About
What Rolemote is, and who is behind the numbers
Two things under one roof: a free research library on what overseas hiring actually costs, and a flat-fee search service that will run the hire for you. This page explains how both work, and how they are kept from corrupting each other.
The two things
The research library. Roughly two hundred pages of fee data, salary bands, job description templates, interview kits and sourced statistics — free, no email required, and written to be useful even if you never hire through us. Several of those pages explain in detail how to do the hire yourself and skip us entirely, and the comparison pages name competitors who are better than us for specific situations. That is not modesty; a library that only ever concluded "hire us" would not be worth reading.
The search service. You describe a role, we source and screen against a rubric published in full, and you read three finalists — scores, structured answers, graded work samples — before any fee exists. A single flat fee falls due only when you decide you want to meet someone. The complete terms are on the deal page.
Who operates it
Rolemote is a small, independent, self-funded operation — no venture capital, no outside investors, no parent agency whose relationships we have to protect. It runs deliberately lean: the screening work that at an agency would occupy a bench of recruiters is done by software we wrote and let you run yourself, with a human reviewing every candidate before they reach an employer. We are not going to pad this page with a team roster or an office photo — what you can actually check is the rubric, the sources, and the terms, and those are all published.
That structure explains most of what is unusual here. There is no sales team, which is why there is no sales call. There is no percentage fee, which is why nobody here has a reason to talk you into a higher salary band. And there is no investor expecting a growth curve, which is why we can afford to publish a page telling you a competitor is the better choice.
How the numbers are made
Four rules govern everything published here.
1. Primary sources first. Fees, salary ranges and guarantee terms come from the named company's own published pages wherever they exist, with the date we checked. Where a company publishes nothing — which is most of this category — we say that instead of estimating a number and letting it read as fact.
2. Every figure carries its provenance. Listed means we read it on their page. Reported means a named third party published it. Derived means we calculated it from a stated input, with the arithmetic shown so you can check it. Measured means we collected it ourselves — for example, the sitemap census of eight competitors on the statistics pages, which is original data.
3. Verdicts before monetization. Recommendations are written before any referral relationship is considered, and several services we recommend for specific situations pay us nothing at all. The full detail is on the disclosure page.
4. Nothing about customers we do not have. No logos, no placement counts, no "trusted by," no invented testimonials, no review-site badges. This constraint costs us conversions and we are keeping it, because on a site whose entire argument is that the numbers are honest, one fabricated proof point would invalidate all of them.
Where the writing comes from
Research pages and articles are drafted with AI assistance and checked against source documents before publication, with automated gates that reject a draft containing an unsourced figure, a claim about clients we do not have, or a salary number that contradicts our own catalog. We mention this because plenty of sites do the same thing and do not say so — and because it is the honest answer to "how does a small team publish this much." What is never automated: the decision to recommend or not recommend a named company, and the approval of any candidate before they reach an employer.
Corrections
Numbers move. Agencies change their pricing, salary bands drift, and we get things wrong. If you find an error — especially about your own company's fees — write to hello@rolemote.com and we will fix it and date the change. We would genuinely rather correct an error than defend one, and a correction has never yet cost us anything we valued more than being right.
Figures on this site carry the date they were last verified, and those dates differ because the sources do. The salary catalog was re-fetched from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the OnlineJobs.ph guide in August 2026; competitor pricing and terms were last checked against each company's own pages in July 2026; the statistics library carries its own date on every page. Where a figure is our own estimate rather than a fetched one, it says so next to the number. Pricing and terms for our own service are on the deal page; what we promise the people we place is on candidate protection; how we make money is on the disclosure page.