Paying people is the easiest part of working with a virtual assistant.

There are so many options. You can pay through

• Paypal
• Wise.com
• Western Union, or
• our favorite, Easypay at OnlineJobs.ph (www.OnlineJobs.ph/easypay).

You can use whatever works for you; no need to worry about things on the virtual assistant side. Any of these services will take care of that for you.

You can also read more about paying your virtual assistant.

In the Philippines, a college degree is a prerequisite in order to get a job. That’s why a majority of Virtual Assistants are college-educated.

This chart shows the type of workers we have on our database, which gives us a general idea of who’s available for hire and how much you can offer as a starting salary.

When hiring a Filipino worker, you’ll have the best chance of hiring someone inexperienced to someone with intermediate skills. So the starting salary you should offer would be in the beginner and intermediate range.

If you’re looking for highly skilled and experienced workers (who tend to skew older), they’re more likely to be already working. The starting salary would have to be in the expert range to entice them to work for you.

It depends on what you can afford, your Filipino VA’s job performance, and your agreement with them (if any).

For example, once a year, we give a $25-$100 raise per month, equivalent to $0.25 – $1 raise per hour. My team doesn’t know how much they will get, but they know that the raise depends on their workout for the year.

But we recommend that you give your VA a raise if they have been working for you for at least a year. You can give a raise sooner if you can afford it and if they’re doing really well.

To make it easier for you to formulate a rating of your own for your future VA’s, or if a raise is long overdue, we also have a chart on the cost of living in the Philippines. This includes the utilities that they need to fully function in the virtual assistant world.

Again, the chart only includes the basic utilities. Please keep in mind that there are other costs one requires in order to live, like clothes, mobile devices, and anything that allows them to go about their actual lives.

With new hires, we strongly recommend that you pay weekly, at least for the first couple of months. This helps establish trust and helps your VA get on their feet.

After that, you can pay them twice a month or monthly, depending on your arrangement with them.