Virtual assistants, Philippines
You didn’t start a business to do your own admin.
Meet the person who’ll take it off you. 500+ screened candidates on our books, reference-checked and paid well enough to stay, and you can read their CVs before you speak to us.
Available this week
43 people
- L.First name available once verifiedExecutive Assistant · 4 yrs$1,050per month
- A.First name available once verifiedVirtual Assistant · 7 yrs$800per month
- C.First name available once verifiedVirtual Assistant · 10 yrs$1,050per month
- D.First name available once verifiedCustomer Support Lead · 4 yrs$950per month
- 3
- candidates shortlisted per role, not a stack of CVs
- 18 days
- average time from brief to start date
- 6 months
- free replacement if it doesn't work out
Start here
What would you hand over first?
Pick whatever you’re sick of doing. You don’t need to know what the role is called, that’s our job.
On the bench
Real people, available now
Not a roster you get assigned from. Look through them, pick who you want to meet, and interview them yourself.
Verified accounts only
Unlock every CV, name and photo
Free. A member of our team verifies every account by hand before it opens, usually one email, usually the same day.
No card, no mailing list. Already verified? Use your access link
- 18days
- Average time to a start date
- 3
- Candidates shortlisted per role
- 6months
- Free replacement guarantee
- 2-3x
- Local market rate paid to our people
How it works
Three weeks, three steps, three candidates
You spend about two hours on this in total. We spend about ninety.
- 0115 minutes
Tell us what you need off your plate
A call, or a form if you'd rather not talk. We're working out the actual job, not filling in a template. Most owners describe tasks, not roles. That's fine, that's our job to translate.
- 02About 12 days
Meet three people, not thirty
We advertise, screen and test. You get three shortlisted candidates with skills-test results, reference checks and a short intro video each. You interview whoever you want. You can reject all three and we go again.
- 03Week three
They start, and we stay
We handle the contract, the onboarding checklist and the first-week setup. Then we check in at 30, 60 and 90 days, because the hires that fail, fail in the first quarter, and almost always for reasons somebody could have fixed.
No pitch deck. We’ll tell you if you’re not ready to hire.
What it actually costs
Run the numbers on your own role
Year-one totals, with our fee included in the maths, not left out of it.
How you’d hire
First 12 months
- Hiring locally
- $50,400
- Salary via MTC
- $11,400
- Placement fee (one-time)
- $1,500
You keep
$37,500
74% less than the same role hired locally, everything in.
Local comparison figures are indicative averages for English-speaking markets. Your actual costs will differ.
Pricing
Two ways to do this
The only real question is how much of the employment side you want to handle yourself.
Direct Hire
You employ them. We find them.
one-time, per hire
Plus your VA’s salary, paid to them.
Best if you already run a team and just need the right person.
- We source, screen and shortlist 3 candidates
- Skills tests and reference checks done before you meet anyone
- You interview and choose. You can say no to all three
- Contract and onboarding templates provided
- 6-month replacement guarantee
- You pay your VA directly, at whatever you agree
- –Payroll handled by you
- –You are the manager
Managed
We employ them. You just work with them.
per month, per person. Placement fee waived
Plus your VA’s salary, paid to them.
Best if this is your first hire, or you don't want to run payroll in another country.
- Everything in Direct Hire, with no placement fee
- We employ them, run payroll and handle local compliance
- Equipment, backup internet and power sorted
- Cover arranged when they're sick or on leave
- A named account manager who checks in monthly
- Cancel with 30 days' notice, no lock-in
By trade
What this looks like in your business
The tasks worth handing over first are different for a clinic than for a plumber. Pick the closest one.
Real estate & property
Your agents should be selling, not uploading listings
Real Estate Assistant and moreAccounting & bookkeeping
Stop doing $30-an-hour work at $200-an-hour rates
Bookkeeper and moreE-commerce & retail
Someone to answer customers while you sleep
Customer Support Rep and moreTrades & home services
Quotes out the same day, not next Sunday night
Operations Assistant and moreClinics & healthcare
A full front desk without a full front desk
Medical Virtual Assistant and moreMarketing & creative agencies
Margin comes from who does the production
Graphic Designer and more
The part nobody advertises
Cheap labour is a bad strategy
Most offshore arrangements fail for the same boring reason: the person was underpaid, so they left the moment something better appeared, usually right after you finished training them.
You are still going to save a great deal of money. That is a function of currency and cost of living, not of paying someone badly. We would rather you saved 70% and kept the person than saved 80% and did this again in eight months.
How we pay our peopleWe publish the salary, you pay the salary
The monthly figure on every profile is what the person earns. We don't take a cut of it, and we don't quote you a 'rate' that hides a margin.
Two to three times local market rate
Deliberately above the Philippine going rate for the role. It's the single biggest reason our placements stay past year one.
A real contract, and 13th month pay
Statutory benefits, proper leave, and the 13th month salary Philippine employees are entitled to. On the Managed plan we administer all of it.
Straight answers
“Yeah, but…”
The six things owners actually say on the first call. Two of them have answers you won’t like, and we’ve left those in.
Usually one of three things happened: they were hired off a marketplace with no screening, they were given tasks but no context, or nobody managed them. The first is ours to fix. The second and third are the reason we do a 30/60/90 check-in and hand you an onboarding plan rather than just an email address.
It's a fair question and the answer depends entirely on the rate. The people on our bench earn two to three times the Philippine market rate for their role, get paid on time, and get a real contract. That's not charity. Underpaid people leave, and a replacement costs you more than the difference ever saved.
Manila is ahead of the US and roughly aligned with Australia. Most of our people work either your morning or your overnight, and many prefer the shift. If your work genuinely needs someone live at 4pm New York time, say so early. Some candidates will and some won't, and we'd rather know before you interview them.
Then don't hire one. Part-time placements are common and cost proportionally less. The honest test: if you can't list 20 hours of recurring weekly work right now, you're not ready, and we'll tell you that instead of taking your fee.
Nobody does. That's why we ask you to record a handful of screen-shares rather than write documentation. Talking through what you already do takes an afternoon. Your VA turns those into the written process, which is a task they should be doing anyway.
You can, and for a small one-off task you probably should. The difference is screening and risk: we run skills tests and reference checks across a few hundred applicants for each role, and if the hire doesn't work we replace them free for six months. On a marketplace, that's all yours.
Questions
The practical stuff
Around 18 days from brief to start date, though it depends on how specific the role is. Very niche roles take longer. If we can't find the right person, we say so.
We replace them free of charge within the first six months. On the Managed plan you can also simply cancel with 30 days' notice.
On Direct Hire, you contract them directly. On Managed, we employ them in the Philippines and invoice you monthly, which keeps local employment compliance our problem rather than yours.
Every candidate is screened for a working machine and a backup connection. On the Managed plan we supply and maintain equipment, plus a power backup. Outages are a real thing in Manila and a backup is not optional.
Signed NDAs and confidentiality clauses as standard, plus role-appropriate training. HIPAA for medical roles, PCI awareness for anyone near payments. We'll work to your access policy: most clients use their own SSO and password manager rather than sharing credentials.
Yes. Three is what we've found is enough to choose well without wasting your week, but if none of them fit we run the search again at no extra cost.
Yes. Clients across the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Pricing is in USD.
Card or bank transfer. The placement fee is invoiced on your candidate's start date, not before. If nobody starts, you pay nothing.
Next step
Stop being the only person who can do it
Fifteen minutes, no pitch. Tell us what your week looks like and we’ll tell you honestly whether a hire fixes it.
Or email us, hello@menaitalentconsultants.com