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UK Employer of Record.
Priced honestly.

Direct entity in the United Kingdom. One flat markup on wages, or cost-plus for larger programs, depending on how many people you are hiring and for how long. The two calculators below show what you'd actually pay versus a SaaS EOR.

Two pricing options

Pick the model. The country rate is set.

●One rate · England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland

One markup rate on wages, the same UK-wide. Northern Ireland's employment law differs in places; we handle that.

Flat markup
One rate on wages. Nothing on top.
UK rate
35% markup on wages
33% on a 3-year contract
Employer NI, auto-enrolment pension and the apprenticeship levy sit inside the markup. Your people are salaried, so holiday and bank holidays don't change your invoice. Accrued untaken holiday is paid out at the end of the assignment. Same rate across all four nations.
How billing works
  • ·One markup rate on wages, every month
  • ·Leave doesn't move your invoice; payout at assignment end
  • ·No platform fee, no per-seat charges
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Enterprise
Larger programs, multi-entity, MSP replacement
UK rate
~20% + £3–4/hr
Statutory at cost, with no markup at any wage level.
Every employer statutory cost, including employer NI, auto-enrolment pension, the apprenticeship levy, passes through at our actual cost with no markup. HQ Simple's only fee is £3–4/hr per worker, depending on program scale. Suits higher-wage roles and longer assignments. Employer NI has no upper limit here, so the saving comes from paying statutory costs at our cost, not inside someone else's margin.
How billing works
  • ·Our only fee: £3–4/hr per worker
  • ·Everything else at our actual cost, no markup
  • ·Employer NI and pension at cost, at any wage level
Run your numbers
Every plan includes
Direct EOR in the UK plus 3 more countries; vetted specialist partners in 75 more
Employer NI, auto-enrolment pension and the apprenticeship levy all handled
Auto-enrolment pension, private medical and life cover, where you offer them
ENGAGE platform + AI classification + free ATS
Full UK employment rights and the same benefits as your own employees
People-before-technology customer service, same-day every weekday
No minimums, ever
No minimum headcount, no required hours. One worker or one hundred, the rate is the rate.
3-year rate, no teaser
Secured by a refundable one-week-invoice deposit. Returned or applied to your final invoice at term end.
Role classification affects the rate
Rates assume salaried office roles. Hourly, irregular-hours and high-risk classifications quote separately.
Rates exclude VAT
Whether VAT applies, and to what, depends on whether we invoice a UK entity or one overseas. We set the position out on your quote.
Two calculators

Two ways to see what you're really paying in the United Kingdom.

First, we expose the effective markup rateon a SaaS EOR after platform fees and add-ons. Then, we show what you'd pay on our cost-plus model for the same program, in the United Kingdom.

Calculator 1 · vs. SaaS EORs

What's your effective markup with Deel, Rippling or Remote?

SaaS EORs quote you a 28% markup on payroll and a ~£629/month per-worker platform fee, then add a setup fee per worker on day one and an offboarding fee per worker on the way out. In the U.K. they typically run through a local partner, who adds their own profit and G&A on top, so you're paying two margins instead of one. Your effectivemarkup ends up well above the headline. Set just three things (workers, pay rate, assignment length) and we'll show what you're actually paying versus HQ Simple's flat published markup (33% on a 3-year term, everything included).

Country
Your program
25
1250
£35/hr
15180
52 wk
4≈ 12 mos billed104
What we assumed (industry averages)
Ordinary hours37.5 hrs/week
SaaS EOR platform fee (mid-market plan)£629/mo per worker
SaaS payroll markup28% on wages
Local partner profit / G&A5% on wages
Onboarding / setup£350 per worker
Offboarding£525 per worker
Effective markup with a SaaS EOR
45.3%
You signed up for 28% on payroll. Most SaaS EORs deliver through a local partner in the U.K., even where they hold an entity there, and that partner adds 5% profit / G&A. After that, platform fees, and add-ons, you're actually paying 45.3% of wages, a 17.3-point hidden uplift.
Total cost (SaaS EOR)
£2,479,888
vs. £1,706,250 of wages over 52 wk
HQ Simple · 33% on 3-yr flat markup
£2,269,313
Lowest published rate. No platform fee, no setup fee, no offboarding fee.
Where the SaaS bill goes
Payroll markup on wages (28% SaaS + 5% local partner)£563,063
Platform fee (12 mos × 25 workers)£188,700
Setup / onboarding (one-time per worker)£8,750
Offboarding (per worker)£13,125
Savings with HQ Simple£210,575
Illustrative. Defaults reflect mid-points from public SaaS EOR price lists. SaaS EORs bill in whole months; a 4-week assignment counts as one month of platform fee. Setup and offboarding are billed per worker but rarely quoted up front.
Calculator 2 · cost-plus alternative

Cost-plus pricing: ~20% statutory at cost + £3–4/hr.

On higher-wage roles and larger programs, cost-plus usually comes in under both our flat markup and the big providers' 33% plus a monthly admin fee. Our admin is a fixed amount per hour, so the higher the wage, the less it costs as a percentage. You see exactly what we charge: statutory employer costs at our actual cost, roughly 20% of wages, plus £3–4/hr per worker, depending on program scale. No platform fee, no FX skim, no add-on SKUs. Move the sliders to see where you land.

Your program
50
5500
£35/hr
15180
52 wk
4≈ 12.0 months104
What we assumed (industry standard)
Ordinary hours37.5 hrs/week
Other-provider markup33% on wages
Other-provider admin (cheapest in-country plan)£499/mo per worker
Statutory pass-through (at cost)~20% of wages
HQ Simple admin£3–4/hour per worker (illustrated at the low end)
Estimated savings with HQ Simple
£450,525
~9.3% lower than the industry baseline · illustrative
Industry baseline
£4,838,025
33% markup + £499/mo admin
With HQ Simple
£4,387,500
Enterprise cost-plus
The HQ Simple cost-plus model
20% statutory, at cost+£3–4/hour all-in admin per worker (scales with program size). No platform fee. No FX skim. No add-on SKUs.
Total wages this program: £3,412,500 · 97,500 billable hours over ~12.0 months
Illustrative. Final pricing reflects worker mix, geography, and your PAYE employee versus contractor split. We'll quote real numbers on a 30-minute call.
The honest list

What's included. What isn't. What costs more.

We'd rather over-tell you up front than spring a line item on the third invoice. Here's the breakdown, including the things we charge extra for.

Always included
We are the legal Employer of Record (full liability)
People-before-technology customer service
ENGAGE platform: dashboard, ATS, AI compliance
Worker onboarding in their own language
Mid-market FX on conversions, or invoice in local currency
Never charged extra
Per-seat fees for your internal team
Add-on for ATS, compliance, or reporting
API access and standard integrations
Implementation fees
Migration from another EOR
Calls to a real human
Costs extra (honest)
Sourcing service (in-house recruiters, flat fee)
Equipment provisioning if you want us to ship
Translation into a language the law doesn't require (French in Quebec is included)
Multi-entity consolidated reporting
The honest FAQ

Questions other EORs avoid.

We'll answer these on a call too, but here's the short version.

In the UK, simple markup on wages is a single percentage on payroll quoted ahead of time: 35% on wages, with every statutory cost included. Cost-plus passes employer statutory costs through at our actual cost (effective rate ~20% on average, varies by wage and worker mix) plus £3–4/hour per worker as our only fee. Simple markup is easiest for budgeting on smaller programs; cost-plus usually wins on higher-wage roles and longer assignments. We will model both against your actual numbers on a call.
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