// changelog
What changed
Every material update to the dataset and the scoring model, dated and attributed. This is a living dataset, not a snapshot.
// activity
The dataset and the tooling behind it change almost every day. Two pulses: the data we refreshed, and the code we shipped.
Data updated
6,535 data points over 54 days
Changes shipped
195 changes over 31 days
Ratings re-verified weekly · Select Scores recomputed weekly · country data auto-refreshed · pages regenerate continuously.
July 2026
- New data
EOR Select data is now downloadable
The provider directory, country labor facts and fee transparency index are published as open CSV files, free to reuse with attribution. Every value matches the live pages, so you can cite the dataset with confidence.
- New page
What Reddit really thinks about every EOR provider
Every provider's screened Reddit sentiment now lives in one ranked place, so you can see who the community rates warmly, who it cools on, and where that agrees or disagrees with our Select Score. We filter out job ads and marketing plants, quote the most-upvoted take on each provider, link every source, and refresh it monthly.
- New data
Provider profiles now show how the Select Score has moved over time
Each provider page has a new history section that charts our Select Score across every dated reading, so you can see whether a provider is trending up or down instead of trusting a single number. Entry EOR price history joins the same section as monthly price snapshots build up.
- Improvement
Email your EOR shortlist to yourself
The Selector and the true-cost calculator can now email you your shortlist, with a direct link to how each provider is scored. It is entirely optional, your results always show first, and it is a single email with no sign-up and no follow-ups.
- Improvement
The calculator now shows the all-in cost, hidden fees included
The cost calculator now adds statutory employer burden and the fees providers rarely advertise, from FX markup to deposits, setup and offboarding, on top of the headline price, and puts up to three providers side by side on the same hire. Any fee a provider will not disclose shows up as its own line instead of a silent zero, so you can see the true cost floor and exactly where the gaps are.
- New page
New fee transparency index ranks providers by what they disclose
The new fee transparency index ranks every EOR provider by how much of its real cost it publishes, from the base price to FX markup, deposits, setup, offboarding and minimum term. Now you can see exactly which fees a provider admits to, each with a source link, before you ever talk to sales. A provider that publishes a high fee ranks above one that hides it, because what this score rewards is honesty, not being cheap.
- Improvement
Provider profiles reorganized around the data record
Every provider profile now reads as four clear layers: a scorecard that answers whether to pick them, the full data record of pricing, country coverage, employment entities and platform facts on one consistent treatment, what the market says, then track record and company. Grouping the numbers into one coherent dataset makes a profile far faster to scan, and each data block now carries a small footer showing when we last verified it and where the figures come from.
- Improvement
Machine-readable Markdown mirrors on every data page
Add .md to any provider profile, ranking or country record (for example /providers/deel.md) and you get the full page as clean Markdown. AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can now read the whole dataset in one cheap fetch, with every score, source and verification date intact. The new llms.txt index lists all 370+ mirrors.
- New data
Employer burden rank on every country page
Each country page now shows where that country ranks in the Global Employer Burden Index, the open dataset of what it costs and takes to employ someone across 192 countries and territories. Ranked countries link straight to their row in the index, and countries missing pillar data are marked "Not scored" instead of getting an estimate.
- New page
All the free tools, one page
The cost calculator, the Selector, the EOR vs entity break-even calculator and the coverage map now live together at /tools. Each card shows what the tool answers and a live count from the dataset behind it, so you can see how much data is doing the work before you click.
- New page
New tool: when does an EOR stop making sense?
A new break-even calculator compares the sourced cost of forming and running your own entity in a country against the median published EOR fee among providers that cover it. Pick a country and a team size and see where the crossover sits, with every cost range linked to its source. Nine countries at launch, growing as we source more.
- Improvement
Head-to-head comparisons now fit your phone
Comparing two providers on a phone used to mean scrolling sideways with one column hidden. The comparison matrix now stacks each row so both providers sit side by side under every label, nothing off screen. The cost calculator also puts the monthly fee right next to each provider name, so the number you came for is the first thing you see.
- New page
The EOR industry, on one rotating globe
A new coverage map shades every country by how many EOR providers actually operate there, from the same normalized dataset behind our rankings. Spin the globe, click a country, and jump straight to its hiring data and best-scoring providers. It also shows the thin end of the market: the countries where only a handful of providers operate at all.
- New data
Every published price now shows when we last verified it
Provider pricing cards now display the date each EOR price was last checked against the provider's own pricing page, and every price in the dataset carries its source. Where a provider does not publish a price, we now show Quote instead of an unverifiable number, so a low price can no longer be a stale or invented one.
- New page
Dedicated pricing pages for every verified provider price
Providers with a price we have checked against their own site now get a full pricing page: the verified rate with its source and date, what the fee comes to at 1, 5 and 20 employees, and cheaper alternatives at a similar Select Score. Quote-only providers get an honest page too, with the questions worth pinning down before you sign.
- Improvement
The coverage map can now show one provider at a time
Pick any provider on the coverage map and the globe highlights exactly the countries where they run an EOR, with their score, country count and starting price alongside. Every view is shareable: the link carries the provider, so you can send a colleague the exact map you are looking at. Country panels also show provider logos now.
- New data
Hire with Columbus pricing verified
Hire with Columbus now carries a verified flat EOR price of $179 per employee per month, sourced from its own pricing page. The rate includes payroll processing, tax compliance and HR support, and it now renders wherever Hire with Columbus appears in our rankings and comparisons.
- Correction
Omnipresent retired from rankings: it was acquired by Deel
Omnipresent was acquired by Deel in October 2025 and no longer operates independently, so it has been removed from our rankings, comparisons shortlists and tools. Its profile stays up as a historical record with a clear notice and a pointer to Deel. Going forward, any provider that gets acquired or shuts down receives the same treatment, so a defunct company can never sit in a ranking you act on.
- Price update
Every price in the dataset is now verified or honestly absent
We finished checking all 150 providers against their own websites. 39 published EOR prices are now confirmed with a source and date, several were corrected (one provider's real rate was $200 higher than we showed, another's $150 lower), and more than 40 prices we could not verify anywhere were removed and now read Quote. If you see a number on this site, a human checked where it came from.
- New data
What changed at each provider: verified update timelines on 9 more profiles
Nine more provider profiles now carry a recent-updates timeline covering rebrands, funding, leadership changes and product launches, each entry dated and linked to the press source that reported it. Every update was checked against its source before publishing: duplicate and unverifiable items were discarded, and several wrong dates were corrected, including one press release the AI had misdated by six years. Notable additions include the April 2026 consolidation of Eos Global Expansion, Serviap Global and Hightekers under the Rivermate brand.
- New data
Funding histories added for 24 providers, verified round by round
Provider profiles now show disclosed funding timelines for 24 venture-backed providers, 64 rounds in total, each with the round type, date, amount and a press source you can check. Every round was verified against its source before publishing, and rounds that could not be attributed with confidence were discarded. Providers with no disclosed outside funding now say so explicitly instead of showing nothing.
- New page
Best-of rankings now cover 16 countries and six team profiles
The best EOR rankings grew from 11 pages to 22. Eight new country rankings cover the United States, Singapore, the Philippines, Spain, Mexico, Poland, Japan and the United Arab Emirates, and three new segments rank providers for budget-first teams, contractor-heavy teams and fully remote teams. Every ranked row now opens with a one-line Best for verdict from our provider research, so you can see who each provider actually suits before opening the full profile.
- New data
Hear it from the CEO: founder-on-record panels on seven provider profiles
Profiles for Deel, Remote, Rippling, Oyster, Papaya Global, Multiplier and RemoFirst now include a Founder on record section: the CEO's dominant public stance on the industry, AI, competition, remote work and regulation, drawn from analyzed podcast interviews, plus notable quotes that each link to the exact moment in the source video. These are the company's own claims in its founder's words, shown as evidence you can check yourself, and they play no part in the Select Score.
- New data
Statutory maternity and paternity leave now covers 190 countries
Country pages now show statutory paid maternity and paternity leave for 190 countries, sourced from the World Bank Women, Business and the Law study, up from 59 and 27 countries under OECD data alone. Where a country grants no statutory paid leave the page says None, a verified fact rather than a gap, and each World Bank sourced row carries a note explaining exactly what the figure counts.
- Correction
Six registry matches removed after manual address checks
We removed six employer entities that matched provider brand names in the global LEI registry but belonged to unrelated companies, including a Belgian carpet maker and a Helsinki beauty salon. Every registry-verified entity now shown has passed a manual address check against its official record, and new registry discoveries wait for human confirmation before they appear on the site.
- Methodology
Undisclosed pricing now scored below published pricing
Providers that publish their EOR pricing now rank ahead of providers who keep it quote-only. Price transparency is part of the Select Score, so hiding a rate no longer lifts a provider above competitors who are upfront about cost.
- New data
Provider profiles now show who legally employs your people
Provider profiles gained an employment entities table: the legal entity a provider names for each country, with an evidence tier for every row. Registry verified means we matched the entity in an official corporate registry and linked the record; other rows link the provider document that names the entity. This is the question EOR marketing rarely answers, and each entry is backed by a public source you can check yourself.
- Improvement
See the evidence quality behind every Reddit reputation
Each provider's Reddit panel now leads with an evidence summary: how many mentions we hold, how many are first-hand accounts, and how many came from promotional accounts and carry almost no weight. You can filter the mention list to first-hand experiences only, and head-to-head comparison tables show first-hand counts side by side.
- Correction
Merged a duplicate provider listing into Pebl
Velocity Global rebranded to Pebl, and our directory briefly carried both the old and the new record. We merged the legacy Velocity Global listing into Pebl, so the directory now shows one accurate profile and old Velocity Global links redirect to it. The provider count moves from 151 to 150.
- Improvement
Outbound provider links may now earn a referral fee
Visit links on provider profiles now route through our own tracked redirect, and for some providers we earn a referral fee when you sign up. Nothing about how providers are scored or ranked changes: the Select Score is produced entirely by the published scoring model, and fees play no part in it. The full policy is on our disclosure page.
- Improvement
Provider profiles are easier to read
Provider pages now lead with what matters: the score, the verdict explaining it, and the strengths and watch-outs, followed by pricing, coverage and employment entities. Reviews from across the web and the Reddit community signal sit together as one section. Long entity tables start with the eight strongest rows and expand on tap, so a 35-country provider no longer takes over the page.
- Methodology
First-hand experiences now weigh more in Reputation scores
The rating system now records how direct each Reddit author's knowledge is. A first-hand account of using a provider counts fully, a general opinion counts less, and relayed hearsay counts least, so Reputation scores now lean on people who actually used the service. Mentions that praise one thing and criticise another are also now counted under each topic separately, and mention cards carry a First-hand badge so you can see the evidence tier at a glance.
- Correction
Removed paid and vendor voices from Reddit reputation data
A review of our Reddit mention corpus found a small number of referral promotions and posts written by provider employees that had slipped past screening. We removed 18 of them, tightened the ingest filters so affiliate and vendor content is excluded automatically, and recomputed Reputation scores. A few providers' scores shifted as a result, and one dropped back to neutral pending more genuine mentions.
- Improvement
Provider pages now show how a provider's Select Score has changed
Each provider page now shows when its Select Score has moved and what it moved from, drawn from our dated score history. So you can see whether a provider is climbing or slipping over time, not just where it stands today.
June 2026
- Improvement
The cost calculator can now show figures in local currency
Pick a country in the EOR cost calculator and you can now switch every figure from USD into that country's local currency, from gross salary and employer burden to each provider's all-in cost. Conversions use a dated mid-market rate shown on the page, so you can read the numbers in the currency you actually budget in. It is an indicative rate for comparison, not what a provider bills at.
- Improvement
The cost calculator now breaks down salary, employer burden and the EOR fee separately
The EOR cost calculator now splits every estimate into its real parts: gross salary, statutory employer burden, and the provider's own fee, instead of a single lumped total. Employer burden is drawn from real per-country contribution data for 43 countries, with the individual contributions and the year they come from shown on demand. You can now see at a glance that most of your cost is salary and statutory burden you would pay with any provider, and compare providers on the fee that actually differs.
- Improvement
The cost calculator now leads with top-rated providers, not just the cheapest
The EOR cost calculator now ranks providers by their Select Score by default, so you see the strongest options first instead of only the cheapest. Each row shows the provider's Select Score, you can switch between Top rated and Lowest cost in one click, and the cheapest option is always tagged so you can weigh quality against price at a glance.
- New data
The cost calculator now covers more than 180 countries
The EOR cost calculator now estimates employer burden for over 180 countries, up from around 40. Burden for the newly added countries is drawn from global social security contribution data, and each country shows its source and the year the figures are from. You can now run a realistic all-in estimate for far more of the world, not just the major OECD economies.
- Improvement
Provider pages now show how each one's review scores have moved
Every provider page now has a Recent updates section that shows how its third-party review scores have shifted since we started tracking, like a rating climbing or slipping and how many new reviews came in. It is drawn straight from our weekly verification, so you can see at a glance whether a provider's standing is improving or sliding rather than just its score today.
- New data
More providers now show what people say about them on Reddit
Our Reddit reputation panels, the screened community sentiment shown on provider pages, now cover more employers of record, including Gusto and Employment Hero that had no community coverage before. Each panel breaks down how positive or negative the discussion is, the topics people raise most often, and the real quotes behind it, with every mention checked for relevance before it appears.
- Improvement
Clearer currency information on provider profiles
Every provider page now states the honest version: employees are paid in their local currency across all the countries the provider covers, and where a provider documents it, the specific currencies you can be billed in. This replaces vague or inflated currency counts with something you can actually compare.
- New data
Country pages now show the legal full-time working week
Each country page now lists the statutory full-time working week set in that country's labour law, from 35 hours in France to 48 in much of Asia and the Gulf, for around 48 major hiring markets. Every figure links back to the specific law it comes from, and countries that only cap a maximum rather than fix a standard week are left blank instead of guessed.
- New data
Retirement age now covers over 100 more countries
The statutory retirement age now appears on country pages across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the wider world, not just the wealthy economies. We added the legal pension age for more than 100 additional countries, each drawn from official social-security sources and dated, so you can see when someone can draw their state pension almost anywhere you hire.
- New data
Country pages add retirement age, union membership and bargaining coverage
Each country page now shows the statutory retirement age plus how unionised the workforce is and how much of it is covered by collective bargaining agreements, for around 40 to 50 major economies. Every figure is sourced from the OECD and carries its own date, so you can see how recent it is at a glance.
- Improvement
Country pages now show what recently changed
Each country page now carries a short "recent updates" section that lists the figures we have refreshed, when, and which source replaced the older one. It only appears where something genuinely changed, so you can see at a glance that the data behind a country is being kept current rather than left to age.
- New data
Termination figures refreshed to current labour law for 29 countries
Notice and severance figures for 29 countries now reflect each country's current statutory rules, cross-checked against the ILO Employment Protection Legislation database. Where the law has moved since 2019, such as Ethiopia's higher redundancy pay or Egypt's 2025 labour code, the page now shows the up-to-date figure alongside the year it was last verified, and a short note records what changed.
- New data
Notice and severance now shown on every country page
Each country page now shows the statutory notice period and severance pay an employer owes on a redundancy dismissal, in weeks of salary and comparable across 187 countries. These two figures sit at the heart of what it costs and how hard it is to exit an employee, and were previously missing from almost every country.
- Improvement
Redesigned the country pages
Each country page now opens with a plain-language snapshot: cost of employment, ease of exit and how fast you can hire, followed by the three ways to hire there. The full sourced dataset sits below, so the headline read is fast and the detail is still one scroll away.
- New data
Expanded country hiring data to 180+ countries
The country dataset now reaches well beyond the original OECD set: minimum wage, employer social security, tax and economic figures for over 180 countries, drawn from OECD, ILOSTAT, Eurostat, the World Bank and ISSA. Every number stays sourced, dated and refreshed automatically.
- Methodology
Rebuilt how the Select Score handles evidence
The model now weights every third-party rating by how many reviews stand behind it, and holds a provider’s overall score closer to neutral until enough independent data backs it. A handful of reviews can no longer outweigh thousands. Full detail on the methodology page.
- New data
Added Reddit community reputation
Reputation is now a scored dimension, built from genuine Reddit discussion that a person screens for relevance before it counts. The individual mentions, praise and complaints, are shown on each provider page.
- New data
Published sourced country hiring data
Launched the country dataset: minimum wage, employer cost, tax and worker-protection figures per country, every number sourced and dated. Initial coverage is built on OECD data, with more sources being layered in.
- New data
Built the third-party review analysis
Wired in weekly-verified ratings and review counts from G2, Capterra and Trustpilot, volume-weighted into one blended score per provider.
- New provider
Indexed 150+ EOR providers
Normalized the market into one dataset: 151 Employer of Record providers with coverage, pricing, capabilities and certifications on a single comparable schema.
- Launch
EOR Select went live
EOR Select launched: an independent, data-driven way to compare every Employer of Record on one normalized dataset, with a transparent scoring model and no pay-to-rank. Built and maintained by Robbin Schuchmann.