Guess what, there's no free lunch.
These job boards ARE about helping people FIND jobs (that's why job seekers can search for free - they need a job and probably don't have the money). They are not about doing an employers job for them (at leastnot for free). They are providing a service to employers (who have the money). Very few business services these days are free. Something has to provide revenue for the the people running these job boards. Advertising doesn't take care of it all. Therefore they charge the people most likely to have the money (the employers)
You need to look at more than just costs. What other options are available?
You could create your own web page and post your job openings there. But what type of visibility will those job postings get? If people don't know about your company, they aren't going to go to your website looking for available jobs.
You could try the local newspapers. Is this a job that you can fill easily locally? Probably not if you considered posting to one of the job boards.
If the newspaper is distributed nationally, you can bet the prices the newspaper will charge you for the ad will not be inexpensive. Not sure what the Las Vegas Review-Journal would charge you. The LA Times charges $790 for a SINGLE 10 line ad in a SINGLE Sundays Career Builders Section, and 2 weeks posting on their online job site. Now consider posting in multiple newspapers (assuming this isn't a job that can be filled locally or quickly). Your costs for the "traditional approach" could get outrageous.
You could hire a headhunter service to both search for candidates and screen applicants. Don't expect this service to be cheap.
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