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- How to hire an after-hours receptionistA receptionist in the United States earns a median of $38,010 a year, or $18.27 an hour, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2025 count, and an after-hours or overflow posting is usually the same job on the hours the office is closed: evenings, weekends, lunch, and the calls that ring out while the desk is busy. Allying answers those hours priced off the salary you post, with a monthly minimum of $950, and does the first week before any call with you.
- How to hire a bilingual receptionistA receptionist in the United States earns a median of $38,010 a year and a customer service representative $44,770, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2025 count; a bilingual posting is one of those two jobs with a second language in the first line. Allying does the phone and inbox half of it in both languages, priced off the salary you post, with a monthly minimum of $1,000, and does the first week before any call with you.
- How to hire a bookkeeperA bookkeeper in the United States earns a median of $50,670 a year, or $24.36 an hour, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2025 count, and a staff accountant, the title the same posting carries at a slightly bigger company, earns $83,680. What most small businesses are hiring for under either title is month-end close: the books for the month complete, tied to the statements and locked, without a plug. Allying does that job priced off the salary you post, with a monthly minimum of $1,375, and does the first week before any call with you.
- How to hire a copywriterPost the job with your products, your channels and your weekly quota in the first three lines, and expect to pay around the national median of $76,910 a year for a writer, before benefits. Allying does this job off the posting you already wrote, priced off the salary in it (about $1,923 a month at that median), and the first week of the work, thirty pieces in your voice, is done and waiting on a private page before anyone asks you for a call.
- How to hire a customer service repA customer service representative in the United States earns a median of $44,770 a year, or $21.53 an hour, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2025 count, and the middle half earn between $36,870 and $51,780. Allying does this job in the helpdesk you already run, priced off the salary you post with a monthly minimum of $1,395, and answers your queue as drafts for a week before any call with you.
- How to hire an email marketerAn email marketer runs the messages your customers signed up for: the welcome, the abandoned cart, the note after the order, the campaign before a sale, and the texts, inside the platform you already pay for. The national median wage for the occupation the Bureau of Labor Statistics files this work under is $78,760 a year ($37.87 an hour). Allying does the job priced off the salary you post (about $2,708 a month on a posting at the 75th percentile, $108,310, where lifecycle postings tend to sit) and does the first week, from what your own signup form sends, before any call.
- How to hire an executive assistantAn executive assistant in the United States earns a median of $76,590 a year (BLS, May 2025), and a general administrative assistant $47,540, so decide first which of the two you are hiring. Allying does this job priced off the salary you post (a posting at the $76,590 median becomes about $1,915 a month), and the first week of the work is on a private page before any call.
- How to hire a graphic designerA graphic designer in the United States earns a median of $62,960 a year (BLS, May 2025), and a small consumer brand mostly needs one for the daily stream of social, ad, email and web assets, with print as the occasional job. Allying does this job priced off the salary you post (the $70,000 low end of goop's senior posting becomes $1,750 a month), and the first week's work, twenty assets in your brand, is on a private page before any call.
- How to hire an influencer coordinatorBLS has no occupation called influencer coordinator; the nearest, marketing specialists, earns a median of $78,760 a year (May 2025), while live coordinator postings at consumer brands run $50,000 to $80,000. Allying does this job priced off the salary you post (BYOMA's $70,000 low end becomes $1,750 a month), and the first week, a hundred vetted creators and the outreach drafts, is on a private page before any call.
- How to hire a marketing coordinatorThe marketing specialists who do this job at a small company earn a median of $78,760 a year, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2025 count, and the managers the title is sometimes filed under earn $166,790. A marketing coordinator posting at a clinic, a shop or a contractor often turns out to be the reviews-and-listings job: every review answered, every listing right, the pages a competitor ranks for built for you. Allying does that job priced off the salary you post, with a monthly minimum of $1,125, and does the first week before any call with you.
- How to hire a marketing managerMarketing managers in the United States earn a median of $166,790 a year, and the marketing specialists who do this job at a small company earn a median of $78,760 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Allying does the job priced off the salary you post (about $1,969 a month at the specialist median), and the first week of the work is done before any call.
- How to hire a paid media managerThe ads specialists a small business posts for are filed by BLS with Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists, median $78,760 a year, and the advertising managers who run larger budgets earn a median of $133,660 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Allying does the job priced off the salary you post, with a floor of $2,500 a month that a $100,000 posting lands on exactly, your ad spend never in the price, and the first week of the work done before any call.
- How to hire a PR coordinatorPublic relations specialists in the United States earn a median of $74,750 a year, and the lower quarter of the occupation, where coordinator postings sit, earns under $56,260 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Allying does the job priced off the salary you post (a $52,000 posting comes to $1,300 a month), and the first week of the work, a list of fifty journalists who covered your category and a release and pitch for your next moment, is done before any call.
- How to hire a receptionistA receptionist in the United States earns a median of $38,010 a year, or $18.27 an hour, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2025 count, and the middle half of receptionists earn between $33,960 and $45,130. Allying does the phone half of this job priced off the salary you post, with a monthly minimum of $1,395 that most receptionist postings land on, and does the first week before any call with you.
- How to hire a recruiting coordinatorA recruiting coordinator writes your postings, sources candidates, sorts applicants against criteria you set, runs the first phone screens, books the interviews and keeps the applicant system clean. BLS files recruiters under a specialist occupation with a $75,940 median and the scheduling half under an assistant occupation with a $50,610 median (May 2025); a coordinator posting at a small business usually sits between them. Allying does this job off the posting you already wrote, priced off the salary in it (Comfrt's $80,000 low end is $2,000 a month), and the first week of the work is done and on a private page before anyone at Allying asks you for a call.
- How to hire a reporting analystA market research or reporting analyst in the United States earns a median of $78,760 a year, or $37.87 an hour, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2025 count, and the middle half earn between $58,350 and $108,310. Allying does this job priced off the salary you post ($1,969 a month at that median) and rebuilds a report of yours from your own public data before any call with you.
- How to hire an SEO specialistAn SEO specialist makes sure the people searching for what you sell find you: on Google, on the map, and now in AI answers. The national median wage for the occupation the Bureau of Labor Statistics files this work under is $78,760 a year ($37.87 an hour). Allying does the job priced off the salary you post (about $1,969 a month at that median) and does the first week, on your own site and listings, before any call.
- How to hire a social media managerA social media manager plans what your business posts, writes it in your voice, answers the people who reply, and tells you each month what moved. The national median wage for the occupation the Bureau of Labor Statistics files this work under is $78,760 a year ($37.87 an hour). Allying does the job priced off the salary you post (about $1,969 a month at that median) and does the first week of it, in your brand, before any call.
- How to hire a translatorYour homepage, your ten top products and your returns page in the Spanish your customers write, beside the English, before anyone at Allying asks you for a call: that is what this job's first week looks like. A translator makes your store, your product pages, your help center, your canned replies and your emails read as your company in the language your customers already write in, and the median pay for interpreters and translators was $60,170 a year in May 2025. Allying does this job off the posting you already wrote, priced off the salary in it (about $1,504 a month at that median).
- How to hire a video editorPost the job with your monthly quota, your channels and where your footage comes from in the first three lines, and expect to pay around the national median of $75,420 a year for a film and video editor, before benefits. Allying does this job off the posting you already wrote, priced off the salary in it (about $1,886 a month at that median), and the first week of the work, twelve finished cuts from footage you already have, is done and waiting on a private page before anyone asks you for a call.
- How to hire a web and tools developerA web developer in the United States earns a median of $92,650 a year and a web and digital interface designer $104,000, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2025 count. A small business rarely posts for either by name; it posts for the person who will finally build the thing: the mobile menu, the booking page that works on a phone, the report that takes a Saturday, the form that lands where someone will see it. Allying does that job priced off the salary you post, with a monthly minimum of $1,395, and does the first week before any call with you.
- How to hire a website designerPost the job with the platform you already pay for named in the first line, and expect to pay around the national median of $104,000 a year for a web and digital interface designer, or $92,650 for a web developer, before benefits. Allying does this job off the posting you already wrote, priced off the salary in it (a posting at the 25th percentile, $73,290, is about $1,832 a month), and the first week of the work is done and waiting on a private page before anyone asks you for a call.