OnlineJobs.ph pricing for employers and what a hire really costs

These are the employer plans listed on the OnlineJobs.ph pricing page when we checked it in October 2026. Prices are in USD. The site advertises no salary markups, no contracts and cancellation at any time, plus a money back guarantee whose conditions sit on a separate page.

Two free tools stay available on every plan, including after you cancel: a time tracking tool and a payment tool for sending salary to your worker. Pro can be upgraded to Premium by paying the prorated difference, and a monthly plan can be switched to yearly with the last monthly payment counted toward the yearly price.

The Free plan is a preview. You can see who applies, but you cannot reply, so nobody gets hired on it. Pro covers a single hire for most small businesses: 75 contacts a month is plenty if your job post is specific. Premium makes sense when you hire several people, want the background data checks, or plan to keep posting roles all year. The yearly prices are low enough that anyone hiring more than once in twelve months should compare them before paying monthly.

The subscription is a rounding error next to the salary. Say you hire one full-time assistant at 6 USD per hour, the low end of the entry-level band for data entry and research in our virtual assistant cost per hour guide. Experienced people charge more. Forty hours a week is about 40 x 6 x 4.33 = 1,039.20 USD per month paid to the worker. Add Pro for the months you are recruiting, and the platform is under 7 percent of the first month's spend.

That last row matters most. Open job boards attract a lot of applicants, and every one of them has to be read, messaged and tested by you. Employers who rate these boards poorly usually describe the screening load, not the price.

Three things sit outside the subscription. The first is vetting. Identity and background checks are your job, with background data checks included only on Premium. The second is time zones. Most workers on a country-specific board live in one time zone, so if you need someone online during US business hours you have to ask each applicant whether they will shift their day. The third is management. There is no account manager, so contracts, onboarding and performance are yours. None of this is a flaw. It is what keeps the price low, and for many employers it is the right trade.

Aides is a marketplace with the same direct-pay principle, so you pay the assistant yourself and nobody adds a markup on their rate. The difference is what the subscription buys. Every assistant on Aides passes a government ID and liveness check before their profile goes live, you search by skill and by the hours that overlap with your own day, and assistants come from many countries rather than one. Plans are priced for teams that hire more than once.

An honest read: if you want the lowest possible salary, are comfortable vetting people yourself and do not need much overlap with US hours, OnlineJobs.ph is cheaper and does the job. If you want someone whose identity is already confirmed and who works during your day, Aides saves the screening time that never shows up on a pricing page. See all four plans on the virtual assistant cost page.

It is worth it when three things are true. You have time to screen applicants and run test tasks. Your work can happen asynchronously, or the person you hire is willing to work a night shift in their time zone. And you are hiring for a well-defined role, such as data entry, ecommerce listings or social media scheduling, where a short test shows skill quickly. It is a weaker fit when the role touches money, client files or your calendar in real time. Executive support, bookkeeping prep and customer calls during US hours depend on overlap and on knowing exactly who has access, which is why we built verified virtual assistant checks into every profile and overlap into the search. Our guide on virtual assistant time zone overlap shows how many live hours each role needs.

Write a job post with the software you use, the hours you need and one paid test task described in full. A precise post filters out applicants who cannot do the work before you read a single message. Pay for one test of one to two hours with each finalist, and pay them for it. Keep the signed agreement, rate and hours in one place. If you already store vendor and contractor paperwork in contract management software, file the assistant's agreement there too, so renewals and rate changes are not lost in an inbox. Then follow a two-week onboarding plan so your new hire is useful in days instead of a month. Our step by step guide to hire a virtual assistant covers each of these.

OnlineJobs.ph costs 69 USD per month for Pro or 99 USD per month for Premium, and 299 USD or 349 USD if you pay yearly. A Free plan lets you post jobs and read applications but not contact workers. The worker's salary is paid by you directly and is not included.

You can post up to three jobs and read applications for free, but you cannot see contact details or message applicants until you upgrade. In practice nobody gets hired on the Free plan. It works as a way to test how many applicants your job post attracts before you pay.

Yes. The pricing page advertises a 100 percent money back guarantee if you do not find someone good, with the detailed conditions on a separate guarantee page. Read those conditions before you subscribe, since guarantees like this usually require you to have actively used the plan.

Premium is worth it if you hire more than one person a year or want background data checks on candidates. On yearly billing it costs only 50 USD more than Pro and raises contacts from 75 to 500 a month. For a single hire with a clear job post, Pro is usually enough.

If you need verified identity and real overlap with US business hours, look at marketplaces that check every assistant and let you search by time zone. Aides does both and keeps direct pay with no markup. Agencies are the other route, at a higher monthly price. Our comparison of virtual assistant companies lays out each model.

Search assistants by skill and time zone, message the ones who fit and run a paid trial task before you commit.