Why Does the $15/hr Developer End Up Costing You More Than the $150/hr One
Most founders do this math: $15/hr × 300 hours = $4,500 saved. Done. Hired.
But here's what that spreadsheet doesn't show, the $15/hr developer takes 300 hours to build what a $80/hr developer finishes in 40. That's $6,000 vs $3,200. And the cheaper version still comes out messier, harder to maintain, and packed with shortcuts that will cost you later.
Now add the invisible costs: the rework, the debugging sessions that stretch for weeks, the features that have to be rebuilt from scratch because the foundation was wrong. Suddenly, your "bargain" hire has cost you double, or triple, what the experienced developer would have charged.
The hourly rate is one of the most misleading numbers in business. The real metric is cost per outcome. And when you measure it that way, cheap developers are almost never cheap.
Read the full breakdown:
https://apidots.com/blog/cheap-developers-cost-more/ Why Does the $15/hr Developer End Up Costing You More Than the $150/hr One
Most founders do this math: $15/hr × 300 hours = $4,500 saved. Done. Hired.
But here's what that spreadsheet doesn't show, the $15/hr developer takes 300 hours to build what a $80/hr developer finishes in 40. That's $6,000 vs $3,200. And the cheaper version still comes out messier, harder to maintain, and packed with shortcuts that will cost you later.
Now add the invisible costs: the rework, the debugging sessions that stretch for weeks, the features that have to be rebuilt from scratch because the foundation was wrong. Suddenly, your "bargain" hire has cost you double, or triple, what the experienced developer would have charged.
The hourly rate is one of the most misleading numbers in business. The real metric is cost per outcome. And when you measure it that way, cheap developers are almost never cheap.
Read the full breakdown: https://apidots.com/blog/cheap-developers-cost-more/