How Much Does an EOR Cost in 2026? Per-Employee Prices from 8 Providers

An employer of record costs $199 to $699 per employee per month in 2026 on the eight providers that print a price. RemoFirst and Skuad start at $199, Multiplier at $459 on an annual contract, RemotePeople at $499, Deel and G-P at $599, Remote at $599 on annual contracts, and Oyster at $699. Those are service fees: salary, employer contributions and benefits are billed on top. Prices read on each vendor's pricing page on 26 October 2026.

Every one of those eight sells a flat fee per employee per month, and none of them prints a percentage-of-salary rate. That makes the fee easy to compare and easy to misjudge, because a flat fee at the leaders' rate is 12% of a $60,000 salary and 6% of a $120,000 one. The sections below turn each printed fee into a yearly bill for five hires, show what it means as a share of two salary levels, and list the deposits, implementation fees and country surcharges the pricing pages disclose beside the headline.

An EOR is a company that legally employs your overseas hire in a country where you have no entity, runs the local payroll and contract, and bills you the salary plus its fee. The best EOR services list ranks the providers; this page is only about what they charge.

Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, counts 369 HR and recruiting tools in its catalog, and about 69% of them are paid-only with no free tier, in its employer of record guide as of October 2026. The guide names Deel as its overall pick and RemoFirst as the cheapest published rate, which matches the ladder below.

EOR prices at a glance

Rippling belongs on a shortlist but not in the table, because its pricing page prints "from $8 per employee per month plus a monthly base fee" for the platform and sells EOR by quote; the Rippling pricing page goes through what that headline leaves out. Papaya Global and Pebl, the former Velocity Global, also sell EOR without a price we could read on their pages, so check the current price on each vendor's site before comparing them with the eight above.

What five hires cost for a year

Multiply the printed fee by five employees and twelve months and the spread between the cheapest and dearest provider is $30,000 a year. Our arithmetic, service fees only:

The cheapest tier costs a third of the leaders' tier for the same headcount, which is why the cheap end of the market has grown. What the cheaper fee buys is a narrower product: RemoFirst's page sells the EOR fee as a flat rate with health insurance as a $55 add-on, Skuad lists a dashboard and integrations, while Deel's page lists full legal employment in 130 or more countries with compliance, payroll and benefits administration in the quoted price. A finance lead comparing the two ends should ask what the $400 a month gap buys in the countries they hire in.

Multiplier's two prices are the clearest example of a contract-term premium. Core costs more month to month than on an annual contract, a $480 difference per employee per year, and the Growth plan with HRIS integrations runs $519 and $559. A company that will keep five people employed for a year saves $2,400 by committing, and loses that saving if two of them leave in month four.

The fee as a share of salary

A flat fee is regressive: it takes a bigger bite of a modest salary. The table divides each yearly fee by two salary levels, our arithmetic again.

On a $60,000 hire, the three price-matched leaders charge 12% of salary before employer contributions, and Oyster's fee charges 14%. On a $120,000 engineer the same fees are 6% and 7%, which is why the big-name EORs are mostly sold to companies hiring senior staff. A company employing five customer-support agents at $40,000 would pay Deel, Remote or G-P 18% of each salary in fees, a figure that argues for the cheapest tier or for opening an entity.

Only one provider ties its price to salary. RemotePeople's EOR Select, from $199, applies to qualifying countries and salary ranges, and its standard EOR Global starts at the rate in the table with the final rate confirmed in the quote. The how much a PEO costs page covers the US co-employment market, where percentage-of-payroll pricing is common; among these eight EORs it is absent.

What the pricing pages disclose beyond the fee

A deposit is the first charge that is not in the headline. Oyster's page says it requires a refundable deposit for each EOR team member to start the engagement and secure on-time payments. RemotePeople says its proposal confirms the security deposit, payroll funding and refund terms. Remote's page says its startup program carries no deposit or setup fees, which implies the question is worth asking on its standard terms. Deel, G-P, Multiplier, RemoFirst and Skuad print nothing about a deposit on their pricing pages, so put it in the first question to sales.

Implementation and country surcharges are the second. Multiplier's plan cards carry "compliance-mandated add-ons" and "implementation fee as applicable", and its FAQ says about 11% of the countries it supports have adjusted pricing for local wage realities and payroll complexity. RemoFirst's FAQ says its fee may vary based on local country requirements. Oyster's FAQ says setup, onboarding, HR advice and terminations are all inside the subscription. A "from" price is a floor for the easiest country, not a rate card.

Currency is the third. Deel's page says it provides competitive exchange rates and multiple payment methods with minimal fees, and Oyster accepts payment in USD, EUR, GBP or CAD, but none of the eight prints a foreign-exchange margin on its pricing page. A salary paid in a local currency passes through the provider's rate every month, so a 1% margin on the lower of our two salaries is $600 a year per hire, our arithmetic on a margin the pages do not state. Ask for the margin, or the right to fund payroll in local currency, in writing.

Employer costs are the fourth and the largest. Every provider bills statutory employer contributions, mandatory benefits and any 13th-month pay on top of the fee, and RemotePeople's FAQ says those are separate from the service fee so the buyer can budget the total employment cost. In a country where employer contributions run a quarter of salary, the EOR fee is the smaller line on the invoice.

Where each provider is the cheaper buy

Under $500 a month: RemoFirst, Skuad, Multiplier Core on an annual contract, RemotePeople. These fit a company hiring mid-salary staff in a handful of countries, where the leaders' fee would run past 10% of salary. The trade is a thinner platform and, on Multiplier, a twelve-month commitment to get the lower price. RemotePeople's Select tier is worth a check whenever the hire's country and salary qualify.

The price-matched leaders: Deel, Remote, G-P. The three price-matched leaders compete on coverage and platform rather than fee. Deel's page claims 130 or more EOR countries, Remote's 90 or more, G-P's 180 or more, and Remote prints no base fee and a 15% startup discount for a year. Pick between them on the countries you need and the HRIS you already run; the Deel vs Remote comparison and the Deel review, Remote review and Multiplier review cover the product differences.

The top of the ladder: Oyster. The highest printed fee buys a page that promises no setup, onboarding or termination charges and annual seats at a lower negotiated rate. It is the right call when a company values a fixed all-in subscription over the lowest headline, and the wrong one on the lower salary in our table, where it costs 14% before contributions. The Oyster review and Deel vs Oyster go deeper.

Quote only: Rippling. Worth a quote when the company already runs Rippling payroll, IT and HR and wants the EOR hire inside the same system; the Rippling review explains the modular pricing. Do not budget its EOR from the $8 platform line.

How we checked these figures

We read the pricing pages of Deel, Remote, G-P, Oyster, Multiplier, RemotePeople, RemoFirst and Skuad, plus Rippling's pricing page, on 26 October 2026, and took the EOR fee, its billing basis and any deposit, implementation or country-pricing statement from those pages and their FAQs. Papaya Global's and Pebl's pricing could not be read on their sites that day, so neither appears with a figure. The yearly and five-hire totals multiply the printed monthly fee by 12 and by 5; the salary shares divide the yearly fee by $60,000 and $120,000; both are our arithmetic and exclude salary, employer contributions, benefits and currency costs. Toolradar profiles of Deel, Remote, Multiplier, Oyster, RemoFirst, G-P and Rippling hold the catalog data. Re-check each page before signing, because several of these fees are "from" prices that move by country.

FAQ

How much does an EOR cost per employee per month?

From the RemoFirst and Skuad entry rate at the bottom of the table above to $699 at Oyster, per employee per month, on the eight providers that print a price in October 2026. Multiplier is $459 on an annual contract or $499 monthly, RemotePeople is from $499, and Deel, Remote and G-P share one price-matched rate. Salary, employer contributions, benefits and any deposit are billed on top of that fee.

What does an EOR cost for five employees a year?

From $11,940 a year at the cheapest tier to $41,940 at Oyster's $699, with Deel, Remote and G-P at $35,940 and Multiplier Core at $27,540 on an annual contract. Those totals are the service fee only, multiplied by five employees and twelve months, and exclude the salaries and employer costs the provider passes through.

Is an EOR fee a percentage of salary?

Not on these eight providers: every one prints a flat fee per employee per month. The flat fee still behaves like a percentage in the budget, taking 12% of a $60,000 salary at the leaders' rate and 6% of a $120,000 salary. RemotePeople's EOR Select is the one tier that depends on the hire's salary range and country, at the cheapest providers' rate for hires that qualify.

Do EORs charge a deposit?

Some do, and the pages say so unevenly. Oyster requires a refundable deposit per EOR team member, RemotePeople sets a security deposit and payroll funding in its proposal, and Remote advertises no deposit or setup fees for startups in its program. Deel, G-P, Multiplier, RemoFirst and Skuad print nothing about deposits on their pricing pages, so ask before signing.

What is the cheapest employer of record in 2026?

RemoFirst and Skuad, both at the lowest printed rate per employee per month, with RemotePeople's EOR Select matching it where the country and salary qualify. The next step up is Multiplier Core on an annual contract. The cheaper fees come with country-based variation on RemoFirst and a thinner platform than the leaders.

How much does Rippling charge for EOR?

Rippling publishes no EOR list price. Its pricing page says plans start at $8 per employee per month plus a monthly base fee and that the total depends on the products you choose, with EOR sold by custom quote. Budget it from a written quote, not from the platform's starting line.

Cite this: HRpresso, "How Much Does an EOR Cost in 2026? Per-Employee Prices from 8 Providers", November 2026.

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