire fully costs, end to end.
This report does it for you. It benchmarks the true, fully-loaded cost of onshore talent, quantifies what every open seat is costing you in delivery capacity, and shows you what a nearshore-augmented model actually looks like in practice.
Here's what operating without this data is costing you right now:
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You're underpricing engagements — because your cost-per-engineer model doesn't include recruiting cycles, ramp time, benefits burden, or manager overhead
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Open roles aren't just annoying — they're ~$45K liabilities per seat — in lost billable capacity alone, before you count client satisfaction impact
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You're staffing reactively instead of strategically — and reactive hiring during a delivery crunch costs 40–60% more than a proactive nearshore model
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Your team is doing the math wrong on nearshore — dismissing it on rate card alone without accounting for time zone overlap, ramp speed, and turnover savings
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Every delayed sprint is a delayed invoice — on a $500K milestone engagement, two sprints of delay is $50K–$80K in deferred revenue sitting on your P&L
