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Pricing

U.S. Employer of Record.
Priced honestly.

Direct entity in the United States. Pass-through, all-inclusive, or cost-plus pricing depending on the size and shape of your program. The two calculators below show what you'd actually pay versus a SaaS EOR.

Three pricing options

Pick the model. The country rate is set.

●One rate · all 50 states

Three ways to buy the same coverage. The percentage reflects U.S. employer burden, and it is the same in all 50 states.

All-inclusive
Bundled simplicity. One number on the invoice.
U.S. rate
23% markup on wages
21% on a 3-year contract
Mandatory paid sick leave, major medical contributions, and background checks are absorbed into the markup. The invoice is the same number every month, in every state.
How billing works
  • ·One bundled markup, every month
  • ·Variable items absorbed into the rate
  • ·No per-engagement line items, ever
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Pass-through
Most teams land here.
U.S. rate
18-20% markup on wages
16% on a 3-year contract
Lower base markup. Three line items pass through at cost only when they're actually incurred. Otherwise identical coverage to All-inclusive.
Pass-through items (only when incurred)
  • ·Mandatory paid sick leave (where state-mandated)
  • ·Major medical contributions (when employee elects)
  • ·Background checks (per engagement)
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Enterprise
Larger programs, multi-entity, MSP replacement
U.S. rate
~11% + $2.25–4.25/hr
Statutory at cost. Effective rate drops as wages scale.
Every employer statutory cost, including payroll taxes, unemployment, workers' comp, passes through at our actual cost with no markup. HQ Simple's only fee is $2.25–4.25/hr per worker, depending on program scale. Best for higher-wage roles and longer assignments, where the effective rate drops below the flat tiers as workers hit annual tax caps.
How billing works
  • ·Our only fee: $2.25–4.25/hr per worker
  • ·Everything else at our actual cost, no markup
  • ·Rate drops as wages cross annual tax caps
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Every plan includes
Direct EOR in the U.S. plus 3 more countries; vetted specialist partners in 75 more
Federal and state payroll taxes, unemployment and workers' comp all handled
Medical, dental, vision and a 401k, where you offer them to your own staff
ENGAGE platform + AI classification + free ATS
The same benefits as your own W-2 employees, plus our four-day workweek commitment
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. Field, shift-based, and high-risk classifications quote separately.
Two calculators

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

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 States.

Calculator 1 · vs. SaaS EORs

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

SaaS EORs quote you a 17% markup on payroll and a ~$799/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. 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 (pass-through from 16%, all-inclusive from 21%, on a 3-year term).

Country
Your program
25
1250
$45/hr
20250
52 wk
4≈ 12 mos billed104
What we assumed (industry averages)
Ordinary hours40 hrs/week
SaaS EOR platform fee (mid-market plan)$799/mo per worker
SaaS payroll markup17% on wages
Onboarding / setup$425 per worker
Offboarding$625 per worker
Effective markup with a SaaS EOR
28.4%
You signed up for 17% on payroll. After platform fees and add-ons, you're actually paying 28.4% of wages, a 11.4-point hidden uplift.
Total cost (SaaS EOR)
$3,003,750
vs. $2,340,000 of wages over 52 wk
HQ Simple · 16% on 3-yr pass-through
$2,714,400
Lowest published rate. No platform fee, no setup fee, no offboarding fee.
Where the SaaS bill goes
Payroll markup on wages (17%)$397,800
Platform fee (12 mos × 25 workers)$239,700
Setup / onboarding (one-time per worker)$10,625
Offboarding (per worker)$15,625
Savings with HQ Simple$289,350
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: ~11% statutory at cost + $2.25–4.25/hr.

On higher-wage roles and larger programs, cost-plus usually comes in under both our flat markup and the big providers' 17% 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 11% of wages, plus $2.25–4.25/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
$45/hr
20250
52 wk
4≈ 12.0 months104
What we assumed (industry standard)
Ordinary hours40 hrs/week
Other-provider markup17% on wages
Other-provider admin (cheapest in-country plan)$599/mo per worker
Statutory pass-through (at cost)~11% of wages
HQ Simple admin$2.25–4.25/hour per worker (illustrated at the low end)
Estimated savings with HQ Simple
$406,200
~7.0% lower than the industry baseline · illustrative
Industry baseline
$5,835,000
17% markup + $599/mo admin
With HQ Simple
$5,428,800
Enterprise cost-plus
The HQ Simple cost-plus model
11% statutory, at cost+$2.25–4.25/hour all-in admin per worker (scales with program size). No platform fee. No FX skim. No add-on SKUs.
Total wages this program: $4,680,000 · 104,000 billable hours over ~12.0 months
Illustrative. Final pricing reflects worker mix, geography, and your W-2 versus 1099 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 U.S., simple markup on wages is a single percentage on payroll quoted ahead of time: 18-20% pass-through or 23% all-inclusive. Cost-plus passes employer statutory costs through at our actual cost (effective rate ~11% on average, varies by wage and worker mix) plus $2.25–4.25/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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