Employer of Record Services in India for Foreign Companies
You have found the person you want to hire in Bengaluru or Pune. What you do not want is an Indian company, a transfer pricing study and a year of filings before you can pay them.
Profitjets is an employer of record, or EOR, in India. We employ your team through our own Indian entity. We issue the offer letter, run payroll, deduct and deposit PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS, file the returns and issue Form 16. Your people work for you. The employment paperwork is ours.
A flat $75 per employee per month. No setup fee, no onboarding fee, no percentage of salary, no charge per payslip.
The whole fee, and nothing behind it
Most of what makes an employer of record expensive is not the headline number. It is everything that gets added to it afterwards. Here is our entire list of extras.
What Other EOR Providers Charge to Employ One Person in India
Hire employees in India without setting up your own local entity. Here are the two things to know before you compare
The statutory cost is the same whoever employs them
Provident fund, ESI, gratuity, professional tax and the statutory bonus are set by Indian law. They cost the same through any provider. Only the provider fee differs.
Global platforms charge one price worldwide
Deel and Remote publish a single global fee, so a hire in Bengaluru carries the same fee as a hire in Berlin. We employ in India only, and our fee reflects that.
| Provider | Published price | How it is priced |
|---|---|---|
| Remote | $699 per employee per month | One global price, the same for India as for Germany |
| Deel | $599 per employee per month | One global price, the same for India as for Germany |
| Papaya Global | From $499 per employee per month | Quoted, and a deposit is typically held |
| Payoneer Workforce | From $199 per employee per month | Flat fee, tiered by product |
| Profitjets | $75 per employee per month | Flat. India only, which is why it is lower |
Profitjets manages employment administration, payroll, and statutory compliance for a flat $75 per employee per month service fee.
You pay your employee’s salary and applicable employer contributions separately, at cost.
This keeps the service fee transparent and makes it easier to understand your total employment expenses.
What does the $75 monthly fee include?
The $75 monthly fee covers the EOR service for your India-based employee, including employment administration, payroll coordination, and statutory compliance support.
- Employment contracts and onboarding: Offer letters, employment documentation, and onboarding coordination.
- Payroll administration: Monthly payroll processing and payslip management.
- Statutory compliance: Applicable payroll deductions, contributions, and required filings.
- Year-end documentation: Form 16 and relevant employee tax documentation.
- Employee administration: Ongoing employment support and offboarding coordination.
A rough shape of one month for a mid-level hire. Two of these three lines are the same whoever employs your team.
How Profitjets Supports Your Indian Workforce
We employ your India team on our entity and handle everything that comes with it. You manage the work.
You choose the person, the role and the start date. We take on the contract, the payroll and the filings, all covered by the one flat fee, with nothing added on top.
Legal employer and contracts
The employment contract sits with our Indian entity, so your people are employed under Indian law from day one. We draft, issue and sign offer letters to match the role and the terms you agreed with the candidate.
Payroll, run on time
Salary calculated, approved and paid on the same date every month, with the payslip issued against it. Our employer of record payroll services cover the whole cycle, from calculation to payslip.
Statutory deductions, filings and Form 16
Provident fund, ESI, professional tax and TDS deducted, deposited and returned on the statutory dates. Form 16 goes to every employee, so they can file their Indian return without chasing anyone.
Onboarding and offboarding
Joining formalities at the start, full and final settlement at the end, both handled to the Indian rules that apply.
An employee portal
Every employee gets a login. Payslips, tax documents and leave records are theirs to download whenever they want them.
The HR layer around it
Leave, attendance and the employment records an Indian employer is expected to keep, maintained as part of the service. EOR management sits with us, so you do not have to manage EOR in India yourself or turn it into a second job.
Built for Foreign Companies Hiring in India
Expanding into India doesn’t have to start with setting up a local entity. Profitjets helps foreign companies hire employees in India, manage employment responsibilities, and build a local team without the upfront commitment of incorporating a subsidiary.
Your first India hire
You found the person in Bengaluru or Pune. We employ them so you don’t have to incorporate first.
Small teams
One to a handful of employees, where a subsidiary costs more than it saves.
Companies testing the market
Hire now, and decide on an entity later with real headcount and salary figures in front of you.
Indian Subsidiary vs. EOR: Which Is Right for Your Business Expansion
We are accountants, not a software company. Profitjets prepares exactly these filings for clients who do run their own Indian entities, which is why we can tell you plainly when a subsidiary is the better answer for you.
Running your own Indian entity
- Incorporate, then register for PAN, TAN, GST, EPFO and ESIC
- Open an Indian bank account, usually the slowest step of the lot
- File Form FC-GPR and the annual FLA return with the RBI
- Keep a transfer pricing study and file Form 3CEB every year
- Statutory audit, ROC filings and board minutes, whatever the size
- Track every filing deadline yourself, month after month
- Winding it up later is harder and slower than setting it up
Hiring through Profitjets
- No incorporation, because the entity already exists
- No Indian bank account to open and no registrations to wait on
- No FDI filings, because you are not investing capital into India
- No transfer pricing study and no Form 3CEB for the India hire
- No separate audit, no ROC calendar, no board minutes
- One invoice a month covering salary, statutory cost and our fee
- Stopping is as simple as serving notice and settling the final month
India changed its employment law in November 2025
On 21 November 2025 India brought its four labour codes into force, folding 29 separate labour laws into one framework.
The part that matters, if you are thinking of running your own payroll in India, is what happened next. The rollout is staged, the rules underneath the codes are still being notified, and each state is notifying its own. Until a given set of rules is final, the older acts continue to apply alongside the new code.
That is a moving framework to track from another country, in another timezone, for one or two employees. It is the kind of thing an employer of record exists to absorb.
- Code on Wages
- Industrial Relations Code
- Code on Social Security
- Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code
From signed offer to first payday
You choose the person and the package
You run the hiring. You decide the role, the salary and the start date. We tell you the full cost of that package in India before you commit to it.
We issue the offer and onboard them
The offer letter and employment contract go out from our Indian entity, written to Indian law and to the terms you agreed.
They work for you, we employ them
Your team manages their work, their priorities and their reviews. We hold the employment relationship and everything that comes with it.
One invoice a month
Salary, statutory employer cost and our flat fee, on a single invoice, with the payroll register behind it so you can see every line.
Questions, answered
Our fee is a flat $75 per employee per month. On top of that you pay the salary itself and the statutory employer contributions that Indian law requires, which are the same whoever employs your team. There is no setup fee, no onboarding or offboarding fee, and we do not take a percentage of salary.
EOR stands for employer of record. An EOR is a company that already exists in India and employs your people on your behalf, so you need no Indian entity of your own. Our EOR services in India cover the employment contract, payroll, provident fund, ESI, professional tax and TDS, the statutory filings, Form 16 and an employee portal, with onboarding and full and final settlement included.
Our Indian entity is. The employment contract, the payroll, the provident fund and ESI registrations and the tax deductions all sit with us. You direct the work, set the priorities and manage performance exactly as you would with any other member of your team.
Not to employ people. You would need your own entity if you want to sell in India, sign contracts with Indian customers or invoice in India. If all you want is a team, an employer of record does it without incorporation, FDI filings, transfer pricing documentation or an Indian audit.
A proper Indian offer letter and employment contract, salary on the same date each month, a monthly payslip, provident fund and ESI where applicable, Form 16 at the end of the year, and a portal login where they can download all of it themselves.
Because the entity and the registrations already exist, the timeline is the paperwork rather than the setup. Tell us the candidate, the package and the date you want them to join, and we will confirm what is achievable before you make the offer.
Employing through our entity reduces the risk compared with directing people in India yourself with no local structure, but it does not eliminate it. Permanent establishment depends on what your people actually do, in particular whether they conclude contracts on your behalf. It is a question for your tax advisers and we will not tell you otherwise.
Yes. There is no minimum headcount. The same flat fee applies whether you are employing one person or ten, and the service is identical: we are the legal employer, we run payroll and we carry the statutory filings. For one hire an EOR solution in India is almost always cheaper than incorporating, because a subsidiary brings an annual audit, ROC filings and transfer pricing documentation whatever its size.
No. This service is India only, and that is deliberate. Our entity, our payroll team and our compliance work are all Indian, which is why the fee is what it is rather than what a global platform has to charge to cover a hundred countries.
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