Disclosure

Employ Borderless is an independent advisory platform. We help companies choose between third-party EOR, PEO, and global payroll providers - we are not one of them. We do not employ workers on behalf of our readers, we do not run payroll, and we do not operate local entities. This page is the complete account of how we make money from advising on those providers.

You never pay Employ Borderless. The companies we recommend pay us when you become their customer through our links or our advisory service. In several cases we have negotiated discounts that are only available through us, so the price you pay through Employ Borderless is the same as or lower than going direct.

Our scoring framework - the Borderless Standard - is public, applied identically to every provider, and finalised before any commercial conversation. Providers cannot buy a higher score, a better position in a ranking, or inclusion in a "best of" list. They also cannot buy exclusion of a competitor.

Here is what compensation does not do:

• -It does not affect pillar scores. A provider's 0-10 rating on features, country coverage, pricing, UX, support, integrations, mobile, analytics, security, and compliance is based on our research, not their commission rate.
• -It does not affect rankings. The top pick in a listicle is the provider we genuinely think is best for that use case.
• -It does not determine which providers we review. We cover providers our readers ask about, whether or not they have a partner program.
• -It does not influence what we write about a provider. Providers can suggest corrections to factual errors (wrong pricing, outdated features), and we verify and fix those. They do not get approval over what we publish.

Our commercial relationships exist because we do the work most buyers cannot do themselves - testing platforms, comparing pricing in detail, talking to providers directly, and tracking how each provider performs over time. That work has to be paid for somehow. Provider-funded compensation lets us keep the site free for readers and means we can invest in deeper, more current research than a paywall could fund.

It also lets us negotiate. Because we send providers a meaningful volume of qualified buyers, several have agreed to discounts, extended trials, or fee waivers that are only available through Employ Borderless links or our advisory matches. The provider still pays us, you pay the same or less than going direct, and the recommendation is based on the same independent scoring as every other provider on the site.

If a recommendation does not match the evidence, if a score seems inconsistent with the pillar breakdown, or if a provider appears promoted in a way that does not reflect their actual fit - get in touch. We take that seriously and we read every message.

The full evaluation framework, research process, and update cadence is on our methodology page. Broader editorial standards - who writes the content, how we handle corrections, and our editorial independence policy - is on our editorial policy page.