Financial Benefits of Design Works

By choosing Design Works, your company will benefit from the high level of expertise and experience along with a significant financial savings.  Please review the following scenario for a better understanding.

 

Your company needs Spring and Fall product lines, composed of 120 total styles, for your men's and women's sportswear categories.  You have a production department inhouse, but you don't have the staff to create a business plan for the line, garment designs, and a format to source the product with a factory.  

 

Design Works vs. Full Time Employees

Full Time Employee Sample Staff           Salary + Benefits*

Sr Product Manager - Men's

Product Manager - Women's

Sr Apparel Designer - Women's

Apparel Designer - Men's

Technical Designer - Women's

Associate Technical Designer - Men's

$100,000

$80,000

$87,000

$62,000

$67,000

$42,000
Total $438,000

Design Works will complete the job for less than half the cost of full time employees.  Services included are:

  • Trend and Color Presentation
  • Product Briefs, Line plans, and SKU Budgeting Research
  • Garment Design Presentation
  • Technical Illustrations
  • Technical Packages
  • Garment Approval Process

Additional Benefits from Design Works:

  • Substantial tax advantages
  • Greater experience: We have a wealth of experience over multiple projects and companies. To reach the same level of experience from an employee, would require many years of investment and training.
  • Increased stability: When an employee needs to take a break either through accident, illness, or family reasons; other employees have to try to pick up the slack. Design Works will provide uninterrupted service.
  • Professional attitude: Because we are unconnected to your company, we can easily maintain a professional detachment that employees find difficult to match. 
  • Greater flexibility: You won't experience any overtime costs, and we can commit more time during a project than an employee can due to our ability to take our down time between projects only.

Sources:

*Salary and Benefits are based on an annual basis:

Salary.com www.salary.com

PayScale www.payscale.com

National Coalition on Healthcare www.nchc.org

Expansion Management "Unraveling the Puzzle of Unemployment Insurance Costs" www.expansionmanagement.com

Wikipedia "Workers' Compensation" www.wikipedia.org