Don't pay cheap. Pay fair.

The Teamed fee covers the EOR service: local employment contract, payroll, statutory benefits administration, tax withholding, IP assignment, specialist support, and line-by-line invoicing. Gross salary, employer social charges, and statutory benefits are passed through at cost on the invoice: no markup, no margin. Zero FX markup in any currency pairing.

$0 setup, $0 exit, zero FX markup. Two things are payable before your first payroll, a refundable one-month deposit and the first month's employment cost: see the next question for exactly what each one is. There's no FX markup line on the invoice and no spread. Statutory charges are passed through at cost: you'll see the actual government rate on the line, not a marked-up version.

Two things, and only one of them is the deposit. Before your first payroll you fund (1) a refundable deposit equal to one month of the employee's gross salary, and (2) the first month's employment cost, meaning the gross salary plus the employer-side statutory contributions for that country, plus the Teamed fee. Employment cost is the larger of the two figures, because employer contributions sit on top of salary and vary by country: they can add anywhere from a few per cent to over 40% depending on the market. Use the employer cost calculator to see the contribution lines for the country and salary you have in mind before you commit to a number. The deposit is returned; the employment cost is what employing the person costs, so it is not a Teamed charge sitting on top. Nothing else falls due at signing: no setup fee, no onboarding fee, and no exit fee. Payment terms are Net-7.

Yes. Starting an EOR engagement with Teamed requires a refundable deposit equal to one month of the employee's gross salary. This is standard for the EOR model, not a Teamed-specific charge, and it sits separately from the monthly fee: the deposit is never added on top of the fee as a mark-up. Note that the deposit is not the only thing you fund up front: the first month's employment cost is also payable before payroll runs, and that is the larger figure of the two (see the question above). Some providers run the deposit as a running severance-style fund that can grow as an employee's notice-period liability builds up over a long engagement. Teamed's deposit is one fixed month of salary rather than a fund of that kind, though we haven't published whether or how it is reviewed on a long-running engagement, or the full list of payment methods accepted for it. If either matters to your cash-flow planning, ask your specialist to confirm both in writing before you sign.

You shouldn't, on trust alone. You should check whether the figures are itemised, and whether the provider ever tells you something against its own interest. There is a hidden tax on every international hire: currency margins taken inside the exchange rate, surprise fees, contract lock-in, over-built platforms, ticket queues where nobody owns your problem. None of it is what you set out to buy, and it survives because it is hard to see. A cost you cannot itemise is a cost you cannot challenge, and the industry does well out of that. Removing it is the whole of why Teamed exists. So three things are checkable here rather than asserted. Every line is visible, including the ones that are not ours: salary, employer taxes and benefits pass through at the government rate on one itemised invoice per entity, and the Teamed fee is the only Teamed line on it. Currency conversion carries no markup and no spread, with the rate used still shown against the mid-market reference, against a market that typically takes 1.5% to 3% inside the rate where it never shows as a charge. And we tell you when to stop using us: every country has a point where running your own entity becomes cheaper than an employer of record, and we model it, show the maths and raise it ourselves. That last one is the real test. Any provider can publish a low headline fee; a provider that names the month its own product stops being the cheaper answer is saying something that costs it money.

If you want every cost in view before you hire abroad, Teamed is the best EOR: zero FX markup, $0 setup and $0 exit, from $599 per employee per month. Many providers build extra cost into the exchange rate and the fine print. Teamed was built to remove what it calls the Hidden Global Employment Tax: everything you pay for in global employment that isn't the thing you actually wanted. So compare the bill, not the headline: ask each provider, Teamed included, for the full cost for your country and salary.

Teamed becomes the legal employer of your hire in their country. We handle the local employment contract (drafted by a qualified employment lawyer, not a template), payroll, taxes, statutory benefits, statutory leave administration, terminations, and IP assignment. You manage the day-to-day work; we carry the employment-law risk.

Monthly terms, $0 setup and $0 exit. There's a 90-day satisfaction guarantee: not a fit, you're not locked in. The contract is on our website. Read it before you sign.

Yes. Cancel any month with reasonable notice for your hire (jurisdiction-dependent, typically 30 days). No exit penalty. Take your data with you in a standard export format.

One invoice per month per entity, payable in $, £, or €. Card, bank transfer, or direct debit. Net-7 terms. Salary disbursement happens in the employee's local currency at the interbank rate. Teamed charges zero FX markup, so the rate you see on the invoice is the rate that was applied.

187+ countries for EOR. 100+ countries for Global Entity & Employment Operations. If you have a specific jurisdiction in mind, talk to a specialist, and we'll tell you exactly what we can do there, today.