Salary guides
What every role costs, by country
The category publishes one gated PDF and calls it a salary guide. Here is the whole grid instead: every role, every country we source from, with the US comparison and the arithmetic shown.
Ranges checked November 2026.
Executive assistant — $800–$1,400/mo baseline
Calendar and inbox ownership, travel, research briefs, meeting notes, and chasing the follow-ups nobody else remembers.
Operations manager — $1,000–$1,800/mo baseline
Process documentation, vendor and supplier coordination, order and fulfilment oversight, reporting, and increasingly running the AI tools the business depends on.
Bookkeeper — $800–$1,500/mo baseline
Monthly close, bank and processor reconciliation, AP and AR, expense categorisation, and clean books in QuickBooks or Xero.
Customer support specialist — $800–$1,300/mo baseline
Owning a support inbox end to end: email and chat tickets, order issues, refunds, chargebacks, escalations and help-centre upkeep.
Content marketer — $850–$1,550/mo baseline
SEO articles, newsletters, social posts and repurposing — research-grounded writing that reads like a person wrote it.
Bookkeeping assistant — $600–$1,000/mo baseline
Transaction categorisation, receipt chasing, invoice entry and reconciliation support under a senior bookkeeper or accountant.
Virtual assistant — $700–$1,150/mo baseline
The general-purpose support role: inbox, scheduling, data entry, research, order processing, and whatever else keeps a small business moving.
E-commerce manager — $850–$1,450/mo baseline
Storefront merchandising, listings and pricing, promotions, inventory coordination, and the reporting behind all of it.
Junior developer — $1,500–$2,800/mo baseline
Shipping features under review in JavaScript/TypeScript or Python: APIs, integrations, bug fixes and tests.
Sales development rep — $800–$1,350/mo baseline
Outbound prospecting, list building, sequence writing, qualifying inbound, and booking meetings for a closer.
Graphic designer — $850–$1,600/mo baseline
Production design across social, ads, email, packaging and web — working inside an existing brand system at volume.
Video editor — $900–$1,600/mo baseline
Cutting long-form to short, subtitles, thumbnails, pacing and delivery on a repeatable weekly schedule.
Copywriter — $1,250–$2,200/mo baseline
Sales pages, email sequences, ads and product copy — written to a brief, revised against performance data rather than opinion.
SEO specialist — $950–$1,750/mo baseline
Keyword and intent research, on-page fixes, internal linking, technical audits, and content briefs the writers actually work from.
PPC specialist — $1,500–$2,550/mo baseline
Building and running paid search and paid social — campaign structure, keyword and audience targeting, ad copy, budget pacing and weekly reporting against cost per acquisition.
Social media manager — $800–$1,450/mo baseline
Planning and shipping the content calendar across your channels, writing captions, scheduling, replying to comments and DMs, and reporting what actually landed.
WordPress developer — $1,000–$1,700/mo baseline
Building and maintaining WordPress sites — themes, plugins, page builders, performance, security updates and the fixes that follow a launch.
Shopify developer — $800–$1,350/mo baseline
Theme customisation, Liquid templates, app integration, checkout and product-page work, and the speed fixes that decide whether a store converts on mobile.
Accountant — $1,000–$1,700/mo baseline
Beyond bookkeeping: month-end close, management accounts, accruals and prepayments, cash-flow forecasting, and preparing the pack your CPA or tax preparer works from.
Project manager — $1,150–$2,000/mo baseline
Owning scope, sequence and delivery dates across a team — running standups, keeping the board honest, chasing blockers, and telling you early when a date is going to slip.
Lead generation specialist — $750–$1,250/mo baseline
Building targeted prospect lists, verifying contact data, enriching records, and running the first-touch sequences that hand qualified replies to a closer.
Real estate virtual assistant — $950–$1,650/mo baseline
Listing coordination and data entry into the MLS and CRM, transaction paperwork chasing, appointment scheduling, lead follow-up, and keeping the pipeline current.
Data entry specialist — $600–$1,000/mo baseline
High-volume, high-accuracy entry and migration between systems, cleaning and de-duplicating records, and formatting to a spec.
Web designer — $900–$1,600/mo baseline
Designing pages and interfaces — layout, type, hierarchy and responsive behaviour — usually in Figma, handed over in a state a developer can actually build.