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 loaded the vendor's own page in a real browser and read the price off it on the verifiedOn date shown next to the entry. All 14 priced rows carry that label after the 2026-09-14 pass.

Changes captured in that pass: Globalization Partners now publishes an EOR rate at globalization-partners.com/pricing/ and moves out of quote-only. Pebl (Velocity Global rebranded on 9 September 2025) also moves out of quote-only, publishing a flat per-employee fee at hellopebl.com/eor-pricing/ in place of the 8-15%-of-salary model it used before the rebrand; its old /pricing URL now returns 404 and our source link has been repointed. Deel has withdrawn the higher Enterprise EOR tier it published in August, leaving one rate. Remote.com no longer publishes the discounted annual-commitment rate, so the row now shows the single rate on the page. Skuad is presented as Payoneer Workforce Management and publishes one starting rate rather than a band.

Industry-reported means the vendor publishes pricing publicly but every vendor-owned page carrying the figure refused to render for us, leaving us triangulating from named secondary sources. No row carries that label right now. Justworks came close: justworks.com/pricing still returns only its cookie shell to an automated browser, but the same figure is published on two other Justworks-owned pages we did read, so the row is live-verified against those and the source link points at the page that actually shows the price.

Quote-only means the vendor publishes no per-employee price anywhere public. Rippling and Safeguard Global fall here. We do not substitute an “industry-reported $xxx” estimate. Four vendors have now gone from quote-only to publishing a rate while we have been tracking them (Deel, Atlas HXM, G-P, Pebl), and in each case the analyst estimates circulating beforehand were not reliably close to the rate the vendor eventually published. The honest answer for the remaining two is that 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: under $350/mo. Flat fee, narrower service envelope. Suited to small teams.
• Mid: $350-799/mo. Full EOR with HR depth, integrations, statutory policy support.
• Enterprise: $800/mo and above. High-touch, multi-country bundles, custom contracts.

Two boundaries moved on 2026-09-14. The lean floor dropped from $199 to accommodate Native Teams at $99, and the mid floor dropped from $400 to $350 because Pebl began publishing at $399, which fell into the gap between the old bands. The bands are now contiguous so no published rate can land outside all three. No provider we track currently publishes a rate in the enterprise band; the vendors that position there quote privately.

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, and every row re-checked immediately whenever any single figure is found to be wrong. 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 provider verification pass: 2026-09-14, triggered by a written correction from Multiplier.

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.