Hiring in United Kingdom through an Employer of Record
A UK employer pays National Insurance on top of salary and must pay into a workplace pension for most staff.
On top of salary, the employer pays
- 15% Employer National Insurance
- 3% Workplace pension, employer minimum
What the employer pays on top of salary in United Kingdom
- Employer National Insurance: 15 percent on pay above a yearly threshold set by HMRC.
- Workplace pension, employer minimum: 3 percent of qualifying earnings, under automatic enrolment.
Both rates are worked out here on the whole salary, while the law applies them only above a threshold or within a pay band, so the totals run slightly high.
Yearly cost of one employee in United Kingdom, by vendor
Salary plus the charges above plus the vendor's published monthly fee, for twelve months. Not included: benefits and currency conversion fees.
Vendor fees used
Atlas HXM $599, Deel $599, G-P $599, Multiplier $459, Oyster $699, RemoFirst $199, Remote $699, Skuad $199, Velocity Global (Pebl) $399. Not published: Rippling.
Where these numbers come from
- Employer National Insurance on gov.uk read
- Workplace pension, employer minimum on gov.uk read
- Each vendor's own pricing page, linked from its name above.