Cost calculator
What a hire actually costs
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What a local hire costs, and what a WeAssist Outsourced Professional costs
Fully loaded on both sides, using a US executive assistant as the benchmark.
US-based Outsourced Professional
- Base salary
- $58,000
- Health and benefits
- $9,300
- Payroll taxes
- $4,900
- Recruiting and onboarding
- $3,000
- Equipment and software
- $1,500
Year one, all in
about $77,000
Outsourced Professional through WeAssist
- Recruiting and vetting
- Included
- Monthly all-in rate
- One flat fee
- Benefits, payroll and HR
- Handled by WeAssist
- Equipment, security and weekly AI training
- Included
- After month 6
- Hire them directly, no buyout fee
Year one, all in
$30,000 to $36,000
$41,000 to $47,000
kept in year one versus a US hire
You keep about $41,000 to $47,000 in year one per Outsourced Professional, and more from year two, when the only cost is the person's salary.
Local figures are estimates from public US salary data for the role, with benefits, payroll taxes, recruiting and equipment added. Your market will differ.
How much would you save with a WeAssist Outsourced Professional?
Drag to the monthly salary of the US Outsourced Professional you have now, or the one you are about to hire. Salary only, before benefits and taxes.
You save with a WeAssist Outsourced Professional$43,800a year, $3,650 a month
That salary times 12, against year one of a WeAssist Outsourced Professional with recruiting, benefits, equipment and training included. An estimate, not a quote.
From the founder
“It doesn't make sense anymore for you to be doing all those things. You're wasting money.”
$41k+
kept in year one
No buyout
after six months
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Most of our hires stay 2.5+ years
Side by side with a typical virtual assistant and a typical agency.
| Feature | Typical VAs | Offshore agencies | WeAssist |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commitment | Task by task | Shared or rotating | One full-time person, hired for your business |
| Selection | You screen | Pooled bench | Fewer than 2% of applicants accepted |
| AI training | Not included | Not included | Weekly live training in automation, prompt engineering and workflow optimisation |
| Onboarding | Yours to run | Generic | Expectations, communication rhythm, tools and 30-day milestones |
| Ongoing support | Self-managed | Account manager | Scheduled check-ins and optimisation support |
| If it is not working | Start again | Request a swap | 30-day rematch guarantee |
| After 6 months | Keep paying per task | Keep paying the markup | Hire your OP directly, no buyout fee. We are out of your hair. |
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