What an employer of record page has to say

Key takeaways

I look for a sentence that says the provider employs the person for the customer.
I look for the country, and for whether the page says the provider owns the entity.
A published price stays in the note. A missing price stays blank.
Contractor payment is a different job, even when the same vendor sells both.

Employer of record is a crowded label. I use it for one job: the customer wants a person employed in a country where the customer has no legal entity, and the vendor's page says the vendor is the legal employer. If the page only says “hire anyone, anywhere,” I go looking for that sentence.

Who employs the person

Employer of recordVendor employs them
Your entityYou employ them
Contractor payNot this list

Deel's employer of record page says a company can hire and pay employees globally with no entity required, and its FAQ says the employee is on Deel's payroll while they still work for the company using the EOR. That is the sentence I need. I file it on the employer of record guide.

The country count is not the contract

Deel's page says it owns entities and a payroll engine in 130+ countries, and a later line says 150+ countries. Remote's page says 90+ countries through entities Remote owns. Oyster's page says 120+ countries. I write the number down next to the name of the page, then I ask whether the country on this hire is inside that number. I do not treat the larger figure as a promise.

The price, or the blank

Remote's page lists employer of record pricing starting at $599 per employee per month and says the platform has no base fee. Deel's page and Oyster's page do not print a dollar amount. I leave those cells blank. I do not borrow a price from a roundup to fill them. The same habit is how I read an HRIS page that names payroll but withholds the rate.

Contractor payment is a different sentence

A vendor can pay contractors and also employ people. I only file the employment product when the page says the vendor is the legal employer. A contractor invoice, a visa line, or a global payroll module for a company that already has an entity does not put the name on this list by itself. I ask the seller to point at the employment sentence before I book the rest of the demo.