Why Your 4th Team Member Kills Your Agency’s Profit Margins.
Nobody talks about the $2,388.
Not the job boards. Not the agency growth podcasts. Not the founder threads on Reddit where everyone’s sharing their “0 to $30k/month” stories.
But that number, $2,388, is what one new team member adds to your tool bill every single year. Just from one tool. Before they’ve scheduled a single post, written a single caption, or sent a single client report.
And if you’re running a social media agency and you just hired, or you’re about to hire your 4th person? That number is already eating your margins. You just haven’t seen it show up yet.
At SocialPilot, we’ve watched agencies hit this exact wall more times than we can count. The salary gets blamed. The hire gets second-guessed. The tool bill never comes up.
You made the right call hiring. The instinct was cor...
