Most businesses have never considered Egypt for remote talent. That's exactly why it works. Here's why we've built our entire company around the professionals coming out of Cairo and Alexandria.
After a decade of testing talent pools across Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, we kept coming back to one place. Here's why.
Egypt's top universities. AUC, BUE, GUC, MIU. Are accredited by U.S. or U.K. bodies. Graduates learn in English, follow Western curricula, and earn degrees that compete with any in the Anglosphere.
English is the language of instruction at Egypt's best schools, from high school through university. Our team members speak at near native level, many with neutral or American accents.
Cairo is 7 hours ahead of EST and 10 hours ahead of PST. Our team works evenings in Cairo. Which means they're live and responsive during the exact hours your business runs.
Egyptian professional culture prizes reliability, long term relationships, and taking pride in one's work. Our team members stay with the same client for years. Not weeks.
Because Egypt's cost of living is dramatically lower than the U.S., our talent can earn above market local salaries while costing you a fraction of a U.S. hire. Everyone wins.
Egyptians consume American media, work with Western brands, and understand how business is done in the U.S. That cultural literacy shows up in every email, call, and project.
Other agencies hand you a resume and disappear. Trusty is a managed service. Every placement comes with the full stack below. At no extra charge.
A single point of contact who knows your business and manages your team day to day.
We source to your exact role spec. Not a pre built roster. Every search is run from scratch.
Resume, voice sample, skills test, references, and a video intro. All before you interview.
We handle every touchpoint. Scheduling, updates, feedback loops, all the way until the offer is signed.
1099 structure, SOWs, international payroll. All handled. You receive one clean invoice.
Our name opens doors in the Cairo talent market. The best candidates apply to Trusty first.
Weekly check ins, performance reviews, raise planning. We stay in the loop for the life of the hire.
If it's not working out in the first six months, we replace the hire. At no additional cost.
Every Trusty professional graduated from a university accredited or partnered with U.S., U.K., Canadian, German, French, or Japanese institutions. Here are 16 of the schools our team comes from.
Founded in 1919. Accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The same body that accredits Columbia and NYU. Courses taught entirely in English. Widely considered the top liberal arts university in the Arab world.
Operated in partnership with the U.K. degrees validated by Loughborough, London South Bank, and Queen Margaret universities. Graduates receive dual BUE + U.K. institution credentials. Strong in engineering, business, and pharmacy.
Established in partnership with the University of Ulm and Stuttgart. Delivers European standard engineering and computer science programs. Graduates often move into top tech and engineering roles across the Middle East and Europe.
English language liberal arts university with strong programs in business administration, mass communication, and pharmaceutical sciences. Affiliations with U.S. and Canadian institutions for exchange and faculty programs.
Private research university with programs benchmarked to U.S. and European standards. Specializes in engineering, computer science, and business administration. Graduates frequently recruited by multinationals operating in Egypt.
Partnered with the University of Greenwich (UK). Graduates receive both MSA and University of Greenwich degrees. Strong in dentistry, pharmacy, engineering, and mass communication.
Egypt's flagship public university, founded 1908. Consistently ranked Egypt's #1 institution in the QS World Rankings. Its Faculties of Engineering, Medicine, and Economics & Political Science are the training ground for the country's highest performing graduates.
One of Egypt's largest public universities. Its Faculty of Al Alsun (Languages) is legendary. Producing the country's best simultaneous interpreters and translators. Strong in medicine, law, and engineering as well.
Egypt's second oldest public university, founded 1938. Internationally known for medicine, engineering, and maritime sciences. Its graduates dominate the Mediterranean logistics, energy, and health tech industries.
Founded by Nobel Laureate Dr. Ahmed Zewail. Egypt's elite research university. Full merit based admission, English medium instruction, world class labs. A pipeline for Egypt's top engineers, physicists, and biotech researchers.
The Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport. ABET accredited engineering programs, specialized in logistics, maritime, computer science, and business. A regional powerhouse affiliated with the Arab League.
Non profit research university built on the U.S. model. Credit hour system, English instruction, strong in computer science, AI, business, and biotechnology. Collaborations with Carnegie Mellon, NTU Singapore, and the University of Michigan.
Academic partner of University College London (UCL). Programs in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and business developed with UCL faculty. Among the most selective private universities in Egypt.
Joint venture with 12 leading Japanese universities including Waseda, Kyoto, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Research intensive. Top talent in materials science, robotics, energy, and mechanical engineering.
Academic partner with Cape Breton University (Canada). Students earn CIC + Canadian BA/BBA credentials. Strong in business administration, mass communication, and architecture.
The French University in Egypt. Programs co accredited by French institutions including Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and Université de Haute Alsace. Strong trilingual (French/English/Arabic) graduates in engineering, management, and languages.
Founded by the SEKEM initiative. A distinct interdisciplinary model focused on sustainability, pharmacy, business, and engineering. Graduates are known for their systems thinking approach and cross functional capability.
Here is the part no one talks about. The salaries we pay inside Egypt are three to four times the national median household income. Your contractor isn't struggling. They're one of the highest paid people on their block. And it's still far less than what you would spend on a US hire.
The national median. The baseline a typical household in Egypt lives on across the entire year.
240,000 to 360,000 EGP per year. Roughly three to four times the national median household income for a single hire.
Dramatically below US market rate. A win on every side of the table. Our people are paid well. You save tens of thousands.
Egyptian median household income reported by CAPMAS (Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics). Trusty contractor compensation figures are ranges based on role, experience, and scope of work.
Trusty doesn't post to a job board and hope. We employ a full team of senior Egyptian headhunters based in Cairo. People who grew up in the local universities, who know the professors, who follow graduating classes, and who have networks no foreign agency can replicate.
The single biggest objection we hear from US clients is: "Won't my customers notice the accent?" The answer, almost always: no.
Egyptian talent is taught in English from grade school through university. Many have lived abroad, studied in the U.S., or worked at multinational firms in Egypt. Most have neutral accents that sound more "East Coast American" than Arabic.
Before you ever meet a candidate, we send you a short recorded English sample. You'll hear them speak before you invest a minute interviewing them.
Cairo sits at UTC+2. Meaning it overlaps beautifully with U.S. business hours. A typical Trusty team member starts their day in the late afternoon in Cairo, and works through until the next morning.
That matches your 9 to 5 on EST with perfect overlap, and still gives you 6+ productive hours of overlap on PST. No "async" excuses. No "we'll respond tomorrow." Live Slack. Live Zoom. Live phones.
Cairo: 4 PM to 12 AM, overlapping the full U.S. workday.
Cairo: 5 PM to 1 AM. Full overlap, so your team stays with you until close of business.
Cairo: 7 PM to 3 AM. 6 hours of live overlap. Plus your team starts your day early with work completed.
This isn't exploitation. It's arbitrage in the good sense of the word. Well paid work for exceptional professionals, dramatic savings for growing businesses.
A full time US Executive Assistant costs $60K to $90K/year after benefits and payroll tax. The same role at Trusty runs around $21,000 a year, all in. That's $50,000+ per hire, per year, back to your bottom line.
Multiply that across even 2 to 3 roles and you've funded growth, new markets, or your next product launch. Without ever cutting corners on talent.
Our professionals earn two to three times what they'd earn at a comparable Egyptian firm, often more. We pay on time, in USD, every cycle. That's life changing money in Cairo.
We also provide ongoing training, upskilling, and career progression. Many of our team members stay with us, and with your business, for 5+ years.