Relocate them to the United States
- Annual salary
- $120,000 – $150,000
- Visa and immigration fees
- $100,000+ per petition
- Relocation
- $10,000 – $30,000
- Time to productive
- 12 – 18 months
- Certainty of outcome
- A lottery
- First-year total
- $250,000+
The India advantage
Bridge91 · India
The world's most capable talent market, and not only a technical one.
Companies usually arrive here having spent a year trying to move somebody to the United States. India is where that role could have been filled in three days — and it is not only engineers who are available.
- 1.5M
- graduates entering the workforce each year across engineering alone
- 5.4M
- working technology professionals, and a far larger commercial workforce beside them
- 5.5h
- of working overlap with the United Kingdom, with a real morning window to the US east coast
- 3
- from a signed agreement to a person legally employed and on payroll
Roles companies hire in India through Bridge91
The real numbers
The same person, hired two ways.
Relocating someone to the United States and employing them in India are not close on cost, on certainty, or on how long you wait.
Hire them in India, through Bridge91
- Annual salary
- $25,000 – $45,000
- Visa and immigration fees
- None
- Relocation
- None
- Time to productive
- 3 working days
- Certainty of outcome
- Certain
- First-year total
- $30,000 – $60,000
Up to $220,000 back, in year one.
Indicative market ranges for a senior professional, current as at 2026. Your figures depend on the role, the seniority and the state. We will model yours on a call.
Why it works
Built for global teams.
The arithmetic is only half of it. These are the reasons companies stay after the first hire works out.
English is the working language
India has the largest English-speaking professional workforce in the world. There is no translation layer between your team and theirs, in writing or on a call.
The overlap is workable
Indian Standard Time gives roughly five and a half hours of overlap with the United Kingdom and most of Europe, and a real morning window with the US east coast. Standups happen live.
The depth is not only technical
India graduates around 1.5 million engineers a year into a market of some 5.4 million working technology professionals — and it also produces one of the world’s largest pools of qualified accountants, analysts, designers and commercial staff. You are not limited to engineering.
Working with distributed teams is normal
Indian professionals have worked with companies in other countries since the 1990s. Remote collaboration is not something you have to teach.
Staying is attractive
A well-run role with an international company is a good job in India. Attrition is manageable when the work and the employer are serious.
The market is growing, not shrinking
India is projected to become the world’s third largest economy this decade. The talent pool you hire from next year will be deeper than this year’s, not thinner.
Talk to us
Tell us who you want to hire.
Thirty minutes, no obligation, no pitch. Bring one role and the salary you have in mind. You will leave the call knowing what it costs, what it obliges you to, and how soon it can happen.
Or email contact@bridge91.com — we reply within four business hours.