An offshore estimator from Offshored costs A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month, all-inclusive, and prepares take-offs, quotes and tenders full time in your estimating software, at your rates, in Australian business hours.
One dedicated estimator for your building, trade or landscaping business, recruited and managed by Offshored. You approve every quote before it goes to a client; the measuring, pricing and chasing come off your desk.
Quoting is the job that most often stalls a growing builder, trade contractor or landscaper. The owner or project manager is the only person who can price work, so quotes go out late, tenders get missed, and the site keeps calling. An offshore estimator takes the measuring and pricing off that person's desk while the decisions stay with them.
A typical day starts with the plans that arrived overnight: PDF drawings, DWG files or a Revit model from an architect, or a site plan and concept drawing from a landscape designer. The estimator measures the quantities in your take-off software, applies your rate library and current supplier pricing, requests and compares subcontractor prices where needed, and builds the estimate in your quote or tender template. You review it, adjust the margin if you want to, and send it.
For landscaping businesses the same process covers planting schedules, soil and mulch volumes, turf, paving and retaining wall quantities, irrigation and drainage, and the labour hours behind each. For builders and trades it covers everything from a bathroom renovation to a multi-unit tender, including preliminaries, variations during the job and the handover of the estimate into your job management system.
Many businesses pair the estimator with light drafting: marking up plans, producing simple site plans or landscape concept drawings in AutoCAD or SketchUp, and tidying client sketches into something a quote can be built from. Where you need full documentation sets, Offshored places dedicated architectural, civil and services drafters, listed on the roles page.
Start with the first column and add the second as trust builds. Your team member follows your procedures and your approval limits, documented during onboarding.
Your software, your licences. The estimator works inside the take-off, quoting and job management tools you already use, so the rate library, templates and quote history stay in your business. If you quote from a spreadsheet today, that is fine too; many clients move to a take-off tool once the estimator is in place.
An offshore estimator from Offshored costs A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month. That is one flat, all-inclusive fee per full-time team member, invoiced monthly in advance, in the technical and specialist band on our pricing page.
| Item | Offshore estimator |
|---|---|
| Monthly fee | A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month |
| Where in the band | Lower end for residential take-offs and quoting; upper end for commercial tender experience or an estimator who also drafts |
| What is included | Everything: recruitment and vetting, employment in the Philippines by Australian Pathways OPC, salary, Philippine income tax and statutory contributions (SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG), 13th month pay, paid leave, HMO health insurance, payroll, timekeeping, HR and performance management, office space and equipment for office based team members, and replacement at our cost if the person leaves |
| What is not included | Your estimating, CAD and job management software licences |
| Fees | No recruitment, placement or setup fees. One monthly invoice from Offshored Pty Ltd, an Australian company |
A construction accounts officer for progress claims, subcontractor invoices and retentions is A$2,100 to A$2,800 per month, and architectural, civil and services drafters are A$2,400 to A$3,400; both are on the roles page. Every band is on the pricing page and the reasoning behind the numbers is in the 2026 cost guide.
What Offshored looks for when shortlisting an offshore estimator for an Australian business:
You interview the shortlisted candidates yourself and make the final decision, so the person you hire meets your standard, not just ours.
Your offshore estimator works a full eight-hour day, Monday to Friday, at the times you set in your Australian time zone. Manila is two hours behind Sydney for most of the year, so the overlap is complete: they are online when you are, from your first coffee to close of business.
| Your office | Manila is behind by | Your 9am to 5pm day in Manila time |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart | 2 hours (3 hours in daylight saving, October to April) | 7:00am to 3:00pm (6:00am to 2:00pm in daylight saving) |
| Brisbane and Queensland | 2 hours, all year | 7:00am to 3:00pm |
| Adelaide | 1.5 hours (2.5 hours in daylight saving) | 7:30am to 3:30pm (6:30am to 2:30pm in daylight saving) |
| Darwin | 1.5 hours, all year | 7:30am to 3:30pm |
| Perth | No difference, same time as Manila | 9:00am to 5:00pm |
Team members work Australian public holidays unless the day is also a Philippine holiday, and Offshored gives you two business days' notice of any Philippine holiday that affects your team member's schedule. Every shift is logged on our timekeeping platform. See the FAQ on the Sydney to Manila time difference.
Yes. Estimators placed by Offshored are degree-qualified and measure in metric from the PDF, DWG or Revit drawings your architects and designers already produce. Your measurement conventions, rate library and margins are set up during onboarding, and you approve every quote before it goes to a client, so nothing is priced to a standard you have not set.
Whatever you use today. Common Australian tools include Buildxact, Cubit, Groundplan, PlanSwift, Bluebeam Revu, CostX and Databuild for take-offs and quoting, with simPRO, ServiceM8, AroFlo and Tradify on the job management side. The estimator works in your licences, so your templates, rates and quote history stay in your business.
A$2,400 to A$3,400 a month through Offshored, all inclusive. That covers a full-time, dedicated estimator employed in the Philippines by Australian Pathways OPC, with recruitment, payroll, statutory contributions, HMO health cover and day-to-day HR included. There are no recruitment or setup fees and no lock-in; the arrangement runs month to month on 30 days' notice.
Pick a time and William Smith, Offshored's co-founder, phones you. We scope the role, give you the monthly cost band and tell you honestly whether offshore staff will work for your business. No lock-in, no obligation.
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