OnlineJobs.ph badges its annual plan “64% Savings!” and the arithmetic is correct. It is also the wrong number to look at, because the saving is measured against a way of buying this product that almost nobody should use.
Here is the thing the pricing page will not tell you. The cheapest sensible way to hire on OnlineJobs.ph is to post your job on the free tier, wait, then buy exactly one month of Pro at $69, hire, and cancel. Total cost $69. The annual plan at $299 is 4.3 times that, and it only pays off if you are hiring repeatedly all year.
I run Ecommerce Paradise and I have hired this way for my own store, so this is a subscription I have actually started and cancelled rather than a page I skimmed. Every figure below came off OnlineJobs.ph’s own pages on 16 September 2026.
You Probably Want One Month, Not One Year
Post free, wait for applicants, buy one month of Pro at $69, hire, cancel. The annual plan costs 4.3 times that.
The Three Tiers
| Free | Pro | Premium | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 | $69 | $99 |
| Annual | $0 | $299 | $349 |
| Contact and hire workers | No | Yes | Yes |
| Job posts | 3 total | 3 a month | 10 a month |
| Applications per job | 15 | 200 | 200 |
| Job post approval | 2 days | Instant | Instant |
| Outbound contacts a month | None | 75 | 500 |
| Background data checks | No | No | Unlimited |
The single most important cell in that table is the third row. OnlineJobs.ph’s pricing page puts it in capitals: “You CAN NOT contact, interview, or hire people with a FREE account.”
Contacting people is the only thing the free tier blocks outright. Job posts, viewing applications, bookmarking workers, TimeProof and EasyPay all work. It is still capped in other ways, at 15 applications a job and a 2-day wait for approval, but those are limits rather than locked doors. You simply cannot talk to anyone.
The Number That Does Not Change When You Upgrade
Look at the applications row again. Free is capped at 15 per job. Pro is capped at 200. Premium is also capped at 200.
So paying the extra $30 a month for Premium does not get you more applicants. It gets you more job posts, from 3 a month to 10, and more outbound contacts, from 75 to 500. If you are filling one role, neither of those is your constraint and Pro is sufficient.
That matters because Premium carries the “most popular!” badge, which is a nudge rather than a recommendation. Work out whether you need 10 job posts a month before paying for them.
What the 75-Contact Limit Actually Limits
This one trips people up and the answer is in a tooltip most readers never open.
The tooltip says: “You may communicate with all job applicants. This limit only applies to using the ‘Contact’ button on worker profiles.”
So the 75 is a cap on you reaching out cold to people who did not apply. Everyone who applies to your job post, you can talk to without limit. For most store owners posting a decent job ad, the contact limit will never bind at all, which removes one more reason to reach for Premium.
Why the Annual Plan Is Usually the Wrong Purchase
OnlineJobs.ph’s savings badges are honest arithmetic. Pro at $69 a month is $828 across a year against $299 paid annually, a saving of $529 or 64 percent. Premium at $99 monthly is $1,188 against $349, a saving of $839 or 71 percent.
| How you buy it | Pro | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| One month, then cancel | $69 | $99 |
| Annual, paid upfront | $299 | $349 |
| 12 monthly payments | $828 | $1,188 |
Read that table top to bottom rather than left to right. The saving badge compares row two against row three. But row one is the option most people should take, and against row one the annual plan costs 4.3 times more on Pro and 3.5 times more on Premium.
OnlineJobs.ph is unusually direct about this being allowed. Its own FAQ: “Do I have to keep my subscription after I hire someone? No, you don’t have to keep it. There is no time requirement. No contracts.”
Annual makes sense in one situation: you are hiring several people across the year, or you hire on a rolling basis. If you are filling one seat, you are buying eleven months you will not use.
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The Guarantee, Including the Line Nobody Quotes
There is a real 30-day money-back guarantee, and its own page states it plainly: “If you’re not happy for any reason within 30 days of upgrading, we’ll give your money back.”
The fine print underneath, which I have not seen quoted anywhere else: “One refund per customer/company.”
That is not a trap, but it does change how you should use it. You get one. So do not burn it on a month where you simply forgot to cancel, even though OnlineJobs.ph lists that as a refundable case. Save it for the outcome that actually matters, which is subscribing and finding nobody worth hiring.
Note also that this is not a free trial and the company is emphatic about that. Its pricing page carries a heading reading “Why No Free Trial?” and the line “It’s better than a ‘free trial.'” If an article tells you OnlineJobs.ph has a free trial, it has not read the page.
The Free Tier Is More Useful Than It Looks
Most write-ups treat the free account as a shop window. It is more than that, and using it properly is what makes the one-month play work.
On free, with no credit card, you can post up to 3 jobs, wait out the 2-day approval, and see up to 15 applications on each one. You cannot message any of them. But you can read them.
That tells you the thing worth knowing before you pay: whether your job ad, at your salary, attracts anyone good. If 15 applications arrive and none is credible, the problem is your ad or your budget, and paying $69 will not fix it. If three strong candidates turn up, you now know exactly what your $69 is buying.
OnlineJobs.ph endorses this sequence itself. Its FAQ says the free tier “gives you a good idea of if you’re going to find someone good.”
What You Keep After Cancelling
Two tools stay free forever, which is unusual and worth planning around.
TimeProof is time tracking. OnlineJobs.ph describes it as recording working time with automatic screenshots and automatic reporting. The worker installs a client, you view the data in your account, and it is “Always FREE to use” including after you cancel.
EasyPay is how you pay people, and it is also free. OnlineJobs.ph is careful to say what it is not: “Its not a payment system itself though. You are always paying workers through an outside payment processor. Currently, we use Payoneer and Paypal to facilitate the transfer.”
On its own cut: “OnlineJobs.ph offers EasyPay for FREE. We take no overhead fees or any kind of cut of payments sent to workers.”
So the cancellation path is genuinely clean. You pay for one month of access to people, then keep the payment and tracking tools indefinitely. The cancel path itself is published: Account Dashboard, then the Account dropdown, then Billing, then Cancel Subscription.
The Fees That Are Not OnlineJobs.ph’s
OnlineJobs.ph takes nothing from wages. Third parties do, and those numbers belong in your budget.
| Cost | Amount | Who pays |
|---|---|---|
| Payoneer transaction fee via EasyPay | 1 percent, waived by arrangement | Nobody |
| Funding a payment by bank | No fee | You |
| Funding a payment by credit card | 3 to 4 percent | You |
| Converting USD to pesos | 2 percent over market rate | Worker, unless you gross up |
| Payoneer debit card, optional | $29.95 a year | Worker |
That forex row is the one to settle before you hire, not after. In OnlineJobs.ph’s own words: “It should be agreed upon during the interview/hiring process whether the monthly salary (lets say, $500 USD a month), excludes or includes the forex fees.” On a $600 salary that is $12 a month, which is small in absolute terms and large as a source of resentment if nobody agreed it.
Two practical notes. Fund by bank rather than card and you avoid 3 to 4 percent entirely. And the first Payoneer payment takes 5 to 7 business days to land, with subsequent ones at 24 to 48 hours, so start the payment setup before your VA’s first payday rather than on it.
Worth noting that OnlineJobs.ph advises against the Payoneer debit card itself, which is not what you expect from a company describing an optional extra.
Why $69, When It Used to Be $49
The pricing page answers this directly in a FAQ titled “Why don’t you offer a lower priced option?”: “We offered OnlineJobs.ph at $49 for 8 years without raising it. We felt like the price raise was justified with rising costs.”
So $49 was the price for eight years and $69 is a 41 percent increase on it. If you see $49 quoted anywhere, that article is out of date.
The company is also unusually candid about why the paywall exists where it does: “If we let employers contact workers without paying, they start to get scammy… Plus, it’s how we make money.” Both halves of that are true and most companies would only print the first.
How It Compares on Structure
The reason this platform is cheap is not that it charges less. It is that it charges for something different.
| Platform | What you pay for | Cut of the wage | Cost of 3 hires |
|---|---|---|---|
| OnlineJobs.ph | Database access | None | Same as 1 hire |
| Upwork | Percentage of spend | Yes, ongoing | Rises with spend |
| Contra | Per contract, per contractor | None | 3 fees |
| Fiverr | Percentage per order | Yes, per order | Rises with orders |
OnlineJobs.ph’s own framing: “We charge up front so we don’t have to mark up salaries. Nobody likes middlemen and unnecessary markups.”
For contrast, Upwork’s client pricing page lists a 5 percent marketplace fee on every payment you make, falling to 3 percent for eligible US clients paying by checking account, plus a one-time contract initiation fee of $0.99 to $14.99. The initiation fee is one-time, but the marketplace percentage recurs on every dollar for as long as the relationship lasts.
The consequence is that the subscription is per account rather than per hire. Three VAs cost the same $69 as one. Ten cost the same as one. No percentage platform behaves that way, and it is why the cost of hiring here stops scaling once you are past your first hire. I compared the meters across the whole field in the freelance platform comparison.
The trade is real though. You get a database, not a service. Contracts, payment setup, currency conversion and any tax paperwork are yours to arrange. That is exactly the work managed platforms charge you to remove, so do not read the price comparison as like for like.
What OnlineJobs.ph Does Not Publish
Any salary figures at all. No rate card, no market averages, nothing. Every “typical Filipino VA salary” range you will read online, including in my own earlier writing, is somebody’s experience rather than a published benchmark. Treat them accordingly.
What “One VA Away Access” and “Contracts and Documents” actually are. Both are badged as new Premium features and neither is defined on the pricing page.
How the AI Matching works. The claim is there, quoted below, but nothing about the method.
The Claims, Labelled as Claims
The pricing page carries a live counter reading “19,115 employers upgraded this month”. That is the company’s own number, unaudited, and it changes daily.
Its AI Matching pitch says it will “narrow down your applicants and tell you who is most likely to succeed. No filtering or weeding of bad applicants. AI does it for you. Then you interview and select from the best. No wasted time. No mistakes.” That last sentence is an absolute claim about a matching algorithm and should be read as marketing.
The site also makes a broad claim about a national culture of honesty among Filipino workers. I am not going to repeat it as a reason to hire, because it is an unevidenced generalisation about a nationality and the platform’s actual advantages are structural and checkable without it.
Who Should Buy Which Tier
Free, for everyone, first. Post the job, read the applications, decide whether the candidates justify $69. It costs nothing, and the 2 days is the job post approval window rather than the time it takes applications to arrive, so give it a week in total.
One month of Pro, for most people. $69 buys instant job posts, 200 applications per job and unlimited conversation with everyone who applies. Hire, then cancel and keep EasyPay and TimeProof. One thing to check on the day rather than take from me: OnlineJobs.ph does not publish whether applications collected under the free 15-per-job cap all become contactable once you upgrade an existing post. If that matters to your plan, ask support before you pay, or simply repost the job after upgrading.
Annual Pro at $299, if you are hiring all year. The break-even is five separate months, because $299 divided by $69 is 4.3. Four separate hiring pushes cost $276 and still beat the annual plan. From the fifth, annual wins.
Premium, only for a specific reason. Unlimited background data checks for a role touching money, or genuinely needing more than 3 job posts a month. Not because it says “most popular”.
Where Hiring Sits in the Build Order
Worth saying, because hiring help is a popular early move and early is usually wrong.
A VA multiplies what already works. They do not find you suppliers, choose your niche or create demand for a store nobody visits. Pre-launch, a hiring subscription is a cost with nothing to multiply.
What matters at that stage is what you sell, which the high-ticket niches list covers at no cost.
Supplier approval is the genuine bottleneck and no VA unblocks it for you. The whole process is in the supplier sourcing guide.
Distributors want a registered entity before discussing terms, which the business formation guide walks through. If the model itself is still open, read what high-ticket dropshipping actually is before hiring anyone to run part of it.
Read the Full Review Before You Subscribe
What the database is actually like, how the hiring process runs, and where the platform falls short.
Common Questions
How much does OnlineJobs.ph cost in 2026?
Free to browse and post. Pro is $69 a month or $299 a year. Premium is $99 a month or $349 a year. The free tier cannot contact, interview or hire anyone.
What is the cheapest way to hire on it?
Post your job on the free tier, read the applications, then buy one month of Pro at $69, contact your shortlist, hire and cancel. There is no contract and no minimum term.
Is the annual plan worth it?
Only if you hire repeatedly. The 64 percent savings badge compares $299 against paying $69 twelve times, which is a purchase pattern almost nobody should use. Against one month of Pro, the annual plan costs 4.3 times more.
What does Premium add over Pro?
Ten job posts a month instead of 3, 500 outbound contacts instead of 75, unlimited background data checks, a worker mentoring service, AI Matching, One VA Away Access, and Contracts and Documents. The application cap is 200 on both.
Is there a free trial?
No, and OnlineJobs.ph says so explicitly. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee from the date you upgrade, limited to one refund per customer or company.
Does OnlineJobs.ph take a cut of my VA’s salary?
No. Its position is “Hire direct. No salary markups or ongoing fees”, and its EasyPay page adds that it takes no overhead fees or cut of payments sent to workers. Third-party payment and currency fees still apply.
What happens if I cancel?
You lose the ability to contact and hire new people, and you keep TimeProof and EasyPay free. Cancel from the Account Dashboard, under Account, then Billing.
What should I pay a Filipino VA?
OnlineJobs.ph publishes no rate card and no market averages, so there is no authoritative answer. Post a job at a rate you can sustain and let the applications tell you whether it is competitive.
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Trevor Fenner is an ecommerce entrepreneur and the founder of Ecommerce Paradise, a platform focused on helping entrepreneurs build and scale profitable high-ticket ecommerce and dropshipping businesses. With over a decade of hands-on experience, Trevor specializes in high-ticket dropshipping strategy, niche and product selection, supplier recruiting and onboarding, Google & Bing Shopping ads, ecommerce SEO, and systems-driven automation and scaling. Through Ecommerce Paradise, he provides free education via in-depth guides like How to Start High-Ticket Dropshipping, advanced training through the High-Ticket Dropshipping Masterclass, and fully done-for-you turnkey ecommerce services for entrepreneurs who want a faster, more hands-off path to growth. Trevor is known for emphasizing sustainable, real-world ecommerce models over hype-driven tactics, helping store owners build scalable, sellable, and location-independent brands.
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