Local Hire vs VoiceSupportCrew
Every assumption below is editable, because a comparison built on someone else's numbers is worthless. Change them to match your market and see what the difference actually is for you — including when it goes the other way.
These figures are illustrative. Salaries, workspace costs and employer contributions vary enormously by country, city and role, and the defaults below are rough mid-range placeholders rather than researched market rates. Replace them with your own numbers before drawing any conclusion.
Your assumptions
Adjust the overhead assumptions
Local Hire
VoiceSupportCrew Dedicated agents
What the comparison leaves out
A cost model that only shows savings is a sales tool, not an analysis. Three things sit outside the numbers above.
- Your onboarding time
- Someone on your side spends a few hours a week during the first month providing material and answering questions. That is real cost, and campaigns that skip it underperform.
- Knowledge proximity
- An in-house agent absorbs context passively by sitting in your office. An outsourced agent knows only what you have documented — which forces useful discipline but is genuinely extra work.
- The cost of doing nothing
- Missed calls and unanswered enquiries have a price that never appears on an invoice. If you are currently losing a share of your enquiries, the real comparison is not between these two columns at all.