Contrata con Norte review 2026: pricing, verdict & alternatives

Contrata con Norte is an Employer of Record (EOR) built for one hiring direction: Latin American companies putting their first employees on a United States payroll. Founded in 2026, it employs your US hire through a US entity, runs payroll and benefits in all 50 states, and speaks to you in Spanish or Portuguese.

That narrowness is the pitch. The global platforms treat the United States as one of 150 countries and Spanish as one of many support languages. Norte only does the US, and its named specialists sit in Mexico City, Bogota and Sao Paulo.

There is no list price. The fee is a fixed monthly amount per employee, quoted for your case, with no setup fee, no percentage of salary, no hidden FX markup and no exit penalty.

This review covers what Contrata con Norte does well, why its single-country coverage and Spanish-first service rule it out for most buyers, and the narrow set of companies it actually fits.

Contrata con Norte covers the full hire-to-pay cycle for one country: it employs your US worker through a US entity, runs twice-monthly payroll and every tax filing, provides US benefits at cost, and handles state registration and eventual offboarding.

Around that core it offers contractor management with classification review, a visa and work-permit read for founders considering relocation, and background checks for a hire nobody has met in person.

The key capabilities are:

• Employer of Record in all 50 US states with state-specific contracts

• Twice-monthly payroll, federal, state and local filings, and year-end W-2s

• Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) benefits at cost

• Contractor agreements, payments in local currency, and W-2 conversion in about five days

Contrata con Norte covers one country: the United States, in all 50 states. The unit that matters there is the state, not the country, and Norte drafts the contract, registers the employee and applies minimum wage, overtime and paid-leave rules for the specific state your hire lives in. If they move, it re-registers them.

That is also the whole limitation. There is no coverage anywhere else, so Norte cannot be your provider if you also hire in Europe, Asia or elsewhere in Latin America.

Coverage includes:

• EOR employment in all 50 US states

• State-specific contracts, registration and compliance

• Contractor payments in the contractor's currency, with US and non-US tax forms collected

Contrata con Norte does not publish a price, and says so on its pricing page. The fee is a fixed monthly amount per employee, quoted for your case and delivered in writing the same day you share the role, the salary, the state and the start date.

The invoice is built from four lines: the salary you agreed, employer taxes passed through at cost (Social Security and Medicare at 7.65 percent plus federal and state unemployment), benefits at cost at the plan level you choose, and the Norte fee. The fee is not a percentage of salary, so a raise costs you the raise and nothing more.

The site commits to no setup fee, no hidden FX markup, no charge for the first consultation and no exit penalty. What moves the number is the state, the benefits level, headcount and how complicated the case is.

Contrata con Norte is deliberately not a self-serve platform. The site's own line is "one person, not a portal": you write in through a contact form, a specialist reviews the case and calls you back, and the quote, contract and onboarding run through that person.

There is no WhatsApp channel and no self-serve scheduling. The site is Spanish only, with contracts summarised in Spanish or Portuguese and the employee's welcome call in English.

Support is the product. Each client gets a named specialist based in Mexico City, Bogota or Sao Paulo, working Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 20:00 Central time, with a stated response time of under two hours. The team works in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

The specialists' published backgrounds are in cross-border people operations and US payroll for Latin American companies, which is the narrow set of questions a first US hire raises.

Contrata con Norte publishes no integration list. Payroll, benefits, tax filings and contractor payments are handled inside the service, so there is less that needs connecting, but if you rely on a specific HR or accounting tool, confirm what it can export before you commit.

Reporting is the itemised cost breakdown: every quote and invoice separates salary, employer taxes, benefits and the Norte fee, in your currency. The site describes no analytics suite beyond that.

Contrata con Norte publishes no security certifications and no detail on data handling beyond its privacy notice. The service runs on partner-backed employment infrastructure that, per its own site, processes payroll in 185 plus countries, so the underlying systems are established, but Norte itself has not published audits.

Compliance is the reason the corridor exists. Norte handles the parts of US employment that trip up Latin American founders: the state as the unit of law, at-will employment and its final-pay rules, new-hire reporting, workers compensation, and the misclassification test that judges a contractor by how they work rather than what the contract says.

It also collects the right tax forms up front, W-9 and 1099 for US contractors and W-8BEN for those outside, and converts contractors who have drifted into employee territory to W-2.