Short answer: Ryz staff augmentation rates typically run $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month. Mid-level engineers (comparable to Amazon L5) are $7,000 to $10,000 a month, senior engineers (comparable to Amazon L6) are $10,000 to $15,000, and leads start at $15,000, quoted per team. To budget a project, multiply team size by duration by the monthly rate.
Most staff augmentation firms do not publish a rate card. You fill in a form, take a call and get a number later. We publish ours because a buyer comparing vendors should be able to do the arithmetic before the first meeting. This page explains what the monthly rate covers, what moves it up or down, how to turn it into a budget, and what other vendors publish about their own pricing.
We're Ryz Labs. Our senior engineers work on your team, on US business hours, and only the top 1% of the tens of thousands of engineers we interview make it. Many of them are based in Latin America, which is what gives you real-time overlap with US teams.
These are our typical monthly prices per engineer by seniority. Every engagement is a custom quote, scoped per team, so treat these as the range your quote will usually land in.
"Comparable to Amazon L5 and L6" is a seniority benchmark, not a claim about where our engineers worked. For reference, Levels.fyi's self-reported total pay for Amazon software engineers runs from about $253K (25th percentile) to $364K at L5 and from $350K to $523K at L6 (October 2026).
Seniority moves the rate more than anything else. A senior engineer costs more per month than a mid-level one, but usually needs less review, unblocks themselves and makes design decisions your leads would otherwise make. For a team with a thin bench of senior people, adding one senior engineer often does more than adding two mid-level ones.
Our quotes are scoped by seniority, stack, team size and duration. A React or Node.js engineer joining a mature codebase is a different search from an engineer who has run Kafka at scale, migrated a mainframe batch job or shipped an LLM retrieval pipeline to production. Narrower experience takes longer to find and tends to sit higher in the range.
One engineer joining an existing squad is the simplest case. Once you add several people, you usually need someone to hold the technical thread, which is why leads are quoted per team rather than per head. A team of four senior engineers with no lead and a team of four with a lead are priced differently because they do different jobs.
Duration does not change the monthly rate on its own, but it changes the total. It also changes what you should buy: for a three-month push, senior people who ramp fast are worth the premium; for a long engagement, a mix of senior and mid-level engineers is often the better value.
A low hourly rate from a team eight hours away can cost more in practice. Pull requests wait overnight, questions take a day to answer and standups happen at someone's midnight. Our engineers work US business hours, including New York hours, so you get same-day code review and real-time overlap with US teams.
Compare what each quote covers, not only the headline number. Our monthly rate covers sourcing, vetting and a free replacement if an engineer isn't the right fit. The client owns all code and IP our engineers produce, we sign your NDA before we share profiles or start work, and engineers work in your accounts (repos, cloud, tools), so you control access and can revoke it at any time.
The arithmetic is simple: total cost = team size × duration in months × monthly rate per engineer. Work it out per level, then add a lead if the team needs one.
Worked example. You need two senior back-end engineers and two mid-level full-stack engineers for six months.
Add a lead at $15,000+ a month and the monthly total becomes $49,000+, or $294,000+ over six months. A single senior engineer for three months is 1 × 3 × $10,000 to $15,000 = $30,000 to $45,000. Plug your own headcount into the talent cost savings calculator to compare it with an in-house hire.
Staff augmentation is one of several ways to add engineering capacity. The cost structures differ, so compare the total cost of getting the work done, not the headline rate.
The in-house comparison is the one most buyers make. BLS's June 2026 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation release shows wages at 68.5% of total compensation for private-industry management, professional and related workers, so a salary is roughly two thirds of what an employee actually costs before recruiting time and empty-seat weeks.
Most of our competitors do not publish a rate card. These are the figures they do publish, quoted as their own claims. We have not verified them, and they are not like-for-like with each other or with us.
For a side-by-side of each vendor, see our guide to IT staff augmentation companies and the pricing breakdowns for Revelo, Toptal and BairesDev.
Ryz typically charges $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, mostly for mid-level to senior people. Every engagement is a custom quote, scoped per team.
Ryz engineers work on your team, reporting to your leads. Talk to us to scope your team. Read how staff augmentation with Ryz works, or browse senior software engineers by role.
If you want a self-serve freelance marketplace, hourly short gigs or a trial before talking to anyone, a marketplace will suit you better. If you need engineers in European or Asian time zones, or follow-the-sun coverage, look at global networks.
With Ryz, typically $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month: $7,000 to $10,000 for mid-level engineers and $10,000 to $15,000 for senior engineers, with leads from $15,000 quoted per team. Other vendors price differently and most do not publish rates, so compare what each quote includes.
Multiply team size by duration in months by the monthly rate for each level, then add a lead if the team needs one. Two senior engineers for four months is 2 × 4 × $10,000 to $15,000, or $80,000 to $120,000.
It depends on the role and how long you need it. A salary is only part of an employee's cost: BLS data puts wages at 68.5% of total compensation for professional workers, before recruiting time and empty-seat weeks. Staff augmentation removes the hiring work and lets you scale up or down, which matters most for projects with a clear end date.
You do. The client always owns all code and IP our engineers produce, engineers work in your accounts, and you control and can revoke their access at any time. We will sign your NDA before we share profiles or start work.
Vendor figures were checked on October 2, 2026. Ryz prices are typical ranges by seniority; your quote is scoped per team.
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