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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
If you become salaried, you are no longer scrambling to make your pennies.
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Apart from salary, there's benefits and things like workmen's comp and liability insurance to pay for, paid vacation, health insurance, etc., etc., etc.--and then you need people to administer the benefits, so you end up creating an HR department. There's a whole lot of overhead incurred, so shooting in-house is not as cheap as you might think. And yes, you can probably find cheap photographers, directors, etc., but as Sam Goldwyn said, "You pay peanuts, you get monkeys."
One very successful company I worked with went from a headcount of about a dozen to over 140 after they brought production in-house. One day the owner woke up and realized it was ridiculous, fired all his production staff, and made them interview again for spots as independent producers.