In my experience the focus is often on the budget and the potential employee but one overpriced employee can demotivate everyone doing the same work for [far] l

In my experience the focus is often on the budget and the potential employee but one overpriced employee can demotivate everyone doing the same work for [far] less. I think my current employer lost 50+ people worth of productivity by hiring a single lazy guy for 150%. The team spirit just evaporated then the effect propagated to other locations. (what theptip said below)