re: What will be the going salary rate for in office employees in the next few years

We don't do it now, but I did hire Pilipino workers for a while to do some basic work for the company I work for to keep me from having one of our local employees have to do it. Very menial type stuff. I'm embarrassed to say we paid them $5/hour through Upwork. Not sure what the cut was, but it did work for us.


We use developers in India now. I get 2 full time developers for $6K/month. I expect one full time developer in the US would cost me at least $100K/year. The work gets done a little slower, but they also have shown themselves to be available nights, weekends, basically whenever I have an issue, which I think I might have trouble with in the US.