Is $800 a Month Too Much To Pay For An Outsourcer?

If you have get a lot of work weekly and profit I think it's good.

If you're not getting a lot of work weekly won't you be paying him for nothing?

No offence to brothers sisters from phillipines yo. But I usually take them at $400-$600. $800 is a lil on the high end.

Yea, way too high in my experience. I mean, unless he's the ultimate best worker you've ever encountered in life, I'd say you're paying him above his range.

If you're getting enough work for him to be profitable, great. If he does a great job, and follows your instructions, excellent. Pay him what he's worth, and bonus him too to keep him loyal.

That said, I've had more problems than not with Filipino outsourcing. Most of them are incredibly sweet/nice... but I have found that especially after a while their work ethic is questionable, meaning they do the bare minimum needed, or will sometimes lie to save face... and also they will proceed with tasks they claim to understand while not actually understanding... because they don't want to be rude/annoying. It's a cultural thing.

I'm not saying don't use them. As with anything else, you get lucky and find good people anywhere... I'm just saying... keep that in mind, and be prepared to have to replace him.

Appreciate the responses.

I have considered reducing his wages, but unless I really cut them down, say by half, the savings wouldn't justify the harsh reality.

The only option would be to find someone else, but I wouldn't really want to. This basically just forces me to find more clients to make up the costs. So perhaps its a good thing, keeps me motivated >_>

How many websites can he do in a month? A week? If he can do 2 a week that's 8 sites a month, $100 per site. If your charging $750-1000, that isn't bad, at all. Especially, if he has already proven his worth. Don't be too quick to drop an outsourcer if they do good work. Are you paying him too much? possibly. But if you drop him and get a cheaper one whose works sucks, that will cost you more in the long run.

Hey Payoman,

I'll share with you the way I've evolved to look at higher-than-market value outsourcers.

For me it comes down to one central question...

"Are the tasks they're doing directly generating income or are they playing a supporting role in my business?"

I've hired a ton of outsourcers over the years and the mistake I've made up until recently was that I paid too much for support role employees.

Why in the world would I pay almost $10,000 a year to a contractor who doesn't directly contribute to my bottom line in a measurable way?

Forget about finding work for them to do!

If you're paying those type of rates, you should have a blueprint for them to follow that generates at least two to three times what you're paying that contractor each and every month like clockwork.

Otherwise, it will not last because one day you'll wake up and realize you're eating into your profits by trying to find work for this employee and it's not even improving your bottom line.

Now, without knowing how this outsourcer impacts your cash flow, I can just guess and speculate that he's probably just a support role employee.

Especially, if you're saying that he only modifies existing theme's.

And unless you're running a wordpress theme optimization service (just made that up) or a graphic design firm, you can get that type of person on odesk or other sites on a as-needed basis for a heck of alot less than $200 a week.

At least that's been my experience.

Hope that helps,

Chris

Seems a lot to me, the best answer is "it depends" I guess.

That is a fat stack of cash you are paying for what you are getting in return. I suggest posting a job on odesk or others. Explain in detail the job and ask for bids. The middle of the road should be your target.

depends on how much work you have him to do. If have lot of , I think $800 a month is ok.