What Would It Cost to Build Your Own U.S. Operation?

This is a planning illustration, not a quote or a statistic. The figures are round planning numbers for a mid-market U.S. operation, and your own costs will differ by state, sector and salary level. Nothing here is an official published benchmark.

• Role costs are annual base costs per person: sales or business development $90,000 each, customer service and order management $45,000, logistics and operations coordination $65,000, local management $120,000.
• Employer payroll costs and benefits are added at 22.5% of the role costs you select. That rate is derived from the planning table this tool follows, which carries roughly $45,000 of employer burden against $200,000 of salaries. It covers payroll taxes, benefits and insurance, and it is applied once — the overhead lines below do not repeat it.
• Overheads are annual: office or flexible workspace $15,000, CRM / IT / communications $10,000, travel and customer visits $20,000, recruiting and training $10,000. Accounting and administration ($10,000) and insurance ($5,000) are shown as two toggles because the source table combines them into a single $15,000 line; selecting both reproduces that figure.
• Warehousing and fulfillment is never given a number. It depends on volume, storage days and handling, so it is listed as volume-dependent and excluded from the total. It is a real cost, not a free one.
• Local management is offered as an option and is not part of the baseline selection.