Deel is a well-established employer of record platform that enables companies to rapidly employ people in 150+ countries. Employers can expand internationally without ever needing to establish a new entity, allowing them to leverage the skills and knowledge of a global workforce.

Why I picked Deel: Deel offers free calculator tools to help you estimate the cost of an international worker. You can compare different country costs and see what benefits and withholdings are required. Deel uses local legal experts to generate compliant contracts and keep track of regulatory changes, and will ensure all legal obligations are met on your behalf.

The Deel platform offers end-to-end management of your team, from onboarding to termination. Their web app is user-friendly and provides a range of features to help businesses manage their workers effectively. These include international benefits, contract management, and expense tracking. Their integrated contract management function supports advanced customizations such as stipends, signing bonuses, and stock options.

The well-established business has launched several new offerings over the past year, including global payroll, global mobility support, integrated Slack tools, and advanced integrations. The global payroll offering brings in-house expertise, which can greatly help companies with existing payroll setups to streamline their accounting and reporting procedures.

Deel is known for its fast support. They offer 24/7 customer support and live chat. Compared to other EOR offerings, Deel stands out with local country experts that provide consultative approaches for each location you hire from. Many recognizable companies use Deel’s platform, including Reddit, Coinbase, and Dropbox.

Integrations are available to help you import and export HR data between popular accounting and reporting software solutions such as Ashby, BambooHR, Expensify, Greenhouse, Hibob, Netsuite, Okta, OneLogin, Quickbooks, SCIM, Xero, Workday, and Workable. The company has an Open API solution that allows developers to build their own interfaces on top of the Deel platform.

Deel offers flat-rate pricing. You can also request a free demo through their website to discuss your hiring needs.

Remofirst is a global EOR service provider on a mission to free employers from geographical boundaries so they can access global talent with ease. Their EOR platform is set up to help you hire and manage full-time employees or global contractors in 150+ countries, eliminating the need to set up a local entity in every country you want to source talent from.

Why I picked Remofirst: On top of their EOR services, Remofirst also provides international payroll and invoice management, global benefits management (including insurance and equity plans, plus time-off management), and employee support with obtaining visas and other immigration documentation. They can even help you with provisioning equipment to your distributed employees around the world.

Their global payroll services simplify the international payroll process, giving you the option to summarize and aggregate your invoices into one payment, rather than making multiple individual payments.

Remofirst’s software can also automatically calculate your team’s hours, time off, holidays, bonuses, and commissions so you don’t have to worry about it. Instead, you only need to review their monthly invoice and approve it for payment. Your employees will also appreciate being paid in their own local currency too.

Their team of legal experts and HR professionals will also ensure your business operations are always compliant with changing global regulations, with compliance documentation accessible at all times through your secure dashboard. Their customer support team is also available 24/7 in case you need additional help.

Remofirst’s global payroll services cost from $199/employee/month. They also offer a $19/month plan if you only need to pay global contractors. You can obtain their services with no hidden fees or fixed contract terms. All clients also receive a dedicated account manager as their main point of contact too.

Papaya Global is an automated, SaaS platform that provides an end-to-end global workforce management solution, which helps recruiters remove barriers to global hiring. Their software includes features for everything from onboarding to making cross-border payments in 160+ countries.

Why I picked Papaya Global: Their platform supports all employee types (payroll, EOR, and contractors), integrates with all management tools, and uses smart technology to eliminate errors and ensure compliance. It also creates a highly visible system for tracking payroll spending and real-time business intelligence (BI).

Papaya Global can help your company simplify global people management. Enterprises can access Papaya’s state-of-the-art automation, security, and BI without replacing their existing payroll system.

Papaya Global’s EOR service costs from $750/employee/month and offers a free trial. Their self-guided tour also walks you through how payroll professionals can use their technology to automate and manage their global payroll quickly and compliantly.

Rippling is an all-in-one HR, payroll, and IT platform for businesses and organizations with a global workforce. It allows you to run payroll easily, with each distributed team or employee paid in their local currency.

Why I picked Rippling: Rippling offers enterprise-grade security, scalability, and operational efficiency with its unified platform, allowing you to manage payroll and benefits, time tracking, as well as reporting for your entire workforce from a single location.

Additionally, Rippling’s payroll processing doesn’t require you to feed the system with employee data manually and doesn’t make manual calculations on employee salary. Everything is done automatically, as the system syncs all HR data with the payroll system. All you need to do is set the right pay periods for your employees, review the payroll, and approve it.

Rippling addresses GRC by providing built-in compliance tools, automated tax filings, accurate time tracking, and reporting features. The platform also automatically assigns required country-specific compliance training for EOR employees. This means you don’t have to figure out if a country requires employee compliance training. You don’t even have to find a separate system to enable that kind of training, since everything is handled by Rippling.

Pricing for Rippling is charged per user/month, and the actual cost of implementing the platform will depend on the services included in the package.

Foxhire handles a comprehensive range of Employer of Record services in over 100 countries. Their core services including financial, administrative, insurance, and legal matters. All employee personnel and administrative functions can be handled, including payroll, timesheets, and benefits administration.

Why I picked Foxhire: Their EOR services also include employee onboarding, background checks, drug screening, and fingerprinting. Foxhire will also manage workers’ compensation, deal with unemployment claims, and handle employee terminations.

Other areas covered include health benefits administration, employment contracts, immigration matters, tax compliance, immigration authorizations, and IRS compliance.

Foxhire offers customized pricing upon request, as well as a free demo.

Remote is a global HR solution for distributed teams that was founded in 2019 by Job van de Voort and Marcelo Lebre to simplify how companies employ global talent. They offer international employment of record services and are used by companies like DoorDash, HelloFresh, GitLab, Paystack, and others.

Remote can help you hire contractors or employees, run payroll, offer benefits, and expand your business globally.

Why I picked Remote: Remote helps companies become global powerhouses by expanding their access to talent beyond their borders, allowing them to hire anyone from anywhere. Thousands of businesses rely on Remote’s modern platform and legal, financial, and cultural expertise to onboard, pay, and manage employees and contractors in 150+ countries.

Remote integrates with the most powerful HR systems like Greenhouse, BambooHR, and AngelList Talent to seamlessly connect people and payroll data across the entire HR tech stack.

Remote’s EOR plans start at $299/employee/month. They also have a Contractor Management plan that costs from $29/contractor/month.

Safeguard Global offers a centralized global payroll solution for enterprise-level organizations. Using the Employer of Record services, corporations can expand into over 165 international markets in weeks.

Safeguard Global integrates fully with Workday to provide a complete Employer of Record solution. The aim is to give multi-national companies an edge in global competition for talent. The system encompasses payslips, expenses, accounting, and time tracking. The result is a cost-effective, one-stop solution for global staffing—all in accordance with local employment laws.

This platform integrates with Workday, Collaborative Solutions, Renew HR, IBM & Trinet.

Safeguard Global offers customized pricing on request.

Headway is a provider of customized employer of record services for payroll and taxes to compliance and risk mitigation. Headway has been in business for over forty years with the sole focus of supporting US-based companies. Their dedication to supporting US businesses has made them an expert in the intricacies of United States law and regulations.

Services include but are not limited to, payroll processing, creating, maintaining, and terminating employment contracts, employee onboarding, maintaining insurance, running background checks, and benefits administration. Businesses will benefit from eliminating employer liability and worker’s compensation risk, offloading HR administration, nationwide employer compliance, analytical insights into labor spending, and relieving your payroll burden.

Headway offers pricing information upon request.

Velocity Global aims to manage the complexities of dealing with distributed teams. The Global Work Platform helps you hire talent, improve onboarding, pay your teams and ensure compliance.

As an Employer of Record, Velocity Global can help you hire employees in all 50 US states, as well as in 185 other countries. Services include risk mitigation, legal compliance, and day-to-day control of employees.

Velocity Global offers 24/7 support and provides each client with a dedicated service manager. The goal is to ensure your business remains current with all tax matters and labor laws.

Velocity Global offers customized pricing on request.

Shield GEO assists businesses entering new markets where they do not have a local entity. The company helps clients in over 50 countries, handling all aspects of local employment and payroll. EOR Services include managing the hiring of staff and independent contractors, day-to-day employee management, and other business tasks.

Shield GEO also helps with immigration, legal requirements and HR services, including obtaining visas and work permits. Monthly payroll is handled, along with benefits administration.

Business owners benefit from peace of mind, local expertise, improved retention and a fixed cost for international expansion. Dedicated account managers are on hand to eliminate non-compliance and ensure everything goes smoothly.

Shield GEO offers customized pricing on request.