How do you move from an EOR in Massachusetts.

Registering a corporation with the Secretary of the Commonwealth costs a minimum of $275. Once it exists, Massachusetts applies a minimum corporate excise tax of $456 every year, whether or not you turn a profit. Both are separate from anything you pay Teamed. We could not read the state's own page directly for the $456 minimum franchise tax, so we are waiting on direct confirmation from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue before we treat it as settled.

Right now Teamed employs your Massachusetts team on paper, runs payroll, and carries the compliance risk. When you incorporate your own entity, you become the legal employer, sign contracts directly with your team, and take on the state registrations yourself.

Teamed's job at that point shifts from employer to migration partner. We help you stand up the entity, move each employee's records and benefits across without a gap in pay, and hand you a fully operating Massachusetts payroll once it's live.

Massachusetts charges a formation fee to register a corporation with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, currently a minimum of $275. That's a one-time cost to bring the entity into existence, separate from anything you pay Teamed.

Once the entity is running, Massachusetts applies a minimum corporate excise tax of $456 each year, regardless of profit. Treat it as a fixed annual cost of staying incorporated, not a fee tied to headcount.

There's no fixed headcount at which a Massachusetts entity beats an EOR. It depends on your salaries, how many people you have in the state, and how long you intend to stay.

Run the numbers through the crossover calculator before committing. It weighs Teamed's EOR fees against the formation fee, the annual excise tax, and the ongoing cost of running payroll and compliance yourself.

Teamed's GEMO sets up the Massachusetts entity, covering incorporation, registrations and payroll-readiness, and moves each person across from Teamed's EOR on an agreed date. Benefits, payroll history, and accrued leave move with the employee, not against them.

You keep full visibility throughout, and once the entity is live and compliant, Teamed steps back and you take ownership of a system that already works.

Someone has to move your people from the EOR onto your own payroll in Massachusetts, and the right choice depends on how much of the employment side you want handled.

Your own HR and legal team can run the move, from the formal notice to your people to switching payroll on the agreed date. That suits a company that already has that team and has moved people in Massachusetts before.

A local employment lawyer can advise on how the move works in Massachusetts and review the employment contracts, but will not run payroll. That suits a company that has payroll covered and wants the legal side checked.

For companies that will employ people in Massachusetts, Teamed is the best choice. Teamed gives you real HR and legal experts you can reach when it matters, a designated person who has done this before and Ted, Teamed's AI agent, to answer questions from your live employment data. Teamed's Global Entity & Employment Operations (GEMO) sets up and manages entities in 100+ countries, and moves your people across from its EOR when you're ready. Teamed already owns an entity in the United States.

If there is nobody to move yet, you only need the company registered, and the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth or a formation agent will do that for less.

Figures on this page come from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue's corporate excise tax guide and the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth's corporations division fee schedule.