What monthly rate does the speaker cite for overseas workers using AI tools?

Scott EmpringhamAI Marketing Strategist | Helping CEOs Scale with AI

Paying too much!

15 Apr 2024 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("Paying too much!") by Scott Empringham arguing that US workshop attendees pay high prices because of local overhead (employee costs, insurance, litigation risk), while outsourced workers in countries like India and the Philippines — often using AI tools such as ChatGPT — can do equivalent work for about $1,500 per month. The speaker frames this as a major market shift that helps entrepreneurs but pressures US freelancers.

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$1,500 per month.

The biggest thing that I'm seeing, the biggest shift I'm seeing right now, is when we get people to our workshops. They're paying a lot because they're paying for overhead. They're paying for the cost of employees in California. They're paying the cost to insure against litigation. They're paying all these different costs. Good news for the entrepreneur, bad news for the freelancers here in the US the biggest shift I'm seeing is overseas in India, Philippines, and other places for fifteen hundred dollars a month, strapped with ChatGPT, different accounts, AI accounts, and they're doing the work of an army. And the cost can come down. So the reason that I think they're paying too much is they probably are.