Help, I'm getting killed by international wire-transfer fees

Have a look at this company it might be a lot cheaper http://www.xe.com/fx/

Wow, that's quite expensive. As another poster mentioned, looking into a currency exchange service such as xe.com would be a good idea. Essentially you do an ACH transfer to them and then they do a transfer to the recipients bank account. Not only is the transfer cheaper than a wire, but you should get a better exchange rate.

You could solve it the way that my employers have: take your end of the cost out of their invoice.... I didn't think it was the best solution ever, but I honestly didn't have enough leverage to do anything about it, either. I'll probably just bill more next time =p

xe is awesome.. been using them for 10 years now

can you use western union?

Generally speaking, that's even worse than bank transfers...