Prestige OSS

$4,800. Just to make the hire.

That's the average it costs a US company to add one person to their headcount, before they earn a dime, learn the systems, or take a single client call. Source: SHRM's most recent benchmarking data.

The $4,800 covers job board fees, agency commissions, recruiter time, candidate travel, background checks, and onboarding admin. It's the entry fee for adding one role to your team.

For a 20-person team, that's nearly $100,000 a year spent on the act of hiring, not on the work itself.

A Prestige OSS team comes built. No agency fees, no recruiter overhead, no onboarding admin. Your first dollar goes toward output.

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Every hire has two costs. Most budgets only track one.

The visible cost is the salary on the offer letter. The invisible cost is everything else. Employer taxes, benefits, PTO, equipment, software, recruitment fees, onboarding hours, the productivity dip during ramp, and the eventual replacement cost when they leave.

Industry research consistently puts the invisible cost at 1.4× to 2× the salary itself.

When you compare local hiring to a Prestige OSS remote team, you aren't comparing salary to salary. You're comparing one number, ours, all-inclusive, against two numbers, theirs, half of which never gets budgeted.

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42% of people who voluntarily left their job in the past year said their manager or organization could have done something to keep them.

That's the headline finding from Gallup's 2024 turnover study, and it directly contradicts how most companies think about retention.

The default assumption is "we'd have to pay more." The actual data says it's about communication, recognition, development, and management quality. Pay was rarely the trigger.

Most retention problems aren't compensation problems. They're management problems.

Prestige OSS remote teams are built with retention in mind from day one. Dedicated managers, regular check-ins, performance visibility, and engagement built into how we operate.

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"Offshore" gets defended on cost. That's the wrong defense.

The real argument for remote teams isn't that the people are cheaper. It's that you remove the costs that make local hiring expensive in the first place. The 44-day vacancy. The 1.4× overhead multiplier. The 200% replacement cost when someone leaves.

Same caliber of professional. None of the friction.

When companies tell us "we don't want to compromise on quality," we agree. That's exactly why this works.

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Most companies still hire one person at a time.

It's the default mode, and it's why scaling a team feels endless. One role, one search, one offer, one onboarding. By the time you've filled three seats, the first hire has already started looking for their next job.

Serial hiring is slow by design.

We build in parallel. Twenty-one days from kickoff to a fully running remote team. Not one role at a time. A full team, recruited, onboarded, integrated, and producing on the same timeline most companies spend filling a single seat.

The math on hiring stops working when you do it serially. Build in parallel and the timeline collapses.

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Replacing one manager costs 200% of their annual salary.

That isn't a typo. According to Gallup, the all-in cost of losing and replacing a leader runs roughly twice their base pay, once you account for recruiting, onboarding, lost productivity, missed institutional knowledge, and the time it takes for the replacement to reach full output.

Technical professionals: around 80% of salary.
Frontline workers: around 40%.

Turnover doesn't show up as a single line item, which is why most companies underestimate it by 5 to 10 times. It isn't an HR cost. It's a P&L event.

We build remote teams designed to retain. Long-tenure professionals, active management, and engagement built into the operating model.

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Three million Americans quit their jobs every single month.

That isn't a leftover from the Great Resignation. The most recent BLS data puts quits between 3.0 and 3.2 million monthly, and the number has held there for years.

What does that mean for your team? If you have 50 employees in the US, statistical averages suggest you'll lose around 10 to turnover this year. The hiring funnel never closes. The recruiting cycle never ends.

A dedicated remote team through Prestige OSS is built to retain. Long tenure, active management, HR and engagement handled. You hire once. You don't restart every quarter.

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Most hiring budgets get the math wrong.

They line-item the salary, the benefits, the recruiter fees. They miss what actually costs the most: the six weeks the role sits open, the six months before the new hire reaches full output, and the 42% of voluntary quits Gallup says could have been prevented.

You aren't paying for a person. You're paying for time, ramp, and risk.

We deliver dedicated remote teams in three weeks, fully onboarded, with HR and retention handled. That takes the real cost out of the equation.

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Most companies budget for the salary and forget the rest.

A $60,000 customer support hire in the US doesn't cost $60,000. Once you add employer taxes, benefits, PTO, equipment, software licenses, recruitment fees, and onboarding overhead, you're looking at roughly that figure as the average all-in.

A dedicated remote support specialist through Prestige OSS: $17,000/year, all-inclusive. HR, payroll, taxes, compliance, equipment, and management — handled.

Same caliber of work. Roughly 70% less out the door.

The math isn't about cheaper labor. It's about removing the overhead that local hiring quietly adds to every role on your team.

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44 days.

That's the US average to fill one role, according to SHRM's latest benchmarking data. Sixty-plus days for technical positions. Then another three to six months before the new hire reaches full productivity.

Most companies treat this as a fact of life. It isn't.

We deliver a fully operational remote team — recruited, onboarded, integrated — in three weeks. Not three months. Not "as soon as we find the right people." Three weeks, with HR, payroll, and compliance handled.

The expensive part of hiring isn't the salary. It's the time you spend waiting for it.

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