Statistics
WordPress developer salary statistics — offshore vs US (2026)
What WordPress developers earn across the five countries we track, derived from the sourced research behind our salary guides — same data, one role, aggregated. Checked July 2026.
FIGURES CHECKED JULY 2026 · EVERY NUMBER LABELED: LISTED / REPORTED / SELF-REPORTED / ESTIMATE / MEASURED / LAW · HOW TO READ THE LABELS
The headline numbers
$1,000–$1,700/mo
The Philippine monthly band for a full-time WordPress developer — the baseline every other country adjusts from.
derived Rolemote salary bands, compiled from sourced advertised ranges
$5,350–$10,500/mo
The comparable US hire for the same role — the number the offshore band is saving against.
derived Compiled US advertised ranges (see /costs/overseas-salaries)
~83%
Saving versus the US mid-point when hiring in the Philippines — before any agency fee.
derived Computed from the two bands above
$3,000–$7,150
What a standard 25–35% first-year-salary recruiting fee works out to on this band. Our flat fee is $1,995 regardless of salary, due only at introductions.
derived Provider pricing pages; arithmetic shown
By country
Each band is the Philippine baseline scaled by a stated country factor — the same arithmetic as our salary guides, so you can check it.
| Country | Factor | Monthly band |
|---|---|---|
| Philippines | ×1 | $1,000–$1,700 |
| Colombia | ×1.25 | $1,250–$2,150 |
| Mexico | ×1.3 | $1,300–$2,200 |
| South Africa | ×1.15 | $1,150–$1,950 |
| Argentina | ×1.1 | $1,100–$1,850 |
What drives the rate
Building and maintaining WordPress sites — themes, plugins, page builders, performance, security updates and the fixes that follow a launch. What separates a strong hire from an adequate one: They read the existing theme before touching it and leave changes that survive the next update — child themes, not edits to core files. The cheap kind hardcodes a fix that the next plugin update silently destroys. AI-durability of the role: medium — parts of the workflow are automating; the judgment layer is not. Medium. Boilerplate and snippets compress; debugging somebody else's plugin conflict on a live site does not.
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Rolemote, "WordPress developer salary statistics — offshore vs US (2026)" (checked July 2026). https://rolemote.com/statistics/wordpress-developer-salary-statistics
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