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Employer of Record & Payroll, across Europe

You have found the person — now you need a compliant way to employ them. JN Recruitment is the expansion partner that connects international companies with vetted Employer of Record and payroll partners: employment lawyers, tax advisors, payroll bureaus, accountants and licensed EOR providers in 26 countries — plus the boutique recruitment that finds the candidate in the first place. Our recommendation is free; you contract directly with the partner at their standard rates.

  1. Tell us about your case

    Which country, how many people, entity or no entity — a 30-minute call is enough to map the compliant route.

  2. We match the specialists

    From our vetted network — licensed EOR providers, payroll bureaus, employment lawyers, tax advisors, accountants — you get exactly the partners your case needs. Free of charge, at the partner’s standard rates.

  3. We find the people

    What we deliver ourselves: boutique headhunting for the technical sales and leadership roles that open the market — employment and payroll plug in behind the signed offer.

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Payroll & EOR Q&A

Employer of Record in Europe: frequently asked questions

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An Employer of Record is a licensed local company that legally employs staff on your behalf in a country where you have no entity: it holds the employment contract under local law, runs payroll, withholds taxes and pays social contributions — while you direct the day-to-day work exactly as if the person were on your own team. You reimburse the EOR for salary and employer costs plus a service fee. It is the standard way to hire abroad without founding a subsidiary first.

Practically, yes — every European market has compliant EOR or equivalent constructs, but the rules differ sharply by country: Germany caps EOR employment at 18 months under its labour-leasing act, France channels it through portage salarial, Belgium restricts labour leasing altogether, and Switzerland requires a SECO licence and Swiss-domiciled provider. That is exactly why we match you with a partner per country instead of selling a one-size-fits-all platform — pick your market below for the specifics.

No — and that is deliberate. JN Recruitment is a boutique recruitment firm and your expansion partner: over years of placing candidates across Europe we have built a vetted network of the best employment lawyers, tax advisors, payroll bureaus, accountants and licensed EOR providers in each market. We recommend exactly the specialists your case needs; you contract directly with the partner at their standard rates, the recommendation costs you nothing, and we stay your single point of contact.

Typical European EOR pricing is a flat monthly fee of roughly €200–700 per employee, or a percentage of gross salary — on top of the salary itself and the country’s employer social contributions (from ≈2% employer-side in Romania to ≈45% in France, so the country choice moves the budget far more than the EOR fee). Payroll-only services for companies with their own entity are typically priced per payslip. We flag the realistic all-in monthly number for your target country before you commit to anything.

As a rule of thumb: an EOR wins for the first one to five employees, for testing a market, and whenever speed matters — the hire can start within days instead of the weeks or months an entity takes. Your own entity wins once the team grows, when you need to sign local contracts and invoices, or where local law caps EOR duration (Germany: 18 months). The clean playbook is EOR as the bridge with the entity switch mapped in advance — our partners handle both ends, including the transfer of employees.

In the US model, a PEO co-employs staff on your existing local entity, while an EOR employs them fully so you need no entity at all. In Europe the label matters less than the construct: most European countries have no true PEO regime, so what providers sell as “PEO” is legally either EOR employment or outsourced payroll and HR administration on your own entity. We translate what you actually need into the legally correct construct for each country before any contract is signed.

Via EOR, a compliant local employment contract is typically ready within three to five working days once the candidate’s documents are complete — the registrations, payroll setup and insurances run through the partner’s existing infrastructure. In practice the binding constraint is usually the candidate’s notice period with their current employer, one to three months for most European professionals. As recruiters, managing exactly that phase — keeping signed candidates committed until day one — is our core craft.

Yes. If your subsidiaries already exist, our partner payroll bureaus take over the monthly payroll runs: payslips, wage-tax filings, social-insurance notifications and year-end reporting, in the local format your accountants need. This also works multi-country — one coordinated setup instead of hunting for a reliable Lohnbüro, gestoría or biuro rachunkowe in every market separately. And where an entity has never employed anyone locally, the partner clears the employer registrations first.

Only if they are genuinely self-employed. Most European countries actively police disguised employment — Scheinselbstständigkeit in Germany, false self-employment audits elsewhere — and a reclassified contractor means back-dated social contributions, largely at your expense. One client, fixed hours and integration into your team are classic red flags everywhere. If the working reality is employment, EOR employment costs little more and removes the risk; our partners also audit and convert existing contractor setups.

Yes — that is the part we deliver ourselves. JN Recruitment is a boutique headhunting firm for technical sales and leadership roles across Europe, with searches run in the local language from our offices in Germany, Poland and Cyprus. The typical engagement runs end-to-end: we find the Country Manager or Sales Manager who opens your market, and the employment, payroll and legal setup from our partner network plugs in behind the signed offer — one point of contact from first interview to first payslip.

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Jonas Strambach – Director & Senior Recruiter, JN Recruitment
Our mission is simple: placements that open new markets.
Jonas Strambach Director & Senior Recruiter, JN Recruitment
Jonas Strambach – Director & Senior Recruiter, JN Recruitment

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