It’s more affordable to work with individual virtual assistants as compared to syndicates. On average, the starting salary for a Filipino VA will range from $250 – $500/month depending on their background and expertise, if any. For syndicates, they’ll be demanding $500 - $750/month to start but the virtual assistant that they’ll give you will only get $250/month which means $250 - $500/month will go to people who haven’t even given you any value while the person that’s been working for you has been getting only
$250. Even if you doubled the pay of an individual VA from $250 to $500, it would still be cheaper than the $750 you’ll have to pay a syndicate. Plus, giving your VA a raise will boost their morale as well as incentivize them to work even harder for you while for syndicates, even if you increase their salary, a portion of that raise will go to the syndicate itself.