Statistics
Offshore hiring statistics (2026)
The offshore-recruiting category's real numbers — fees, scale, funnels — collected from provider sites, press, and our own measurement. Checked July 2026; every figure carries its source and a label saying how much to trust it.
FIGURES CHECKED JULY 2026 · EVERY NUMBER LABELED: LISTED / REPORTED / SELF-REPORTED / ESTIMATE / MEASURED / LAW · HOW TO READ THE LABELS
The market
$40B
2025 revenue of the Philippine BPO industry, employing roughly 1.9 million people — the deepest support and admin talent pool in the world.
reported IBPAP 2025 figures via Manila Times / Philstar (Jan 2026)
25–35%
The standard offshore-recruiting fee: a quarter to a third of the hire's first-year salary, paid once per placement.
listed Provider pricing pages (Somewhere, Genius and peers)
6 months
A common replacement-guarantee window — agencies range from 90 days to 6 months; if the hire leaves inside it, they rerun the search free.
listed Guarantee terms across major provider sites
Category scale
11,000+
Placements claimed by Somewhere.com, the category leader, across 5,000+ client companies.
listed somewhere.com
$52M
The valuation at which Somewhere's founder sold control in May 2024 — the category's benchmark exit.
reported Multiple press accounts that reconcile
~$15M ARR
Oceans' reported revenue run-rate — the strongest of the newer EA-focused entrants.
reported Press coverage
~$4.2M
Paired.so's estimated annual revenue with ~25 staff.
estimate Prospeo third-party estimate
The screening funnel
The volume numbers agencies rarely put on pricing pages: the funnel is brutally wide at the top.
30–40K/mo
Applications Somewhere reports screening per month, against 250+ placements it lists in a recent month — well under a 1% placement rate.
self-reported Acquiring Minds interview; somewhere.com
1,500 → 700
What happened to Somewhere's monthly inbound leads when its founder's promotional mix changed after the sale — demand in this category tracks the owner's audience.
self-reported Acquiring Minds interview
Web presence of the major agencies — original data
We crawled the public sitemaps of the eight most-cited offshore-recruiting agencies (July 2026). Nobody else publishes this comparison. The distribution is bimodal: brochure sites under 100 URLs, SEO machines above 550 — almost nothing between.
| Agency | Sitemap URLs | Shape |
|---|---|---|
| Somewhere.com | 1,439 | SEO machine incl. 388 candidate profiles |
| Near | 842 | SEO machine incl. 160 role pages |
| Wing | 746 | SEO machine |
| Genius | 467 | SEO machine incl. 56 statistics pages |
| Oceans | 98 | Brochure-plus |
| Athyna | 95 | Brochure-plus |
| HireLATAM | 70 | Brochure |
| Paired | 36 | Brochure, no blog |
Fees, side by side
| Provider | Fee model | On a $1,200/mo hire |
|---|---|---|
| Somewhere.com | 25–35% of first-year salary | $3,600–$5,000+ |
| Genius | 25% (example floor $2,400) | $3,600 |
| HireLATAM | $3,500 flat ($500 deposit + $3,000) | $3,500 |
| Rolemote | $1,995 flat, due only at introductions | $1,995 |
Cite this page
These numbers are free to use with a link — that's the whole deal. Suggested citation:
Rolemote, "Offshore hiring statistics (2026)" (checked July 2026). https://rolemote.com/statistics/offshore-hiring-statistics
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