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You’re ready to hire a Filipino VA, you’ve heard OnlineJobs.ph is the place, and now you’re staring at the pricing page wondering: do I really need to pay, and which plan? Here’s the plain answer — including the one-month strategy most employers actually use.
OnlineJobs.ph pricing at a glance (2026)
Free — $0. You can post a job (with a ~2-day moderation delay), browse the resume database, and watch applications arrive. But you cannot message anyone or see contact details. It’s a shop window: you can look, not buy.
Pro — $69/month. The one most employers need. Instant job-post approval, up to 3 posts a month, full messaging, worker reviews, and the ability to contact 75 workers a month on top of everyone who applies to you.
Premium — $99/month. Everything in Pro, up to 10 posts and 500 outbound contacts a month. Built for agencies and volume recruiters — overkill for hiring one or two VAs.
The strategy most employers use: one month of Pro
Here’s the open secret: hiring a great VA takes 2–4 weeks. So most employers subscribe to Pro, run the whole hiring process, hire, then cancel. Total platform cost: $69 — once. Because OnlineJobs.ph charges a flat fee and takes no cut of your VA’s salary, ever, that’s the entire cost of the platform for a hire who may work with you for years. Compare that with Upwork’s percentage skim on every hour, forever.
Is OnlineJobs.ph safe and legit?
Yes — it’s been the largest Filipino remote-work marketplace for over a decade, and I say that as someone living in the Philippines, where the platform is a household name among online workers. Normal marketplace caution still applies: run a paid test task before committing, never pay anyone before work starts (you pay your VA directly, not through the platform), and use TimeProof during the trial period. My full hands-on take: OnlineJobs.ph Review (2026).
Which plan should YOU pick?
Hiring your first VA → Pro for one month ($69, then cancel — you can resubscribe anytime). Building a team of 3+ over months → keep Pro running. Agency recruiting at volume → Premium. Just researching → Free, to browse profiles and see the talent quality for yourself: browse the database here.
Bottom line: $69 once, hire directly, keep 100% of your VA’s salary going to your VA. It’s the best pricing model in the industry — as long as you go in with your hiring process ready so the month counts.
Written from Mati City, Philippines.
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You’ve hired (or you’re about to hire) a VA through OnlineJobs.ph, and someone mentioned TimeProof — the platform’s built-in time tracker. Here’s everything an employer actually needs to know, including the part most guides skip: when not to use it.
What TimeProof is
TimeProof is OnlineJobs.ph’s free time-tracking app. Your VA installs it on their computer and logs in with their OnlineJobs.ph account. While it runs, it records their working time and takes periodic screenshots — and all of it appears automatically in your employer dashboard on OnlineJobs.ph. No setup on your side, no extra cost.
How to set it up (employer side: there is no setup)
Your VA downloads TimeProof from OnlineJobs.ph and logs in with their own account.
They press start when they begin working for you.
You log into your OnlineJobs.ph employer account → open your worker’s record → view hours, screenshots, and activity, organized by day.
That’s the entire employer workflow. If the hours aren’t showing, it’s almost always one of: the VA is logged into the wrong account, their internet dropped mid-sync, or they simply forgot to press start. Ask before assuming anything.
When TimeProof helps
The first 30 days. While trust is forming, hourly tracking plus screenshots gives both sides a shared record. New VAs often prefer it — it proves their work.
Hourly arrangements. If you pay by the hour, TimeProof is your timesheet. No disputes.
Task-based troubleshooting. If output suddenly drops, a week of TimeProof data turns a vague worry into a specific conversation.
When it backfires (the part nobody tells you)
Even OnlineJobs.ph itself will tell you not to manage by tracker: for most roles, the only measure that matters is the quality and quantity of the work delivered. Screenshot-watching your VA for months signals distrust, and your best people — the ones with options — quietly leave employers who manage that way. The strongest long-term setups I see here in the Philippines are salaried, output-based, with TimeProof retired after onboarding or kept only for hourly billing.
My suggested pattern: TimeProof during the paid test task and first month → switch to output-based salary + a short daily check-in message. You’ll keep better people longer. (How to structure that first month is exactly what the 30-day onboarding plan in my VA Hiring Toolkit covers — $27, or $17 with code SUBSCRIBER.)
TimeProof vs third-party trackers (Hubstaff, Time Doctor)
If you’re on OnlineJobs.ph, TimeProof wins on price (free) and integration (data lands in the same dashboard where you found your VA). Third-party trackers add project budgets, payroll integrations, and multi-team reporting — worth it only once you’re running several VAs across platforms.
Bottom line: TimeProof is a trust-building tool for the start of a working relationship, not a management style. Use it for the first month, then manage the work, not the clock.
Written from Mati City, Philippines — where the person on the other side of the tracker actually lives.
A plain-numbers breakdown for coaches, consultants, and small business owners — written from here in the Philippines.
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You’ve done the math in your head a dozen times. A full-time assistant in the US or UK runs $3,500–$5,000 a month once you add payroll tax and benefits — so you keep doing the admin yourself at midnight. Meanwhile the “$5/hour VA” ads make you nervous: too cheap usually means too good to be true, or a hire that quietly disappears after week two.
Here’s the honest version. A skilled Filipino virtual assistant working full-time typically costs $500 to $1,500 a month — all in. That’s not a markup game or a staffing agency’s blended rate. It’s what the person actually earns, hiring them directly. Below is exactly where that number comes from, so you can budget with real figures instead of guesses.
The short answer
Most Western employers pay $500–$1,000 per month for a capable full-time Filipino VA handling admin, support, and coordination. Specialists (bookkeeping, social media, executive assistance) run $900–$1,500. Technical and creative roles — web development, SEO, video editing, paid ads — start around $1,000 and climb from there. Part-time is roughly half.
Filipino VA salary ranges by skill level
These are direct-hire, full-time monthly figures (about 160 hours). They reflect what experienced VAs on the open Philippine market command in 2026 — treat them as planning ranges, not fixed rates. Rates vary with English fluency, years of experience, time-zone overlap, and how specialized the work is.
Social media, bookkeeping, executive assistant, email marketing
$900 – $1,500
$6 – $9.50
Technical / creative
Web dev, SEO, video editing, paid ads
$1,000 – $2,000+
$6.50 – $13+
Why so much lower than a Western hire and still fair? Cost of living. A $700/month salary in the Philippines is a strong, professional-tier income — comfortably above local office wages — which is exactly why the best VAs stay long-term when they’re treated well. You’re not underpaying; you’re paying a great local wage in a lower-cost economy.
The three costs everyone forgets
The salary is the big number, but it isn’t the only one. Budget for these so month one holds no surprises:
1. The platform you hire on
The cleanest way to hire directly (no middleman markup, no ongoing per-hour fee) is OnlineJobs.ph — the largest job marketplace built specifically for Filipino VAs. You pay a monthly subscription only while you’re actively recruiting, then cancel once you’ve hired. That makes it a one-time cost for most people, not a recurring one.
For a first hire, Pro at $69 for a single month is almost always enough — you post a job, message your shortlist, run a test task, hire, and cancel. Here’s the key thing most people miss: OnlineJobs.ph takes no cut of your VA’s salary, ever. Compare that to marketplaces that skim 10–20% off every hour your VA works, forever.
You’ll send money internationally each pay cycle. The common options are Wise (lowest fees, best exchange rate — usually 1% or so), PayPal (convenient but pricier once currency conversion is added), and OnlineJobs.ph’s built-in EasyPay. Budget roughly 1–3% of salary for transfer costs.
3. Bonuses and the 13th-month norm
In the Philippines a 13th-month bonus (one extra month’s pay near year-end) is a deeply held cultural norm. You’re not legally bound to it as an overseas client hiring a contractor, but offering it — or a performance bonus of similar size — is one of the highest-ROI retention moves you can make. Pencil in one extra month of salary per year.
Real month-one budget (two examples)
Putting it together for a typical first hire versus a specialist hire:
Cost line
Entry-level hire
Specialist hire
VA monthly salary
$500
$1,200
Platform (OnlineJobs.ph Pro, hiring month only)
$69
$69
Payment transfer fees (Wise/PayPal, ~1–3%)
$5 – $15
$12 – $35
Month-one total (incl. platform)
≈ $574 – $584
≈ $1,281 – $1,304
Ongoing monthly (after you cancel the platform)
≈ $505 – $515
≈ $1,212 – $1,235
Notice the gap between the two bottom rows. Because the platform fee is a one-time recruiting cost, your ongoing monthly spend drops back to essentially just salary plus transfer fees after you cancel. A $505/month assistant who saves you 20+ hours a week is one of the cheapest leverage points in a small business.
Is it worth it? The one calculation that matters
Forget the sticker price for a second and value your own time. If your hour is worth $75 and a VA takes 25 hours of low-value work off your plate each month, that’s $1,875 of your time reclaimed — for a $505 assistant. The question was never “can I afford a VA.” It’s “can I afford to keep doing $6/hour tasks with my $75/hour time.”
Where to start
If the numbers work for you, the next step is simple: create a free account, post a clear job (this filters out 80% of mismatches before you ever read an application), and message your shortlist. The whole process from posting to hired usually takes one to two weeks.
Not sure how to write a job post that attracts the right people, or how to run a paid test task before committing? Grab the free 27-step VA Hiring Checklist — it walks you through the entire process end to end.
About the author: Ricardo Victor A. Velasco writes from Mati City, Davao Oriental, Philippines. He covers hiring, managing, and getting the most out of Filipino virtual assistants — from the side of the world where they actually live and work.
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