Hire world-class talent abroad, for up to 70% less.
Hiredesk becomes the legal employer in-country and handles contracts, payroll and compliance for a flat £99 a month. You get the person and your time back, with a compliant hire live in as little as 48 hours.
High standards shouldn't cost high overhead.
You don't need to lower your bar to protect your margins. We help you connect with top-tier international professionals who match your work ethic, at true market rates.
Hiring abroad without an EOR is slow, expensive, and quietly risky.
There are three ways to put someone on in a country where you have no company. Two of them can hurt you. See what each path actually costs, then decide.
Open your own legal entity
Register a company in the country, set up local payroll, appoint local directors, open a bank account, and keep it all compliant, before your new hire can legally start.
- ✕Months of setup before anyone can be paid, so the hire waits, or walks.
- ✕£15,000+ to stand it up, plus ongoing accounting, filings and local counsel.
- ✕You now own a foreign company you have to wind down if the role ends.
- ✕Every compliance mistake is yours, and back-taxes and penalties land on you.
Every legal obligation an employer has in a country, we take on for you.
Compliant contracts, minimum wage and working hours, statutory leave, social and pension contributions, mandatory benefits, tax withholding and termination. Whatever the law of that country requires of an employer, Hiredesk handles and remits on your behalf. It runs on one compliance engine, kept current in every market we cover and maintained with local counsel. You receive one invoice: the actual statutory costs at cost, plus our flat fee.
Employer of Record
How you reclaim your time in 3 simple steps.
Pick your talent
Find the exact skill set your business needs to grow. Source them yourself or use our partner networks, and you keep 100% control over who joins your team.
We handle the legal & payroll heavy lifting
No local entity needed. We generate legally binding, 100% compliant local contracts, set up benefits, and process monthly cross-border payroll, fast.
You get back to building your business
Hand off the daily execution to capable hands. Your new hire gets a smooth onboarding while you get your focus and freedom back.
Four live corridors, each one run close to the ground.
The large platforms stretch across 150-plus countries through distant partners. We do the opposite: a focused set of corridors that are all live today, each with a vetted in-country partner we work with directly. Fewer markets, run with more attention, and all of them open for hiring right now.
A vetted local partner, with real depth on the ground.
Provincial compliance. Employment tracked across four provincial regimes on top of federal law, through a partner who works these rules every day.
In-country, not remote. Contracts, statutory enrolments and payroll are handled locally by our vetted employment partner, with our team managing the relationship end to end.
Workers paid in local currency, with statutory contributions handled and every deduction visible.
United Kingdom & Europe
A London-registered counterparty. Hiredesk Ltd is a UK company, and your contract is a UK contract.
Remote hiring without an entity, billed as one invoice in GBP covering salary, statutory costs and our flat fee.
Philippines
English-proficient services talent with a deep, established outsourcing base across support, finance and technology roles.
Live through a vetted local partner, with workers paid in peso and every statutory deduction visible.
South Africa
Aligned time zones with Europe and strong professional-services, engineering and customer-operations talent.
Live through a vetted local partner, with rand payroll and full statutory compliance handled in-country.
Companies hiring remote professionals through Hiredesk.
From household names to fast-growing businesses, teams rely on us to build and employ their people, so they can focus on growth.
Flat fees, not a percentage of salary.
The market leaders charge around £475 per employee per month. Our focused-corridor cost base lets us hold a flat £99 profitably rather than as a loss-leader, and our ongoing service fee is never a percentage of salary.
Our monthly service fee is flat — £99 per employee, never a percentage. That's the fee competitors charge you a percentage for; ours doesn't move when you give a pay rise. Finding the candidate is separate: a one-time employee finder fee of 10% of one month's salary applies when we place a hire. It's charged once, shown on your first invoice, and refundable if the hire doesn't pass probation.
One flat fee. No percentage of salary on the monthly service, no security deposit, no hidden extras. Most providers add a deposit worth a month's salary, an FX markup and per-event charges on top of the headline price. We don't. Your recurring costs are the worker's actual costs plus our flat £99, paid monthly in advance with no lump-sum deposit tied up. The only one-off is the finder fee above, shown up front on your first invoice. The calculator below shows every recurring line.
No lock-in, either. Month-to-month, cancel anytime on 30 days' notice. The big platforms say "cancel anytime" but bury a minimum term in the contract; we don't tie you in. You stay because it works, not because you're trapped.
The £99 is our fee only. Salary and the employer's statutory costs (contributions, mandatory benefits, taxes) are billed on top at cost, so your invoice is those actual costs plus the flat fee. Billing is monthly: a pre-funding invoice at the start of the month (payable within 14 days, before payroll runs) and a reconciliation invoice the following month for actual costs. £99 is our average corridor fee; cross-currency payouts run at 0.5–2% over the mid-market rate, disclosed up front. Prices are quoted in GBP and invoiced from a UK account. Final quotes depend on country and headcount.
- Full legal employment in-country
- Payroll, tax and statutory filings
- Compliance kept current as the law changes
- Local-currency payout to the worker
- Named account contact
- No lock-in, cancel anytime on 30 days' notice
- No deposit, no hidden extras
What a hire in our partner countries could actually cost you.
Pick a corridor and enter a gross monthly salary. We show the worker's take-home and your full monthly cost, including our flat fee. Every line is visible; nothing is buried in a percentage.
Tax uses illustrative Pakistan salaried slabs; EOBI and social security simplified. Verify with FBR before relying on these figures.
What that works out to per hour
The fully-loaded cost to you, including the worker's taxes and statutory contributions and our flat £99 fee, at a standard 40-hour full-time week. Drag the salary and these update too.
Fully-loaded figures include the employee's income tax and statutory deductions, the employer's statutory contributions, and the flat £99 Hiredesk fee. Part-time scales the salary and statutory costs to half the hours; the £99 fee stays flat per employee, so the part-time hourly rate is slightly higher. All figures illustrative.
The things clients ask before signing.
What exactly is an Employer of Record?+
How is this different from hiring a freelancer?+
Do you own your entities or use partners?+
How fast can you make a hire compliant?+
How do you charge?+
What's the employee finder fee?+
Are there hidden fees, deposits or surprises?+
How long am I tied in for?+
I'm an employer. How do I start?+
Who is behind Hiredesk?+
Tell us the role. We handle the rest.
A compliant employer in the countries where you have no entity, and one invoice covering salary, statutory costs and our flat fee. Send an enquiry and we come back within one working day.