Hire PHP and Laravel developers in Brazil
Laravel and PHP engineers from Brazil cost $3,500 per month at mid-level and $4,900 at senior, full time. PHP salaries are lower everywhere, which makes the arbitrage smaller than for React or Java — we will say that plainly rather than pretend the savings are identical across stacks.
| What you compare | U.S. hire | Through HireBrazilDevs |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost, senior | $12,500 loaded | $4,900 |
| Recruiting fee | 15–25% of first-year salary | None |
| Time to first candidates | 3–6 weeks | 5–15 business days |
| Notice period | At-will, plus severance in practice | 30 days |
| Payroll and benefits | Yours to run | One invoice |
U.S. figure: BLS median for software developers ($135,980, May 2025) adjusted by our estimated multiplier for PHP / Laravel (0.88×), plus 25% for payroll tax and benefits. The BLS figure is official; the multiplier is our estimate. Full methodology.
Why Brazil for PHP / Laravel
PHP still runs a large share of Brazilian small-business software, agencies and e-commerce, and Laravel consolidated that world into something modern. The pool is enormous and the quality range is wide — wider than any other stack we hire for — so the screening here is stricter, not looser.
What a PHP / Laravel engineer will own
- Laravel applications: queues, jobs, Eloquent, the parts that break at scale
- Modernize legacy PHP — procedural code, PHP 5, no tests — without a rewrite
- WooCommerce and custom e-commerce backends
- API layers in front of a database designed by someone who left in 2016
How we screen PHP and Laravel developers
Every candidate goes through the same three checks before you see the profile.
- Refactor a fat controller — we watch where they choose to put the logic
- Eloquent query that loads a thousand rows to count them; fix it
- Introduce tests into an untested legacy file
Stack they typically work with
LaravelMySQL / PostgreSQLRedisLivewirePHPUnitDocker
Related skills
Teams that hire PHP and Laravel developers usually pair them with one of these. The rate is the same for all of them.
Rates and what they include are on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
Is PHP a reasonable choice for a new product in 2026?
For a CRUD-heavy business application with a small team, Laravel is a defensible and fast choice. For real-time or ML-adjacent products, it is not, and we will tell you so before selling you the engineer.
Tell us the role. We come back with candidates.
Send the role in writing, get a written scope back within one business day, then vetted profiles within five. No sales call, no fee to ask, no retainer, no exclusivity.