[SingAlong]

>> And I can assure you there are amazing Indian, Japaneese, German, Russian, Finninsh and Australian devs.

>> And you can get some prime developers at lower than $100K/year

Totally agree with that. I work remote from Bangalore for a YC startup.

I can't say if I'm "amazing" or "prime". Before I got hired, I had a bunch of opensource projects which I had passionately crafted for personal use. But I do get paid on the far lower side of $100k. I joined on an independent contractor agreement just the next day after I finished college.

About managing tasks: we do 5-minute meetings every day and discuss what each of us are working on.

I'm curious to know what kind of legal work is required to hire remote workers outside the country (US) and how the hires are compensated.

[spiredigital]

I looked into the requirements when hiring abroad, and the IRS makes it insanely confusing (surprise, surprise). I finally determined that I had no U.S. payroll/withholding responsibility as my foreign employee was outside the U.S. and did all their work out of the U.S.

For payment, I use xoom.com to transfer bank-to-bank. Its worked out well for international payments so far and their fees are reasonable.

[SingAlong]

My pay is being sent via international bank transfers. Costs about $20 (on my end) which is fine with me. It takes about a day but I believe it's reliable.