An offshore drafter from Offshored costs A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month, all-inclusive, and produces your documentation full time in Revit, AutoCAD, Archicad or Civil 3D, to your office standards, in Australian business hours.
One dedicated architectural, civil and structural, or building services drafter for your practice, recruited and managed by Offshored. Your architects and engineers keep the design decisions and sign every issue; the modelling, documentation and revisions come off their desks.
An offshore drafter from Offshored produces documentation for an Australian architecture or engineering practice inside your software, templates and drawing standards, for A$2,400 to A$3,400 a month (Offshored pricing page, October 2026). The drafter takes the production work off those who win and design it, and your registered architect or chartered engineer reviews and signs everything that leaves the office.
A typical day starts with the mark-ups from the day before. The drafter updates the model or drawing set, develops the plans, sections, elevations and details for the current stage, and keeps the drawing register and revisions straight. For architectural practices that means development application and construction certificate sets, working drawings and schedules. For civil and structural consultants it means general arrangement, reinforcement and steelwork drawings, road, drainage and earthworks plans, and long sections. For building services consultants and contractors it means mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and fire services layouts and shop drawings.
Drawing to Australian standards and the National Construction Code is a matter of your office standards, templates and review. The drafter learns them during onboarding and follows them exactly, and responsibility for the design and for compliance stays with your registered or chartered professionals. Offshored places drafters, not certifiers.
Practices that also need quantities and pricing pair a drafter with an offshore estimator, and landscape architects and interior designers are listed on the roles page.
Offshore architectural drafting through Offshored means a dedicated drafter working only on your projects, in your Revit, AutoCAD or Archicad licences and to your office standards. The fee is A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month, all inclusive, on our pricing page. Seek advertises a Sydney draftsperson at A$85,000 to A$105,000 a year (October 2026). At the midpoints, with 12 percent superannuation on the salary, that is A$34,800 against A$106,400 a year, a 67.3 percent saving.
Offshore construction drafting covers the shop drawings, working drawings and services layouts that builders, subcontractors and services contractors need between design and site. Offshored places a dedicated drafter for this work at the same A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month, with no recruitment or setup fee, month to month on 30 days' notice. Time to hire is one to two weeks, and the drafter works your Australian business hours inside your own CAD software and templates.
An offshore drafter from Offshored can take ten task groups: documentation sets, modelling, mark-ups and revisions, details and schedules, civil and structural drawings, services drawings, coordination, as-built drawings, file conversion, and libraries and templates (Offshored drafter role page, October 2026). Start with the first column and add the second as trust builds.
An offshore drafter from Offshored works inside your own CAD and BIM licences, across the 12 platforms listed here including Revit, AutoCAD, Archicad and Civil 3D (Offshored drafter role page, October 2026), through a VPN or your cloud platform, so models, drawings and intellectual property stay in your business. Tell us before recruitment if the role needs a supplied workstation.
An offshore drafter from Offshored costs A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month (Offshored pricing page, October 2026). 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, with no recruitment fee, no setup fee and no lock-in contract (offshored.net/terms, October 2026).
| Item | Offshore drafter |
|---|---|
| Monthly fee | A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month |
| Where in the band | Lower end for a drafter producing 2D documentation from mark-ups; upper end for a senior Revit or Civil 3D drafter who models, coordinates and checks the work of others |
| 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 CAD, BIM and rendering software licences |
| Fees | No recruitment, placement or setup fees. One monthly invoice from Offshored Pty Ltd, an Australian company |
An offshore estimator for take-offs, quotes and tenders is also A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month and has its own page. Every band is on the pricing page and the reasoning behind the numbers is in the 2026 cost guide.
“One of the best business decisions that I’ve ever made. Having offshore staff through Offshored on a range of different roles, not only improved my business operations, but significantly reduced our operation’s costs”
Maria, Google review
Case study: Desert Flower Landscaping, an Adelaide landscape design and construction company, has two landscape designers and a bookkeeper through Offshored for A$99,000 a year, against A$280,000 for the same three roles hired in Adelaide: a difference of A$181,000, or 64.6 percent (Seek Adelaide salary midpoints, refreshed 1 September 2026; Offshored fee bands, September 2026). Read the Desert Flower case study
An offshore drafter from Offshored costs A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month, all-inclusive, which is A$28,800 to A$40,800 a year, against A$95,200 to A$117,600 for a Sydney draftsperson advertised at A$85,000 to A$105,000 a year with 12 percent superannuation (Seek, October 2026). The week below shows what that fee replaces in a practice.
This is the pattern most clients settle into after the first month. Your team member follows your procedures and approval limits, and you can change the mix at any time.
Salary figures are Seek's average advertised full-time salary range for Draftsperson jobs in Sydney, refreshed 1 October 2026; Seek notes that some advertised salaries include superannuation. The superannuation guarantee has been 12% since 1 July 2025. The 2026 cost guide adds payroll tax, leave, recruitment and equipment to the local side of the comparison. Offshored's figure is the approved band on the pricing page. Before you share system access, read how we protect your data.
Offshored shortlists offshore drafters against six criteria: a bachelor's degree in architecture, civil engineering or a related building discipline, a documented drafting history in your discipline, your software tested at interview, Australian conventions set up during onboarding, clear written English, and an NBI clearance after a pre-screening interview in Manila (Offshored drafter role page, October 2026). The six are:
You interview the shortlisted candidates yourself, set a drawing test if you wish, and make the final decision, so the person you hire meets your standard, not just ours.
Your offshore drafter from Offshored works a full eight-hour day, Monday to Friday, at the times you set in your Australian time zone. Manila is UTC+8, two hours behind Sydney on Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10) and three hours behind in daylight saving (UTC+11), so the overlap is complete: they are online when you are.
| 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.
Offshore architectural drafting through Offshored suits an Australian practice that issues documentation sets every month and has a registered architect to review and sign them. The dedicated drafter costs A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month, all inclusive (Offshored pricing page, October 2026), and works full time in your Revit, AutoCAD or Archicad licences in your business hours.
Three questions settle the fit. First, is there a full week of production drafting coming off your architects' desks? The role is full time, 40 hours a week, so a practice that issues a set every few months will not keep it busy. Second, are your templates, title blocks and drawing standards written down? A drafter in Manila follows them exactly, but cannot guess them. Third, will a registered architect in your office review and sign every issue? Design responsibility and compliance stay with your registered professional, as they do for a drafter in your own office.
If the answer to all three is yes, the saving is the next question. Seek advertises a Sydney draftsperson at A$85,000 to A$105,000 a year (Seek career advice, refreshed 1 October 2026), which is A$95,200 to A$117,600 with 12 percent superannuation, against A$28,800 to A$40,800 a year through Offshored. Practices that also price work pair the drafter with an offshore estimator at the same band, and builders will find the construction side on the trades and construction page.
Yes, under your review. Drafters placed by Offshored are degree-qualified and work from your templates, office standards and mark-ups, and they learn the Australian Standards and National Construction Code references your practice uses during onboarding. Design responsibility and sign-off stay with your registered architect or chartered engineer, exactly as they do for a drafter in your own office.
Whatever your practice runs. Australian architecture practices mostly run Revit, AutoCAD or Archicad, civil consultants run Civil 3D or 12d Model, and building services drafters work in Revit and AutoCAD. The drafter works in your licences and project folders, so your models and drawings never leave your systems.
A$2,400 to A$3,400 a month through Offshored, all inclusive. That covers a full-time, dedicated drafter 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.
Typically one to two weeks from your first call with Offshored. Shortlisting takes three to four days, then you interview the shortlisted drafters and choose the person yourself. Because the Philippine employing entity, payroll and onboarding are already in place, your drafter can start as soon as the paperwork is signed, so have a software licence, your drawing templates and standards, and a sample project ready for day one.
You do. Every drafter recruited by Offshored signs an employment contract with Australian Pathways OPC that includes an intellectual property assignment clause, so the work product belongs to the client, and a confidentiality clause that continues after employment ends. The drafter works in your CAD or BIM environment with the access you grant, and all logins are removed on their last day.
Offshored replaces the drafter at our cost, with no re-recruitment fee. During the six month probation Offshored formally asks for your feedback at the end of month one, month three and month six, so a poor fit is picked up early. There is no lock-in contract either: you pay month to month and can end the arrangement with 30 days' notice and no exit fee.
Yes. Offshored recruits drafters for residential builders as well as architectural practices: working drawings, construction details, site plans and council and certifier sets from your sketches or design files, in your CAD or BIM software and to your drawing standards. Your registered building designer or architect reviews and issues the set. The fee is A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month, all inclusive.
Yes. Offshored places one dedicated person per role, so a CAD team is built drafter by drafter, each at A$2,400 to A$3,400 per month and each working only for your practice in your software and standards. Start with one, prove the workflow, then add. Every drafter is employed by Australian Pathways OPC in the Philippines, and you can add or end a role with 30 days' notice.
Offshore drafting services price per drawing or per project and allocate whoever is free. A dedicated offshore drafter through Offshored is one named person who works full time for you only, learns your standards, and is managed by you. Offshored's cost benchmark puts a Sydney draftsperson at A$85,000 to A$105,000 on Seek against A$28,800 to A$40,800 a year through Offshored, a 67 percent saving at the midpoint.
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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