I ran a GIS chop shop for a while. We found outsourcing digitization was a waste of time/ money. We paid very competitively for competent digitzers. And no ours

I ran a GIS chop shop for a while. We found outsourcing digitization was a waste of time/ money. We paid very competitively for competent digitzers. And no ours were not contractors. Full time if they wanted it, plus good enough benefits. More demand that we could handle so it wasnt an issue.