This is the #1 question! First and foremost, the annual salary of a full-time senior-level designer now exceeds $100,000, plus health & retirement benefits. Aside from all that, you may not always have enough work to keep them busy at all times, so you’re stuck paying for time you aren’t able to utilize. Although some members like the accessibility of having high-level, fast and consistent design work even if they don’t utilize it every day.

With the monthly membership, you can pause and resume your subscription as often as you need.