Short answers to the questions buyers ask most often

An Employer of Record is a third party that hires employees locally on your behalf. You direct the employee’s day-to-day work, while the EOR manages compliant contracts, payroll administration, benefits coordination, and routine employer obligations.

Payroll outsourcing keeps your own entity as the legal employer. Farlinko runs the monthly payroll operation, recurring filings, and reporting workflows. EOR is the right path when you need to hire before you have an entity in market.

Typical onboarding often lands in the two-to-four-week range, but timing depends on country, role complexity, background checks, local documentation, and whether benefits or immigration support are involved.

Farlinko supports a broad set of markets. Some countries already have full landing pages and calculator support, while others route directly into expert guidance. The best place to start is the markets directory.

The calculator focuses on local employer cost: salary, employer burden, benefits, bonus assumptions, and an optional entity benchmark. It does not hard-code EOR service fees into the main output because those vary by market and operating model.

EOR pricing changes by country, service level, vendor operating model, and workforce profile. The more reliable self-serve calculation is local employer cost; EOR fees are better handled in a tailored quote after the country and hiring shape are clearer.

Start on the markets directory. If the country is supported but not yet a full landing page, the site will route you into contact-led support instead of pretending the coverage does not exist.