You have heard time and again that the best country to outsource work to is the Philippines.  But, do you know the sites where you can hire Filipino online freelancers?

Here is a list of sites where you can hire Filipino contractors:

1. EasyOutsource.com – EasyOutsource is one of the best place to hire Filipino online freelancers.  Our site has an all-Filipino worker line up.  The site is growing rapidly.  The site is very easy to use and have a lot of features that are useful to a job site.  One of these features is an internal messaging system that employers and workers can use to communicate with each other.  We are constantly adding new features and improvements to the site to make it even better and easier to use.  The best part is, using the site is free for both employers and workers!  There are no registration fees involved.  You don’t have to pay anything to post jobs, browse profiles, browse job posts, and apply for jobs.  Isn’t that great?
2. Onlinejobs.ph – OnlineJobs.ph is one of few international job sites that focuses exclusively on outsourcing to the Philippines. They have a wide pool of workers and you have a good chance of finding a qualified one here. OnlineJobs has a unique method of displaying worker profiles. Workers select their own skill levels from 1-5 on a wide variety of common outsourcing tasks. Employers may find this method useful for quickly evaluating the qualifications of candidates, but we also find that it’s easier to evaluate a candidate based on his or her written response to a prompt than a selection from a drop-down menu. The primary downside to OnlineJobs.ph is that the site charges employers $49.00/month to post jobs and use the site. The site is owned by John Jonas, who gives a lot of great tips for outsourcing to the Philippines at his blog.
3. Odesk.com – Odesk is one of the more popular sites to hire online freelancers.  They offer a downloadable time tracker that employers can use to track the actual time a contractor spends working for him.  Employers can see what their contractors are doing and freelancers get the assurance of guaranteed payment.  The site is not just for Filipino freelancers, though.  There are a whole lot of freelancers from the rest of the world, as well.  So when you post a job, you’d have to weed out applicants from other countries if you have your mind set at hiring a Filipino.  Odesk charges 10% of the total amount due to a provider and bills that, on top of the provider rates, to employers.  If you hire someone on an hourly basis, the amount due is automatically debited by odesk from the credit or debit card you used to register on the site.
4. Freelancer.com – Like odesk, freelancer.com has freelancers from all over the world, but it also has great number of Filipinos registered on the site.  Posting your first job there is free but posting subsequent ones will involve a fee depending on how you wish your job post to be featured.  Here is a table of the rates and fees for freelancer.com:
   

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5. Elance.com – To date, Elance has 1,554 registered online Filipino professionals.  That is already a good number, considering the fact that online freelancing in the Philippines is a fairly new trade.  Elance is unique in that they guarantee output and payment for both employer and provider.  They hold the fees in escrow and only release it to the provider once the work, or they call it milestone, is completed and is approved by the employer.  This way, both the interests of the employer and provider are protected.  Elance also charges fees for their services. Below is a table of their rates for employers and  membership plans for their providers:
   

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   Provider Membership Plans

6. Craigslist Philippines – Craigslist is a classified ads site that is community-based.  There is a craigslist site for almost every country in the world, and a section for every major city in a country.  There are sections for discussions, personal ads, rentals, for sale items, services, and jobs.  Though it is an unusual place to find someone to hire, there are a lot of great online freelancers advertising their services on this site.  If you hire someone from Craigslist, you don’t have to deal with fees and you will be hiring directly.  But since Craigslist is not really a job or an outsourcing site, your choices will be more limited than from an actual job site.
7. Guru.com -  Guru is another popular outsourcing site where you can hire Filipino online freelancers.  They have a good number of Filipinos registered on the site as freelancers, 2,022 when I last checked.  The very unique thing about this site is that it is free to use by employers.  Employers can post a job and hire without being charged with fees.  This is because Guru.com charges the freelancers 5-10% of their earnings to use the site.

   Guru has an internal payment system that is mandatory for users of the site.  They have a choice of two payment systems that an employer can use and the benefits are outlined in the following table:
   

8. WarriorForum.com – The WarriorForum is not a job or outsourcing site.  On the contrary, this is a popular internet marketing forum.  Ever since outsourcing has become popular, the forum has also become a place where people have discussed outsourcing.  Forum members, called warriors, are from all over the world.  Some members of this forum are employers and some are also freelancers.  The forum has a special place where you can commission one of its freelancer members to work for you.  You can find them under Warrior Products & Services > Warriors For Hire.  A lot of these “warriors” for hire are Filipinos.

The above-mentioned sites are some of the places where one can find and hire Filipino online freelancers.  This is a growing list and I will add more sites as I come across them.  If you know of other sites where one can hire Filipinos across all job categories, please bring the site to our attention by adding a comment to this post with a reference to the site.  We would greatly appreciate your help in making this list more comprehensive.

We look forward to hearing from you!