TOOLS · COST CALCULATOR
Bilingual virtual assistant cost calculator.
One flat monthly price, next to what the same hours cost as a US hire once payroll tax, benefits, and equipment are loaded in. Move the inputs and the math recalculates.
This is the calculator from our home page on its own address, so you can send it to a partner or come back to it. Our column is the published flat tier for the hours you pick: $1,097 a month for one bilingual operator at 20 hours a week (Starter) or $1,797 a month at 40 hours a week (Operator). The US-hire column is your hourly wage times those hours times 4.33 weeks a month times a 1.30 employer load. Every assumption is stated below the tool, with two worked examples.
Prices current as of October 2026 · Estimates, not a quote
- ASSISTIQ
- The published flat tier for the hours chosen
- US HIRE
- Wage × hours × 4.33 × 1.30
- WEEKS / MO
- 4.33 (52 weeks over 12 months)
- LOAD
- 1.30, about 30%: payroll tax, benefits, equipment
- WAGE
- $16 to $30 an hour, your input
- HOURS
- 20 or 40 a week
Two numbers, side by side.
Pick the role closest to the seat you are filling (the preset changes the description, never the math), choose 20 or 40 hours a week, and set the hourly wage you would pay a local hire. The Assistiq figure is the published tier. The US-hire figure is computed from your inputs.
Adjust these and the numbers above recalculate live.
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The comparison adds the real ~30% employer load: payroll tax, benefits, equipment.
The difference: $2,706 a month. $32,472 a year.
Estimates, not a quote. The in-house column is computed from your wage input plus the employer costs shown. Our column is the published flat monthly price.
No annual contract · 7-day money-back · 5-business-day replacement
No annual contract · 7-day money-back · 5-business-day replacement
The assumptions, stated.
A calculator is only as honest as the formula under it, so here is the whole formula. One side is a published price. The other side is your inputs run through four numbers, every one of them shown in the table below and in the caption under the slider.
Two worked examples from the same arithmetic. At $20 an hour for 40 hours a week, a US hire comes to $4,503 a month loaded, against $1,797 for Operator, a difference of $2,706 a month. At $18 an hour for 20 hours a week, the hire comes to $2,026 against $1,097 for Starter, a difference of $929 a month. Both figures are computed on this page by the same function the slider calls.
| Input | Value | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Assistiq column | Published flat tier | Starter $1,097 a month at 20 hours a week; Operator $1,797 a month at 40 hours a week. The same numbers as the pricing page, current as of October 2026. |
| US hourly wage | $16 to $30, your input | Set it to what you would pay a local bilingual hire for this role. The slider bounds are a convenience; the formula holds for any wage. |
| Hours per week | 20 or 40 | Matches the Starter and Operator seats, so both columns price the same hours. |
| Weeks per month | 4.33 | 52 weeks divided by 12 months. |
| Employer load | 1.30 | About 30% on top of wages for payroll tax, benefits, and equipment. Disclosed in the caption under the slider. |
| US hire, monthly | Wage × hours × 4.33 × 1.30 | Rounded to the dollar. |
| The difference | US hire minus Assistiq | Monthly, and times 12 for the year. Computed from your inputs, never a fixed claim. |
What each column includes
The Assistiq figure is the seat and the structure around it: one named bilingual operator working your hours from a managed office in Latin America on company-issued equipment, anchored on Eastern Time, with a shared supervisor on Starter and Operator and the 7-day onboarding your team leads. The universal terms apply on every engagement and are listed below the paragraph.
The US-hire figure prices wages and the standard employer load only. It does not add recruiting, turnover, management time, office space, or software seats, and it does not subtract anything either. Your real number may land above or below it, which is why the tool calls itself an estimate and not a quote.
Assistiq universal terms: 7-day onboarding · 7-day money-back on Starter & Operator · Unlimited replacements: 5-business-day SLA, 3-operator warm bench · No annual contract, no buyout fees, cancel after Month 1
Common questions about the estimate.
01How is the cost estimate built?
02What is included in the flat tiers?
03Should I compare against part-time or full-time?
04Does the US-hire column include everything a local hire costs?
05How do I get a sample candidate profile for my role?
Pricing the market rather than one seat? The Spanish-speaking virtual assistant cost guide and the real estate virtual assistant cost guide carry provider prices verified on first-party pages, and the LATAM bilingual VA market rate report sets the quarterly benchmarks. Weighing the hiring model itself? Managed agency vs direct hire and Filipino VA vs LATAM VA walk through the structural trade-offs. The full tier table and universal terms are on the pricing page.
Numbers checked. Now the fit.
The next step is a 30-minute fit call. No slides, no sales pitch. We walk through your stack, your Spanish-speaking volume, the hours you need covered, and whether the Assistiq model fits, or does not. Honest answer either direction.
Or reach us directly at hello@assistiq.io.