Jobs, as an input to production, by definition add to the cost of whatever the final good or service in question is, compared to doing the same with fewer or no employees.
Those fifty-two-inch high-definition plasma televisions that people hang on the family room wall these days cost five times what a top-of-the-line set would have cost ten years ago, but buyers are willing to shell out the extra money because the enhanced viewing quality is worth the price.