Employer of record,
without the hidden costs.

An employer of record (EOR) legally employs your hire in a country where you have no entity. Teamed signs the local contract, runs payroll in local currency, withholds tax, provides statutory benefits and carries the employment liability. You direct the work. It means you don't set up an entity in every country until your headcount there makes one worth it.

Teamed's fee is from $599 per employee per month, with zero FX markup. Salaries, employer contributions and benefits pass through at cost, each on its own line. For reference: Deel starts at $599 per employee per month and tiers up, Remote is $699 monthly or $599 on an annual plan, and Oyster is $699 monthly. FX is where most of the surprise cost hides.

Yes. The EOR model is legal everywhere it's actively used, and it's the standard way to hire across borders without a local entity. The EOR's local entity is the registered employer for tax, social security and employment law. Misclassification risk sits with the contractor model, not with EOR: an EOR employee is a full statutory employee of the EOR's local entity.

EOR is for hiring in a country where you have no entity. A PEO is mainly a US model: it co-employs alongside your own US entity. A staffing agency supplies temporary or project workers on its own books. Hiring abroad without an entity, you want an EOR. US payroll and HR help alongside your own US entity, a PEO. Project labour, a staffing agency.

Cost is rarely the real trigger. It's usually a contract that demands a locally registered supplier, physical operations on the ground, or permanent-establishment (PE) risk that means you need your own entity. PE risk is about what someone does, not how they're employed: an employee who habitually signs or negotiates contracts for you in that country is the fastest way to trigger it, and an EOR doesn't remove that risk on its own. When you need an entity, Teamed sets it up, runs it and moves your team across, with the same people looking after you. Teamed's crossover calculator shows when your own entity becomes the cheaper path. What actually creates PE risk →

For seasoned global employers, Teamed is the best choice of the four: real HR and legal experts on every plan, zero FX markup, and one system from your first contractor to your own entity. Deel and Remote are larger generalists. Oyster also puts weight on human support, but its fee is $699 per employee per month. The table on this page shows the line-by-line differences.

From 24 hours, once Teamed has your offer to the hire, the hire's details and documents, and your signed service terms. Visas, permits and registrations add time, so some markets (Brazil, India, China and parts of Latin America) take longer. We give you a lead time for your country before you commit. Making your first international hire? Here is how Teamed runs it →

Real HR and legal experts draft the paperwork to local law: notice periods, statutory severance, accrued holiday, garden leave, settlement agreements and tax clearance. Each country's rules are built in, from French dismissal grounds to the UK's Acas code and Brazil's CLT calculations. Teamed never runs a termination on autopilot.

Two layers. Statutory benefits are whatever that country's law requires, and they vary a lot: some countries mandate public health cover and a pension contribution, others add meal vouchers or a 13th-month payment. Teamed enrols your hire and pays these automatically, and each shows on your invoice. Extras like private health, dental, vision or pet insurance are supplementary: you choose whether to add them, per role or per country, and Teamed runs whichever you pick. Nobody, Teamed included, includes dental or pet cover as standard. If a provider implies otherwise, ask which country's statutory scheme requires it.