Not survey estimates. Median monthly cost from active contracts paid through Ontop. Pick up to five countries.
Most rate benchmarks are built from surveys or scraped job posts, so they measure what people say they pay. These come from money that actually moved: active contracts paid through Ontop, normalised to US dollars per month. We publish a country only when it has at least 30 active contracts across at least 20 different companies, and no single company accounts for more than 30 percent of them. That last rule matters, because a country where one client does most of the hiring shows you that client's pay policy, not a market.
Within Latin America the same role can cost three times more depending only on where the person lives. Uruguay runs above the United States. Venezuela sits near the bottom. Choosing the country is a bigger lever on cost than negotiating the rate, and it is the one most teams never examine.
It depends far more on the country than on the role. Across the markets here the median runs from about 950 USD a month in Venezuela to about 3,374 in Uruguay. Pick two countries above to see the range for each.
Neither. It is what companies pay contractors through Ontop, which is a real sample of cross border hiring but not a census of the country. Treat it as a benchmark for what global teams pay, not as a national wage statistic.
Averages get pulled apart by a handful of very high contracts. The median is the middle of the market, and the quartile range shows how wide that market really is. Both are more honest than a single average.
Usually yes on paper, because there are no employer contributions or statutory accruals. Whether you are allowed to use a contractor is a separate question, and getting it wrong is expensive. The classification test answers that one.