Perry: Design Pickle pays offshore talent double the local average wage
Russ Perry · DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done · Jun 1, 2020 · at 6:42
Design Pickle founder Russ Perry outlines his company's global labor arbitrage strategy and compensation structure across emerging markets.
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“Our teams are in markets. I call them emerging markets where they are, you know, on average making three to four dollars an hour if they want to get a job where we'll start at six to seven dollars an hour. So we're three X-ing their take home, still fractional what you could hire here.”
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