With rising wages and Ontario's minimum at $17.60 as of October 1, 2025, hiring local staff can be costly. Remotely offers a more affordable solution—virtual assistants who handle admin, customer service, and routine tasks, so you can focus on growing your business.
Virtual Assistants Lighten Your Workload by handling:
Slash labour overhead by 60%, tapping a global pool of screened, supervised specialists so you can reinvest savings into critical growth initiatives or efficiency gains without compromising quality.
Stay flexible with simple month-to-month agreement—scale teams up, trim them back, or pause completely whenever business needs shift, and cancel anytime, with zero lock-in clauses or hidden exit fees.
Hand off the headaches—our team handles recruitment, HR, payroll, IT, and workspace logistics while continuously monitoring performance, keeping your operations running smoothly so you focus on revenue tasks.
One of the main obstacles that prevents companies from outsourcing is the fear of reducing the quality of work. Here at Remotely, we address this issue by:
Every company operates differently. In a one-to-one discovery call we map your goals, pinpoint the tasks you want offloaded, and advise on the best offshore staffing mix.
Our recruiters build a shortlist of top talent, verify hardware and internet stability, and administer standard English-language, logic, and numeric tests to ensure each applicant meets your brief.
You meet the pre-screened finalists via video to confirm fit and run any role-specific exercises. The entire recruitment phase is free—you pay only after your chosen agent is on the clock.
Agents log time through our tracker; you receive a fortnightly timesheet recap and are invoiced solely for the hours worked.
At month-end we roll those hours into one clear invoice. Your dedicated account manager handles payroll, performance reviews, and any seat adjustments, so you stay focused on your core business.
Hiring at $17.60/hour may seem simple, but hidden costs like 4% vacation pay, CPP, EI, WSIB, and payroll software quickly push the real cost closer to $24.50/hour. For small Ontario businesses, that adds up fast. On top of that, managing HR, compliance, and admin takes time away from what really matters — growth.
That's why more companies are choosing Remotely. We provide pre-vetted, trained virtual assistants starting at just $12.80/hour — no payroll headaches, no surprise fees. Just qualified support so you can focus on revenue, not admin.
Curious about the real dollars you can keep in-house by switching to Remotely? Use the chart below to compare traditional Ontario salaries with the all-inclusive rate of a dedicated Remotely teammate.
| Role | Remotely Virtual Assistant | Annual Cost per Local FTE* | Total Annual Savings |
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*Local FTE figures are rounded Ontario averages for 2025 and include base salary plus statutory benefits.
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