Virtual Assistant
$1,500–$2,000
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Executive Assistant
$2,500–$3,500
Operations Manager
$2,500–$3,500
Account Executive
$2,500–$3,500
Full-Stack Developer
$4,000–$5,000
AI Engineer
$4,500–$6,000
+ 44 more roles inside the full guide.
Full-time salary benchmarks. Actual compensation varies by experience, location, schedule, and role requirements.
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Are they actually as good as someone I could hire in the U.S.?
Often, yes. At the same budget, they can be better.
A $2,000 salary in New York buys you a closet to live in. When hiring internationally, it might be the best opportunity they’ve ever gotten.
That’s the mistake.
I’ve lived abroad for years. My wife was working as a manager at a five-star hotel and earning roughly $800 per month.
So when you offer a talented professional $2,000, $3,000, or $4,000 per month in many of the markets we recruit from, that can be a genuinely excellent career opportunity.
You’re not buying bargain talent. You’re taking the same hiring budget into a market where that money goes dramatically further.
That changes the caliber of person you can attract: experienced professionals, strong English speakers, people who can think independently, and people who actually value the opportunity.
The real comparison isn’t “$2,000 overseas versus $2,000 in the USA.” It’s what caliber of person each budget buys in each labor market.
- See what strong candidates actually cost.
- Understand which roles make the most sense to hire remotely.
- Compare Eastern Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
- See how specialization changes salary expectations.
Real Companies. Real Hires.
This Isn’t Cheap Talent. It’s What Your Money Buys in a Different Labor Market.
The point isn’t to find the cheapest person on the internet. It’s to use geography to get dramatically more talent, experience, and initiative for the same hiring budget.
$578K/yr
Estimated savings
Four Hires Across Four Departments
YC-backed Elayne hired an Executive Assistant, Operations Manager, Engineer, and Outbound Sales hire through HireUA after three other international hiring companies failed to deliver the caliber they needed.
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$250K/yr
Estimated savings
10+ Remote Developers Over Four Years
Charlie AI has hired more than a dozen middle-to-senior developers through HireUA, averaging about $3,500/month — talent they say would cost $10K–$15K/month in the USA.
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$60K/yr
Estimated savings
From “I Was Drowning” to a Hire in 9 Days
Pablo Milandu had never hired anyone before. HireUA helped him define the role, presented five qualified candidates, and he made his decision nine days after paying the deposit.
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We’ve made 1,100+ placements across 35+ countries. The ranges in this guide come from actually recruiting, interviewing, negotiating with, and placing remote talent — not scraping a generic salary website.
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Different Markets. Different Strengths.
There Is No Best Country to Hire From. There’s a Best Market for the Job.
Labor markets aren’t interchangeable. Education, language, sales culture, time zones, and local industries all shape the talent a market produces.
Tech, Ops & Finance
Best fit for higher-autonomy specialist work.Our first choice for raw capability, technical education, operations, finance, and work that requires independent judgment.
Creative, Sales & eCommerce
Strong US time-zone overlap.Particularly useful for customer-facing, revenue, creative, and eCommerce roles that benefit from closer working-hour overlap.
Support & Administration
Deep remote-work experience.Excellent value for support, administration, and repeatable process-driven roles where reliability and consistency are critical.
Specialists & Cross-Functional Talent
Including Lebanon, Egypt & Turkey.An additional talent market we recruit from when the role, language requirements, experience, and working-hour overlap make it the right fit.
The full guide breaks down the best region, typical salary, and responsibilities for 50+ positions.
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