How we verify the numbers on this site

Provider pricing falls into three categories: live-verified, industry-reported, and quote-only. Each provider row on the site carries one of these labels.

Live-verified means we fetched the price directly from the provider's pricing page on the verifiedOn date shown next to the entry. Notable 2025-26 changes captured in this verification pass: Deel and Atlas HXM moved from quote-only to publishing per-employee pricing on public pages. Velocity Global rebranded to Pebl on 9 September 2025 (velocityglobal.com 301-redirects to hellopebl.com) and Pebl now publishes neither a flat rate nor a percentage — its previous 8-15%-of-salary model has been replaced with a custom-quote flow, so Pebl is reclassified to quote-only.

Industry-reported means the provider publishes per-employee pricing publicly but their pricing page blocked automated fetching during our verification pass (HTTP 403, anti-bot detection). The figure is triangulated from 2026 third-party reviews and Multiplier-owned indexed content. Multiplier and Justworks fall in this category and are flagged at the row level.

Quote-only means the provider does not publish per-employee pricing publicly. Rippling, Globalization Partners, Safeguard Global, and Pebl fall here. We do not cite "industry-reported $xxx" estimates for quote-only providers — the two providers we could directly compare (Deel and Atlas, where analyst-cited and now-published figures were both available) showed analyst estimates were not reliably directional. The honest answer for these vendors is: you must get a direct quote.

We list providers, including those we cannot fully verify, because pretending they don't exist would make the reference less useful. The label tells you what we know versus what we infer.

The statutory employer burden for each country is the sum of mandatory employer-side contributions: pension, social security, health, unemployment, workers' compensation, and analogous taxes. It does not include income tax withholding (that comes out of the employee's gross).

Each country page carries a verificationMethod label: primary means the revenue authority page (HMRC, IRS, CPF Board, Belastingdienst, etc.) was fetched directly on the verifiedOn date; secondary means the authority's site blocked automated fetching (most revenue authorities do) and the rate was triangulated from at least two independent sources that cite the authority — typically established EOR providers' country policy briefs plus reputable third-party tax databases.

Material changes captured in this verification pass: UK employer NIC raised from 13.8% to 15% with the secondary threshold dropped from £9,100 to £5,000 (April 2025 Budget); Australia Super Guarantee at 12% from 1 July 2025; Spain added MEI (0.75%) and contingencias profesionales (1.3%); Philippines SSS rose to 10% under the 2025 reform; Mexico's RCV pension contribution on a glide path from 5.15% (2023) to 13.875% (2030), at ~8.7% in 2026; Netherlands AOF replaced WIA categorisation with a low/high split.

We cross-check against the OECD Statutory Tax & Social Contribution Database where available. Where national rates differ from OECD-published rates (most commonly because OECD averages aggregate sub-national rates), we use the national rate and note the difference.

The eight charges listed on the home page and calculator (deposit, FX margin, statutory benefits buffer, onboarding, compliance amendments, off-cycle payments, termination, equity admin) are drawn from publicly available master service agreements, customer complaints in industry forums, and disclosed line items in invoice screenshots posted publicly.

We list a charge as “typical” only if at least three independent sources confirm it. The percentages and dollar ranges are the median of disclosed amounts, not the worst case. If your provider does not charge a given fee, that's good — most charge at least four of the eight.

We classify providers into three tiers by their published lean-employee monthly fee:

• Lean: $199-349/mo. Flat fee, narrower service envelope. Suited to small teams.
• Mid: $400-700/mo. Full EOR with HR depth, integrations, statutory policy support.
• Enterprise: $800-1,200+/mo. High-touch, multi-country bundles, custom contracts.

These tiers describe published list price. They do not directly correlate with quality. A lean-tier provider with strong local presence in your hiring country may serve you better than a mid-tier provider with a thin operation there. Reference the verified pricing page links to compare service depth before deciding.

EORCost.com is published by Digital Signet. Digital Signet does not sell EOR services, payroll services, HR software, or compliance consulting. We do not accept sponsored placements that influence pricing claims or methodology, and there are no affiliate links to any EOR provider anywhere on this site.

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If you spot something on this site that looks like it favours one provider, or pricing that you can demonstrate is incorrect, email hello@digitalsignet.com with the source URL and the correction. We update within seven days.

Provider verified pricing: re-checked quarterly. OECD statutory burden data: refreshed annually after OECD's January publication. Country revenue authority figures: re-checked when the authority publishes a rate change or annually if no change is announced. Last full verification pass: June 2026.

We do not give legal, tax, or HR advice. The numbers here are a sanity-check reference before you commission a written quote from one or more EOR providers and review their contracts with your own advisors.

Provider mentions are nominative fair use (NKOTB v News America, 971 F.2d 302, 9th Cir. 1992; Toyota v Tabari, 610 F.3d 1171, 9th Cir. 2010). We use minimum-necessary identifiers and do not imply endorsement.