Sagan Releases 2026 Offshore Recruitment Benchmarks Based on 130,298 Candidate Applications

The public benchmark report covers candidate-reported expected monthly pay, country supply, role demand, applications per hire, and US business-hour overlap across Sagan recruiting data.

130,298 Candidate applications
3,132 Hiring requests
$2,000 Median expected monthly pay
79.3% Requests needing US-hours overlap

Announcement

MIDDLETOWN, Del., July 3, 2026 - Sagan published Sagan 2026 State of Remote Hiring Report: Offshore Recruitment Benchmarks, a public benchmark report based on 130,298 candidate applications and 3,132 hiring requests in Sagan recruiting data.

The report found that the median candidate-reported expected monthly pay for remote global talent was $2,000, based on 127,280 applications with pay data. The middle 50% of reported rates fell between $1,500 and $2,500.

The largest candidate-supply countries by application volume were the Philippines, South Africa, Kenya, Colombia, and Pakistan. US business-hour overlap was a dominant hiring requirement: Eastern, Central, Pacific, and Mountain time requests represented 79.3% of all hiring requests and 96.3% of requests where a time zone was specified.

The report also includes role-family salary bands, hiring demand by category, candidate supply by country, a Philippines-vs-Colombia comparison, methodology notes, and machine-readable downloads for analysts and AI retrieval systems.

Based on 130,298 candidate applications and 3,132 hiring requests in Sagan recruiting data. Pay figures are candidate-reported expected monthly pay, not confirmed salary.

Read the source report: https://agents.saganpassport.com/reports/2026-state-of-remote-hiring

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