Hasta La Motion!

So I just lost my roto artist job. Several of us lost it as well. We speculate that it is because either our clients are going to Indian firms directly or our small vfx studio is going directly to indian studios.

I don’t want to start another thread of outsourcing bashing, or another thread about the pro’s and con’s of outsourcing. But does anyone know how much the Indian Firms bill their US clients at for Compositing and Roto work?

I read that indian artists are paid at about $1/hour. But surely the Indian studios that hire these artists are not billing the US client at $1/hour or $2/hour. I imagine it is closer to $25/hour because they have to absorb other costs like Software license, rent, insurance etc.

Does anyone know the billing rate of Indian Studios to US clients?