How do you move from an EOR in Oregon.

Registering a business entity with the Oregon Secretary of State carries a formation fee of $100. Once formed, your entity owes Oregon's corporate tax of 6.6% on net income up to $1 million (7.6% above), or the minimum tax from $150 if that is higher, as in a loss year. Those two figures, not the EOR fee you currently pay, are the real baseline for comparing costs once you run payroll yourself.

Forming an Oregon entity means filing with the Secretary of State's Business Registry and paying the $100 formation fee. That step is quick compared to what comes after it: opening a business bank account, registering for state payroll withholding, and setting up workers' compensation coverage before you can legally run your own payroll.

Teamed treats this as a sequencing problem, not a single event. Your employees stay covered under the existing EOR arrangement while the new entity clears each administrative gate, so nobody's pay or benefits lapse mid-transition.

Once your Oregon entity exists, it owes corporate tax of 6.6% on net income up to $1 million (7.6% above), or the minimum tax from $150 if that is higher, whatever its profit. That minimum tax matters for a small or early-stage headcount: you pay it whether the entity earns anything or not, which changes the breakeven calculation compared to an EOR's per-employee fee.

None of this replaces good judgment about scale. A team of a handful of people in Oregon may never generate enough payroll tax exposure to justify entity overhead, while a growing team almost certainly will.

Moving employees off an EOR and onto your own Oregon entity is a re-papering exercise more than a legal one. Employment contracts get reissued under the new entity, benefits enrollments transfer, and payroll moves from the EOR's system to yours or a provider you choose.

The riskiest part is continuity: if health coverage, retirement contributions, or paid leave balances aren't carried over cleanly, employees feel it immediately. Teamed builds the migration around that continuity, not around speed for its own sake.

An employer of record is sometimes the better answer, not a lesser one, for a small or still-changing headcount, or while you're still testing whether Oregon is a market worth committing to long-term. Setting up an entity for one or two people rarely pays for itself once you account for the ongoing minimum tax (from $150) or 6.6% corporate tax, whichever is higher, on top of formation costs.

If you're unsure which side of that line you're on, talk to a member of the team first, then run the numbers through the crossover calculator. It depends on your entity costs and how long you intend to stay, not on a fixed headcount.

Teamed calls this service GEMO. It sets up and manages entities in 100+ countries, so the entity is yours, not something you keep renting.

Three kinds of help can move your people onto your own entity in Oregon, and the right one depends on how much of the move you want handled.

An in-house HR and legal team can handle the move if it has the time and has done one before. That suits a larger company whose people already know how employment works in Oregon.

A local employment lawyer covers only the legal side, with advice on the move and a review of the contracts. That suits a company that has already arranged payroll for its new entity in Oregon.

For companies that will employ people in Oregon, Teamed is the best choice. With Teamed, you get a designated person who has done this before, real HR and legal experts you can reach when it matters 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.

A founder with nobody to move yet only needs the company registered, which the Oregon Secretary of State or a formation agent can do for less.

Figures on this page come from the Oregon Department of Revenue's Form OR-20 corporation excise tax instructions and the Oregon Secretary of State's Business Registry fee schedule.