Recruiting & direct hire, all of Latin America
Build the team your next stage requires, not the team your local market limits you to.
SILA finds skilled LATAM professionals who work in your time zone and fit how your company communicates, decides and executes. We recruit, employ, pay and support them so they join your company as teammates, not a disconnected outsourcing layer.
SILA does not stop at advice or hand off the next step. We design the route, execute it across the region and remain accountable as the workforce scales or the model changes.
See the recommended market, model and landed cost before the sales conversation.
What is hire talent in Latin America?
Hiring talent in Latin America means recruiting bilingual professionals in markets that overlap US working hours, at salaries 40% to 70% below US equivalents. A calibrated shortlist takes five business days and an accepted offer two to four weeks. The main decision is not where to source, but how to employ: direct hire, EOR, staffing or a managed team.
SILA is the LATAM Workforce Operating Partner for this work: one team owns the market decision, workforce launch, local execution and next stage of scale.
Nearshore should feel like expanding your company, not managing an outsourced vendor.
Answer the cost question first
Model the landed cost for your Recruiting & direct hire requirement
Choose the role, market, seniority and headcount. See salary, statutory employer burden and the modeled monthly cost before deciding what to send SILA.
Live workforce cost model
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Ranked by verified role fit, talent depth and total workforce cost, not by lowest wage. Review-required markets are excluded and scoped with a specialist.
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Your modeled outcome
$103,476
baseline annual saving on 3 mid bilingual customer support seats in Mexico. Modeled range $92,244 to $113,736 (52%–64% below the US in-house equivalent).
1. US hire
$4,908 / month
A mid-level bilingual customer support hire on your US payroll costs $4,908 a month fully loaded, salary plus payroll taxes, benefits and insurance.
2. LATAM landed
$2,034 / month
The same mid-level bilingual customer support hire in Mexico lands at $2,034 a month, salary, statutory employer burden and the SILA fee inside one number. Plan between $1,749 and $2,346 depending on the profile you approve.
3. Your gap
$2,874 / month · 59%
That is $2,874 a month and $103,476 a year on 3 seats, 59% below the US equivalent, with SILA as the accountable employer of record where the model requires one.
4. Next step
Build My LATAM Plan
A SILA specialist confirms the salary band, employing structure and price in writing before anything is activated.
$310,428
saved over 3 years
59%
lower annual workforce cost
5–10 days
typical onboarding once talent is selected
Plan on this
$2,034
per seat, per month
Mid salary, mid statutory burden, standard service fee. This is the number to take to finance.
Budget safely
$2,346
per seat, per month
Upper modeled range for these assumptions. Your reviewed quote confirms the final budget and any additional items.
Best case
$1,749
per seat, per month
Lower end of the published band with the leanest structure. Reachable when seniority and market allow it.
▸ Landed cost breakdown, $2,034 / seat / month
- Gross salary
- $1,320
- Statutory employer burden
- $449
- Service fee
- $265
- Team of 3, annual
- $73,224
Burden in Mexico: IMSS, INFONAVIT, SAR, aguinaldo, vacation premium, PTU.
- Salary band modeled: $1,220–$1,420 gross monthly at mid level.
- Statutory employer cost: 28%–40% of gross. Mandatory benefits included, discretionary benefits excluded.
- Service fee assumption: 12%–18% of landed employment cost. Pass-throughs (equipment, background checks, one-time onboarding, severance reserves) excluded.
- USD-equivalent, quoted at the rate on the verification date. Local-currency payroll moves with FX and statutory indexation.
- Regional execution, payroll and compliance are coordinated through one SILA relationship.
- Fit for this role: High confidence, Strong fit for this role, fully served by SILA.
- Source: SILA placement data and each country's published statutory contribution schedules (IMSS, DIAN and UGPP, INSS and FGTS, CCSS, IESS, IGSS, TSS, CSS, IPS, NIS, NHT, SSB and equivalents), cross-checked against PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries. Ranges include mandatory accruals: 13th and 14th salary, vacation premium, severance and CTS or FGTS provisioning, and statutory profit sharing where it applies. Last verified 2026-08-21. See the methodology and claim registry.
- Built from SILA's current country salary, statutory burden and delivery data. A SILA specialist confirms final pricing, employing structure and launch date in writing before activation.
Mexico statutory sources
- Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS): Employer social security contributions.
- INFONAVIT: Housing fund employer contribution.
- Ley Federal del Trabajo: Aguinaldo, vacation premium and profit sharing (PTU).
Source id mexico-01, mexico-02, mexico-03. Verified 2026-08-21.
What your reviewed quote contains
- Your requirement
- 3 x mid Bilingual customer support in Mexico · $2,034 per seat per month landed, USD
- Recommended market and model
- Mexico, with the engagement model confirmed for the role and the headcount. A relevant alternative market is priced beside it.
- Itemized components
- Gross salary by seniority, statutory employer cost, mandatory benefits, our fee and any pass throughs, shown as one landed monthly figure per seat.
- Responsibilities
- Who employs, who pays, who manages the work and who carries the compliance obligation in this market. For a managed team, BPO or build operate transfer scope, the operating scope, dependencies and ownership are set out instead of a per employee price.
- Next decision
- Approve the market and model, or ask us to price the alternative.
Turn this estimate into a country-by-country hiring plan with employment costs, recommended operating model and launch timeline.
How the search actually runs
- Role calibration against local salary reality rather than US-anchored guesses
- Sourcing across local boards, referral networks and passive channels
- Language, technical and culture screening before any profile reaches you
- Offer strategy built around counteroffer risk and statutory notice periods
- Replacement cover inside the written guarantee window
What we align before anyone is presented
Fit is not a culture-fit checkbox. We evaluate every candidate against your actual working environment across seven dimensions, documented for your account and agreed with you before anyone is presented.
- Role capability: proven skills against the actual scope, not just the title
- Written and spoken English: the register the role requires, from tickets to executive presentations
- Time-zone overlap: confirmed working hours that match your team, not just regional proximity
- Communication and escalation style: how issues get raised and to whom
- Pace and ambiguity: comfort operating with your team's speed and level of defined process
- Ownership expectations: how much a candidate is expected to run without direction
- Manager and team environment: the reporting structure and team dynamic they will join
You choose the country, we make the trade-offs visible
The market decision is yours. SILA validates the country you prefer, or recommends the best starting market, judged on delivered output rather than the lowest published rate. Mexico and Costa Rica lead on US time-zone overlap and English depth; Colombia and Peru offer strong cost-to-quality in support and finance; Brazil and Argentina carry the deepest senior engineering pools with more complex employment rules. Our country guides publish the trade-offs per market.
Typical time to hire by role family
| Role family | Shortlist | Accepted offer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer support (bilingual) | 5–8 business days | 2–3 weeks | Deepest supply across the region |
| Finance and accounting | 8–12 business days | 3–5 weeks | US GAAP experience narrows the pool |
| Software engineering | 10–15 business days | 4–6 weeks | Senior and niche stacks run longer |
| Healthcare administration | 8–12 business days | 3–5 weeks | Certification checks add time |
| Leadership / country manager | 3–4 weeks | 6–10 weeks | Engaged search recommended |
Get the LATAM landed-cost benchmark
Employer burden, salary bands and total monthly cost across every market. One email, no call required.
Where this goes
Recruiting & direct hire is the fastest start. It is rarely where teams stop.
Most companies arrive with one country and one urgent hire. Twelve months later they are running several markets, a full team and their own entity. You can do all of that on the agreement you sign today, at your pace, without changing partners.
Add the next countries without a new contract
The same agreement extends to any market in the region. New country, same team, same invoice, no procurement cycle.
See country coverage →Let SILA run the team, not just the paperwork
Move from headcount to outcomes: recruiting, management, delivery and reporting on a managed team or SOW, priced to the result.
Managed teams and SOW →Own the operation, keep the same people
We stand up your entity, transfer the team and stay as your local representation. Nothing gets rebuilt and nobody gets re-hired.
Build your LATAM operation →See the whole path costed before you commit to the first step.
Turn the answer into an operating plan
Get a shortlist plan and salary benchmark
Give us the requirement once. SILA returns the recommended market, structure, landed cost and launch sequence, then owns the execution with you.
- Recruiting, employment and payroll across 20+ LATAM markets
- Every lane under one agreement: recruit, employ, manage, deliver
- One accountable delivery team, from first hire to regional operation
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