After a few bad experiences with Paypal, I always use wire transfer when paying someone else or being paid as a freelancer... It works well, it's more often than not cheaper than Paypal and anyone who has a bank account can receive wire transfers.
Plus, you have to convert to a business account (additionally to having to send a lot of different documents to prove your identity) if the amount is more than 2800$ and then it's 3.5% fee.
So yes internally in the US paypal is cheap but once you go cross border it's expensive and it's a headache