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Outsourcing to Egypt. Costed before you start.

Egypt’s offshoring industry exported $5.2 billion of services in 2025, and about 195,000 people work in its exporting companies (ITIDA). GrowAxis gives growing companies in Europe, the Gulf and North America dedicated developers, tech and support specialists in Cairo who work inside their team, while GrowAxis employs, equips and manages them. The calculator below shows what your team would cost.

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How embedded teams work

01Estimate

What a team in Egypt costs

Pick the roles, or type the pay you have in mind. The calculator applies Egypt’s 2026 social insurance and salary tax and shows the monthly cost of each person in your currency.

Role 1
Role 2

Rates are set in US dollars; other currencies use the Central Bank of Egypt’s dollar rate on 3 November 2026, the riyal and dirham through their dollar pegs. Change them to today’s.

GrowAxis all-in monthly rate per role
RolePeopleAll-in rate a person, a month
Mid-level full-stack developer2USD 2,300
Mid-level QA engineer1USD 2,100
A month, 3 people
USD 6,700
A year
USD 80,400
People
3
What the rate includes
  • All in: pay, Egypt’s social insurance and salary tax handling, equipment and management, from $1,500 a month per person.
  • Rates differ by role and level; the free 30-minute growth assessment sets the scope, and the proposal after it confirms the price before anything starts.
  • Not tax or legal advice.

02Who it’s for

Built for founders who…

  • …need developers, tech or support people you can’t find locally

  • …want people who work in your hours, inside your team

  • …want to know what it costs before you commit

03What’s included

What you can outsource to Egypt with GrowAxis

  1. 01

    Software development

    Backend, frontend, full-stack and mobile developers who join your repositories and sprints.

  2. 02

    Tech roles

    QA engineers, DevOps and cloud engineers, data analysts and UI/UX designers.

  3. 03

    Customer support

    Support specialists in your helpdesk, in English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

  4. 04

    Marketing and business development

    SEO, performance marketing, content, research and outreach, in your tools.

  5. 05

    Employment in Egypt

    GrowAxis is the employer: contracts, payroll, social insurance, tax, equipment and licences.

  6. 06

    Management and reporting

    Performance reviews with you, time tracking, and weekly and monthly reports.

Project vendor

Who finds the people
The vendor
Who employs them
The vendor
Who directs the work
The vendor
What you set up
A contract
Best for
A fixed project

Employer of record

Who finds the people
You
Who employs them
The EOR
Who directs the work
You
What you set up
A contract
Best for
One person you already found

Own company

Who finds the people
You
Who employs them
You
Who directs the work
You
What you set up
A company, payroll and an office
Best for
A large, long-term team

GrowAxis embedded team

Who finds the people
GrowAxis, with you
Who employs them
GrowAxis
Who directs the work
You
What you set up
A contract
Best for
Growing teams that want dedicated people

04Rules

Egypt as an outsourcing market, 2026

Offshoring exports
$5.2 billion in 2025, from 252 companies running 282 delivery centres (ITIDA, August 2026).
People
About 195,300 people worked in Egypt’s exporting outsourcing and tech companies in June 2026 (ITIDA).
Time zones
Cairo is one hour ahead of Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels and two hours ahead of London for most of the year, seven hours ahead of New York, and one hour behind Riyadh in winter (the same time in summer). Egypt uses summer time from the last Friday of April to the last Thursday of October.
GrowAxis rates
A mid-level software engineer costs about $2,500 a month in 2026, all in: pay, social insurance, equipment and management. No role is below $1,500.
Employer social insurance
18.75% of the insurable wage, which is capped at EGP 16,700 a month in 2026, so at most EGP 3,131 a month per person.
Labour law
Law 14 of 2025, in force since 1 September 2025, recognises remote work and requires a yearly raise of at least 3% of the insurable wage.
Who outsources here
Egypt’s offshoring sector counts 252 companies, 177 of them multinationals, and more than 195,000 specialists.
Graduates
About 750,000 university graduates join the labour market each year.
Export targets
ITIDA aims for $6.4 billion of outsourcing exports in 2026/27 and more than $8 billion by 2027/28, from $5.2 billion in 2025/26.
Reach
Egypt’s delivery centres serve clients in more than 100 countries.
New centres
At the Global Offshoring Summit in November 2025, ITIDA signed 55 agreements expected to create more than 75,000 jobs over three years: 39 companies expanding and 16 entering Egypt for the first time.
Subsea cables
18 submarine cables in service land in Egypt, at Alexandria, Abu Talat and Port Said on the Mediterranean and Suez, Zafarana, Ras Ghareb and Taba on the Red Sea side. Six more are planned.
Offshore CX Confidence Index 2025
Egypt ranked seventh with a confidence score of 80.9%. India was first with 93.9%. The index is published by Cognitive Copy and Ryan Strategic Advisory; the figures come from the Cabinet’s IDSC.
Where Egypt scores highest
Egypt’s 2025 sub-scores: security and safety 90.2%, infrastructure 86.9%, commercial real estate 84.2%, labour market availability 84.1% and business environment 81.5%.
Zero VAT on exported services
Services rendered remotely qualify for 0% VAT under Instruction 45 of 2025. The standard rate is 14%.
Cybersecurity rating
Egypt is in Tier 1, the top tier, of the ITU Global Cybersecurity Index 2024: one of 46 countries worldwide and seven in Africa.

Sources: ITIDA: Egypt offshoring exports hit $5.2B (August 2026); ITIDA: CEO on Egypt’s outsourcing growth; Mercans: 2026 insurable wage limits (NOSI); Andersen Egypt: Labour Law No. 14 of 2025; Clyde & Co: flexible working under Egypt’s new labour law; ITIDA: Egypt offshoring exports hit $5.2B (26 August 2026); ITIDA: CEO on Egypt’s outsourcing growth (22 September 2026); ITIDA: Egypt ICT Sector Outlook 2026; TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map: Egypt (checked 4 November 2026); Zawya (Arab Finance): IDSC on outsourcing exports and the Offshore CX Confidence Index 2025; PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries: Egypt, other taxes (reviewed 17 August 2026); Ecofin Agency: ITU names 7 African nations among top cybersecurity models (17 September 2024). A summary for planning, not legal advice.

05Egypt at a glance

Egypt at a glance, 2026

The numbers that decide whether Egypt fits, each from its source.

Offshoring exports, from 282 delivery centres run by 252 companies (ITIDA, August 2026)
$5.2B
People in exporting outsourcing and tech companies, June 2026
195,300
University graduates a year
750,000
Subsea cables in service landing in Egypt, with 6 more planned
18
Ahead of Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam for most of the year
+1 hour
A month, all in, for a mid-level software engineer at GrowAxis’s 2026 rates
$2,500

Sources: ITIDA: Egypt offshoring exports hit $5.2B (26 August 2026); TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map: Egypt (checked 4 November 2026); GrowAxis: Cairo time difference in 2026; GrowAxis: Egypt salary calculator, 2026 rates.

Already delivering from Egypt

Companies with delivery centres in Egypt, each linked to the public source that states it. They are not GrowAxis clients, and the logos remain their owners’ trademarks.

Outsourcing to Egypt 2026: the destination guide

The industry, talent and languages, costs by role, hours, the rules, who is already there and how to set up a team. PDF, 20 pages, free, no sign-up.

Download the full guide

06How it’s installed

Your team, in Cairo. Employed by GrowAxis.

You agree the roles, the profile and the goals with us. GrowAxis finds the people with you, you meet them, and they join your tools, meetings and sprints like any colleague. GrowAxis stays the employer in Egypt, runs contracts, payroll, social insurance and equipment, reviews performance with you and reports every week and month.

  1. Discovery call
  2. Roles and goals agreed
  3. You meet the people
  4. Onboarded into your tools
  5. Reviewed every month

Measured by

  • Output against agreed KPIs
  • Time to productivity
  • Work quality
  • Retention

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07FAQ

Outsourcing to Egypt: what founders ask first.

  • For many growing companies, yes: a large outsourcing industry ($5.2 billion of exports in 2025, according to ITIDA), working hours that overlap with Europe and the Gulf, English across the tech sector, Arabic for Middle East customers, and pay well below Western Europe and North America. Plan for currency moves: pay is set in Egyptian pounds.

  • At GrowAxis’s 2026 rates, a mid-level software engineer costs about $2,500 a month, all in: pay, social insurance, equipment and management. Juniors start at $1,500 and seniors cost about $6,940. The calculator on this page works it out for your roles.

  • Outsourcing hands a job to a vendor that runs it its own way. With an embedded team, the people work inside your company under your direction, while GrowAxis employs and manages them in Egypt.

  • No. GrowAxis is the employer in Egypt, so you don’t need an entity, a local bank account or a payroll provider there.

  • Software development, QA, DevOps and cloud, data and design, customer support in eight languages, and marketing and business development roles. Start with one person and grow into a team.

  • It exported $5.2 billion of services, ITIDA said in August 2026, from 252 companies running 282 delivery centres, 177 of them multinationals, and about 195,300 people worked in exporting companies in June 2026 (ITIDA). ITIDA aims for $6.4 billion in 2026/27.

  • Plan for two things: pay is set in Egyptian pounds, so your cost moves with the exchange rate, and Labour Law 14 of 2025 requires a raise of at least 3% of the insurable wage every year. The calculator on this page shows the cost in your currency.

  • Yes. 177 of the 252 offshoring companies in Egypt are multinationals (ITIDA, August 2026), and in November 2025 ITIDA signed 55 agreements for new or larger centres, expected to create more than 75,000 jobs over three years.

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