system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is there a term in Economics for something which has an east to measure cost but difficult to measure benefit?

EDIT: Always spot typos after submitting, I mean "easy to measure cost"

This seems like something there would be a term for.

An example would be someone who is employed purely in a support role, their cost can be easily measured in terms of their salary but it difficult to quantify how much indirect benefit they provide. I've heard this kind of role described as overhead but that doesn't seem to cover the ease or otherwise of measuring benefit.
gpt
For nearly everything it's easier to measure the cost than the benefit. 
Consider the adage "the value is not the price" as critical. 

It's incredibly important in questions like this to be as deliberate and clear as possible in your word choices. Benefit is broad and ambiguous.

If you are discussing this in the context of a firm, you most likely did not mean benefits, but rather revenues. Revenues are a specific form of benefit and are distinctly more measurable than teamwork, watercooler jokes, and morning doughnuts. 

The field of transfer pricing analysis studies the contributions to revenues along the supply chain.