For US and Singapore teams that just raised
airteams sources, interviews and reference-checks full-time remote specialists in the Philippines, Latin America and South Africa. One flat fee, paid once. You contract your hire directly — we never touch their salary.
Takes two minutes. No call required to get a salary band back.
The arithmetic
Pick the seat you're trying to fill. The US figure is yours to change — put in the offer you'd actually have to make.
Hiring in the US
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Hiring through airteams
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Year one, you keep — — and every year after that the gap widens, because our fee doesn't come round again.
Offshore salary shown is the midpoint of the band this role usually lands in; the exact number depends on the region and the seniority you need. US loading of 25% covers employer taxes, insurance and benefits. Agency comparison uses the 20% of first-year salary that US contingency recruiters typically charge.
How it works
Fresh funding buys speed, and hiring is usually where it goes to die. This is built to be the fastest part of your quarter.
Thirty minutes. We agree what the person will own, the salary band it takes to hire them, and which region fits the hours you need covered. If your budget and your spec don't match the market, you hear it on that call rather than six weeks later.
Sourced, screened, interviewed by us, tested on a task that mirrors the job and reference-checked with a former manager. Each arrives with a written note on where they're strong and where they aren't. We book your interviews.
You contract and pay your hire yourself, as a contractor or through the payroll platform you already use. No markup, no monthly fee, nobody standing between them and their salary. Not working out inside 90 days? We run it again, free.
Pricing
You can budget for this before you ever speak to us. Most of the market makes you book a call to find out.
| Band | Their monthly salary | Our fee |
|---|---|---|
| Support & adminExecutive and operations assistants, customer support, coordinators | $700 – 1,500 | $5,000 |
| SpecialistBookkeeping, reporting and data, technical support, CRM and GTM operations | $1,500 – 3,000 | $7,500 |
| Senior specialistDevelopers, senior editors, certified accountants | $3,000 – 5,000 | $10,000 |
Charged once the role is scoped, credited in full against the fee, refunded if we don't deliver. Waived on every hire after your first.
No markup on their salary, no management fee, no percentage. You pay once and the relationship is yours.
If the person doesn't work out in the first 90 days, we run the search again at no charge.
The standard model charges 20–25% of your hire's first-year salary. That quietly pays your recruiter more the more your hire costs, which is a strange thing to want from the person advising you on the band. Our number doesn't move. The candidate you get is the one who fits the seat, not the one who lifts the invoice — and you know the total before we start.
Roles
These are the roles remote hiring is genuinely good at: clear ownership, work you can see. We fill them well because we don't try to fill everything.
Need one of these? Say so on the first call and we'll point you at someone who does it properly.
Where the talent comes from
Not every seat needs someone awake when you are. We pick the market from what the role actually requires, and tell you what each one costs before you commit.
Two decades of remote work for Western companies and the largest pool of the three. Best for seats that run overnight against your day, or don't need live contact.
Roughly a third more expensive than the Philippines for the same role, and worth it any time the job means talking to your customers or your team in real time.
The strongest English of the three and famously low turnover. Covers a European day completely and reaches US mornings — the usual answer for Singapore and EU-facing teams.
Our commitment
Three candidates within ten working days of agreeing the role. If none of them reaches a second interview with you, the spec and the budget didn't match what the market bears — and we should have caught that on the scoping call. We re-scope it with you, or we stop and refund the $500.
It's a short leash on purpose. It keeps us honest about which searches we take, and it means you never have a seat sitting open for a month waiting on a recruiter who has gone quiet.
Questions
Between $700 and $5,000 a month depending on role and region, paid by you directly to them. Support and admin seats usually land between $700 and $1,500; specialists between $1,500 and $3,000. You get a realistic band on the scoping call, before you commit to anything.
Fair question, and the honest answer is that we've made it cheap to find out. The only money at stake before you've seen anyone is $500, and that comes back if the three we send don't earn a second interview. We publish the fee, the turnaround and the exact list of roles we won't take, which is more than most of the market will put in writing. Judge us on the shortlist.
Some are genuinely cheaper, and if the flat fee is the deciding number you should use them. What you're paying us for is the ten-day clock, a shortlist of three rather than a CV dump, and a scoping call that tells you when your budget won't buy your spec. Against the year-one cost of the same seat filled in the US, the fee is a rounding error either way.
You do. Most clients engage people as full-time contractors; some run them through a payroll platform they already use. We're not an employer of record and we take no cut of anyone's salary — which is exactly why there's no monthly fee.
Every shortlisted candidate has been interviewed by us, tested against a task that mirrors the actual job, and reference-checked with a previous manager. You get a written summary of where each one is strong and where they aren't.
Tell us within 90 days and we run the search again at no cost.
Yes. Candidates are briefed on the working hours before they ever reach your shortlist, so nobody accepts a schedule they can't keep. Which region we search depends on how much live overlap the role needs.
No. We fill defined seats under $5,000 a month with no direct reports. It's a narrow promise, and it's the reason the ten-day turnaround holds.
Same week. The ten working days start the moment we've agreed the scope.
Start here
Two minutes, three short steps. You'll get back the salary band it takes to hire this seat well — and an honest answer on whether we're the right people for it — before you spend anything.