/calculators/in-house$63 a month at the median package of 64 matching editors, 5% fee included. Middle half of the market: $756 – $907.20 a year.
Type the fully-loaded annual cost of one editor in your market. The comparison, break-even volume and the in-house line on the chart appear as soon as you do.
Marketplace cost: median published package price for your filters, times volume, through the checkout fee calculation, times twelve. Capacity: each editor's stated concurrent orders × 30 days ÷ their single-cut delivery days — a full-load ceiling, so a real in-house editor with meetings and admin will turn fewer. Neither side counts your own time: briefing and reviewing here, managing and hiring in-house.
How the number is made.
Every figure on this page is computed from the live roster and the order records, and the result above is the same arithmetic the server ran for this link.
Median package price for your filters × videos per month, through the checkout fee calculation, × 12.
Videos per month ÷ one editor's measured full-load capacity, rounded up to whole hires.
Your salary figure × hires against the marketplace total, and the monthly volume where one hire costs less.
What we measured, and what we would not.
A figure we cannot measure cleanly is withheld and the calculator asks you instead. A guess presented as data would make every result below it wrong.
Run the other numbers.
What does a batch of edits cost here?
How many views before an edit pays for itself?
Can my videos be done by the deadline?
Where we are the wrong choice, too.
Better here on 4 of 9 · even on 1 · better with in-house editor on 4
Better here on 4 of 8 · even on 1 · better with production agency on 3
Better here on 3 of 8 · even on 2 · better with general freelance marketplace on 3
Better here on 3 of 7 · even on 0 · better with editing it yourself on 4
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