From my personal experience, I got remote job offers (with competitive western salary) in two ways: - via my network (so people/clients I have worked with befo

From my personal experience, I got remote job offers (with competitive western salary) in two ways: - via my network (so people/clients I have worked with before on site have approached me with extra work and new projects) - from my open source contributions (some of my projects on github and my contributions led to me being emailed by interesting companies) So I would forget about "looking" for remote work online. I don't think you'll randomly find anything which pays well. What I suggest is to: 1) (if you are a consultant) build a network of clients and acquaintances by working on projects onsite. It's likely there will be more work you will get reached out to about. And then you are in position to arrange remote work as they have already worked with you and there is a trust between the two parties. 2) Contribute to open source and work on interesting projects/libraries in your free time. You never know which company will end up using your work and reach out to you with job offers. Often they will be ok with remote work too.