Staffing Cost Comparison

Remote vs. Local Hiring Calculator

Hiring locally means paying market salaries plus a heavy burden of taxes, benefits, and turnover. Dedicated remote professionals deliver the same work at a fraction of the cost. See exactly how much you save by outsourcing your roles to a managed remote team.

How much could I save by hiring remote instead of local?

Hiring locally means paying market salaries plus a heavy burden of taxes, benefits, and turnover. Dedicated remote professionals deliver the same work at a fraction of the cost. Here is where the savings add up.

Salary

Local market rates for admin, accounting, and customer service roles often run $45,000 to $65,000. Dedicated remote professionals deliver the same work for $25,000 to $35,000.

Benefits

Local hires need health, dental, and retirement benefits. Managed remote staff come fully covered by their provider, so you avoid that cost.

Payroll Taxes

Employer taxes add roughly 11 percent on top of local salaries. Remote managed staff carry a lower burden, typically 8 to 12 percent.

Workers' Comp

Office roles carry low workers' comp rates, but remote staff eliminate the exposure entirely for the roles you outsource.

Turnover

Local turnover runs 20 percent or more in admin roles. Managed remote providers handle recruiting and backfilling, cutting your turnover cost to roughly a quarter of local.

Administrative Costs

Local hires need equipment, desk space, and software. Remote staff come equipped and managed, so your overhead stays low.

HR

Every local hire adds onboarding, benefits enrollment, and compliance work for your HR team. Remote staff are managed by the provider, not you.

Recruiting

Hiring locally means job postings, interviews, and background checks. A managed remote provider sources, vets, and places talent for you.

Admin, accounting, customer service, scheduling, or support roles you need to staff.

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Fully loaded local market rate for the role in your area.

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Typical fully managed remote professional rate. Dedicated bilingual staff commonly run $25,000 to $35,000 per year.

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Taxes, benefits, workers' comp, and insurance on top of salary. The national average is 30 percent.

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Lower burden for managed remote staff. Typically 8 to 12 percent.

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Percentage of these positions you replace each year.

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Recruiting, onboarding, training, and lost productivity per new hire.

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Enter your positions and salary details to compare the full cost of hiring locally against a managed remote team.

How this works

This calculator totals your local cost (salary plus employer burden for taxes, benefits, and insurance, plus turnover cost at your replacement rate) and compares it to a managed remote team (lower salary, lower burden, and roughly one quarter the turnover cost since the provider handles recruiting and backfilling). The difference is your annual savings.

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