A contractor in ATI costs us about $100,000 a year. I can hire a PM-2 and grade them up to PM-5 over a period of years, keep the expertise in-house, and develop the specialty in-house. It's hard to say the difference between one and the other, because the contract is very finite. I may have an employee who I recruit at PM-2 and keep him over three years before he reaches the cost of a contract.
On June 3rd, 2009. See this statement in context.