Employer of record, local entity or contractor
How the three routes compare for a company making its first hire in another country.
Topic: Hiring structuresHiring across borders
Independent, source-cited guides to hiring internationally.
Dariag is an English-language publication for founders, operations and HR teams who need to hire people in another country. They need to understand the options, the costs and the obligations.
01Our purpose
Clear answers to the questions behind an international hire.
Which route fits a company's first hire in another country? What does an employee really cost? How do providers compare on the facts that matter? Each guide will cite official sources, such as the government agencies and statutory bodies of the country it covers, and will show the date its facts were checked.
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Independent
We are not a law firm, an accounting firm, an employer of record or a payroll provider. A possible commission does not decide which providers we include or how we describe them.
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Source-based
Figures and rules come from primary sources wherever possible. Our guides show the source of each factual figure and the date it was checked.
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Transparent
Dariag currently has no affiliate links and earns no commissions. If that changes, pages will say so clearly, near the links.
02Guides
The first guides, in preparation.
Our first guides cover the decisions a company faces when it hires in another country. They are not published yet. Each will appear here once it has been checked against its sources.
What an employee in another country costs
Employer costs, including social-insurance contributions, set out with their sources.
Topic: Employment costsComparing employer-of-record providers
How to compare service providers on the facts that matter for a cross-border hire.
Topic: International business operations03How our guides are built
Every guide shows its working.
Illustration of the guide format. Not a published guide.
The decision first, then the evidence.
Each guide opens with the decision it helps you make, sets out the options in plain language, and links every figure to the source it comes from1.
Where a figure depends on a service provider's own information, such as its prices or coverage, the guide says so and links to it2.
- Facts checked
- The date is shown on every guide
- Sources
- Listed and linked, primary sources first
- Review
- Our editorial process includes human review before publication
- Not advice
- General information, not legal, tax, payroll or employment advice
1, 2: example citation markers. In a published guide, each links to its source and check date.
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04Editorial standards
What you can expect from us.
Affiliate disclosure
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