According to the information we were able to gather, Guatemala still not ready for offshore outsourcing.  Although, there is a great need for qualified IT workforce specially in the medium and small companies, they are still not ready to pay the price of a qualified work force from other countries (even if the prices are lower than the prices currently paid in the United States).  Currently hourly rates for Guatemalan IT consultants are between $20 to $50 US dollars.

On the other hand, the Guatemalan IT work forced could be tempted to offer IT services to American or European companies paying better rates that the currently being paid by Guatemalan Companies.  If so, this could be very dangerous for the IT future of Guatemala. 

However, as technology companies look overseas for cost savings, jobs such as entering data, even at salaries that would seem tiny in the United States could reshape national growth strategies and alter millions of lives.   Developing nations eager for U.S. investment may spend more on telecommunications to keep their prices for high-speed Internet access low.  "Telecommunications deregulation," will become a key economic debate." 

For many Americans, such a job would be considered tedious, not a lofty goal toward which one would strive.  But in Guatemala, getting a relatively well-paying, safe, dependable job is a success in its own right.