US$9
per hour, all in
One simple rate for a dedicated, full-time, fully managed team member — from US$9/hour. No placement fee, no hidden extras, no surprises.
What US$9/hour includes
Your rate covers a dedicated, full-time team member plus everything it takes to employ and manage them: recruitment, contracts, payroll, HR, benefits, equipment and Hubstaff time tracking. There is no separate placement or recruitment fee — ever.
Compared with a US hire at $22–35/hour plus benefits, payroll taxes and office overhead, a dedicated VA typically saves 70–80% while covering your exact time zone.
The zero-risk promise
- No placement fee, ever — you pay the hourly rate once they start, nothing to place them.
- First-week money-back guarantee — if it isn't working by day five, your first week is refunded.
- Free replacement guarantee — not the right fit? We rematch at no additional cost.
- Three-month minimum term, then month to month — long enough to give your team member a fair run at the role, short enough that we keep earning it.
What the alternatives really cost
US$9 an hour only means something next to what you'd otherwise pay. There are four ways American businesses get this work done, and they price very differently once you account for what each one actually includes.
- A US employee. Salary is the start. Add the employer share of FICA, unemployment insurance, workers compensation, health benefits, paid time off and a recruiter fee that's commonly a percentage of first-year salary. The loaded cost typically runs well above the advertised number — often by a quarter to a third.
- An US-based VA agency. Convenient and expensive, generally billed at several times our rate. You are paying American wages plus the agency's margin, and the person is frequently shared across accounts.
- A freelance marketplace. Cheapest on paper. You carry the sourcing, vetting, payment rails, time-tracking disputes, confidentiality risk and the replacement when they vanish. The rate is low because the work has been shifted to you.
- A managed offshore partner. One rate, one invoice, dedicated to you, with the employment and the replacement risk carried by the provider. That's us.
Ranges here are indicative and vary by role, state and industry — run your own numbers before you decide anything. The point isn't the exact figure; it's that the two cheap-looking options move cost rather than remove it.
Why it isn't cheaper than US$9
We could quote less. Providers at US$5 to US$7 exist, and the arithmetic on how they get there is not complicated: it comes out of the person doing your work, in wage, in benefits, or in how many clients they're split across.
Our rate covers a properly paid team member, their leave and cover, equipment and connectivity, an HR team behind them, recruitment and replacement, and the night-shift loading that makes your business hours possible. Strip any of those out and you get a lower number and a placement that lasts nine months instead of three years.
Since replacement is the single largest hidden cost in offshore staffing, paying properly is the cheaper strategy — just not on the first invoice.
Billing, currency and terms
- Billed in USD, so there's no exchange-rate guesswork on your side.
- Weekly in advance as standard, or monthly for larger businesses with an accounts payable function — invoiced and collected automatically through our client platform.
- Three months, then month to month. No annual contract, no exit fee.
- One line item — no separate recruitment, onboarding, software or management charges.