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 | $12,200 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 ($133,080, May 2024) 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.
Pricing
Mid-level engineer
3–5 years of experience
Full time · about $22/hour equivalent
Ships well-scoped features independently. Needs a defined backlog.
U.S. equivalent costs about $12,604/month loaded — you save 72%.
Senior engineer
6–10 years of experience
Full time · about $31/hour equivalent
Owns a service or product area end to end. Reviews others’ code.
U.S. equivalent costs about $16,458/month loaded — you save 70%.
Tech lead / staff engineer
10+ years of experience
Full time · about $40/hour equivalent
Sets architecture, leads a squad, interfaces with your stakeholders.
U.S. equivalent costs about $19,896/month loaded — you save 68%.
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.
A 20-minute call to scope the role, then vetted profiles within five business days. No fee to talk, no retainer, no exclusivity.