Cost Catalog

Bring clarity and precision to global delivery costs

Make smarter optimization, sourcing, and pricing decisions with market-backed cost intelligence.

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Cost Catalog

Most organizations are making cost, sourcing, and pricing decisions without a consistent view of delivery costs.

Internal models, salary benchmarks, and one-off analyses often miss the full picture. As a result, leaders face blind spots in cost optimization, inconsistent decisions, and limited confidence in negotiations.

Cost Catalog changes that.

It provides a detailed view of fully loaded delivery costs across roles, locations, and services, helping organizations make more accurate, expert-vetted, and strategic decisions.

Why it matters

Organizations today are navigating increasing cost pressure, talent volatility, and shifting delivery models. At the same time, expectations for transparency, speed, and financial accountability continue to rise.

Without a clear understanding of true delivery costs:

  • Limited cost visibility leads to missed savings opportunities
  • Negotiations lack a strong data foundation
  • High-level benchmarks miss the most actionable cost levers
  • Lack of cost clarity leads to both underpricing and overpricing
  • Margin erosion impacts profitability and reinvestment

Cost Catalog brings clarity to these decisions by grounding them in real market data.

What Cost Catalog delivers

A comprehensive, market-based view of delivery cost.

Cost Catalog provides granular cost intelligence across global delivery, including:

  • 600+ roles across 60+ locations
  • Cuts across service lines including IT applications, IT infrastructure, and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services
  • Fully loaded costs, including both people and non-people components

This enables a consistent, apples-to-apples understanding of what delivery should cost across your organization.

Who it’s for and what it enables

For service providers

Reduce costs, align cost to price, and protect margins

  • Identify cost optimization opportunities across roles and locations
  • Understand your true cost position relative to the market
  • Improve pricing accuracy and competitiveness in deals
  • Strengthen margin performance and commercial discipline

Outcome: Lower operating costs, more competitive bids, improved cost-to-price alignment, and stronger margin control

For enterprises and GCCs

Gain transparency, control costs, and sharpen sourcing decisions

  • Bring transparency and control to your cost structure
  • Identify where you are over- or under-spending relative to the market
  • Optimize sourcing strategies and delivery footprint decisions
  • Strengthen vendor negotiations with a fact-based view of delivery economics
  • Build more defensible business cases and cost strategies

Outcome: Lower operating costs, better sourcing outcomes, and a more efficient global delivery model

Key capabilities of Cost Catalog

Built for real-world decisions

  • Pinpoint cost gaps

    Identify exactly where your costs differ from market benchmarks and why

  • Understand full delivery cost

    Move beyond salary benchmarks with a fully loaded cost view

  • Standardize decision-making

    Apply consistent cost logic across services, teams, and geographies

  • Stay aligned with the market

    Benefit from regular updates that reflect wage and location shifts

  • Turn insight into action

    Leverage analyst support, workshops, and briefings to apply insights in live decisions

How it drives impact

Even small improvements in cost or pricing decisions can translate into meaningful multi-million-dollar cost savings.

With Cost Catalog, organizations can:

  • Focus on the highest-impact cost levers
  • Improve negotiation outcomes with data-backed insights
  • Make faster, more confident sourcing and pricing decisions
  • Drive sustained cost efficiency over time

Why Everest Group

Cost Catalog goes beyond high-level benchmarks and delivers detailed cost insights you can use for optimization decisions.

It combines granular, role- and location-level data with a fully loaded view of delivery cost, so you understand the true economics behind your operations, not just salaries or broad averages. 

The data is regularly refreshed to reflect changing market conditions and is designed to be reused across teams, supporting consistent decisions across sourcing, pricing, and strategy.

And when paired with Everest Group’s Price Catalog, it provides a more complete view of cost-to-price alignment, helping you move from insight to action with confidence. 

Bring clarity to your cost decisions

Understand what delivery should cost and act with confidence across sourcing, pricing, and strategy.

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