How we check, order and get paid

Two kinds of data, two kinds of source.

Country rules: For each country: employer social contribution rates and what they are charged on, contribution ceilings, the minimum wage, minimum paid holiday, maximum probation, the employer's notice period at one and three years of service, and who pays sick pay for how long. We read each one on an official source: the statute itself (for example on boe.es or gesetze-im-internet.de) or the government, tax or social security authority's own pages. A secondary site can point us to a rule; it never supplies the number.

Providers: For each employer of record in each country: the published price and its currency, whether the provider says it employs through its own entity or a partner, any setup fee, deposit or minimum term it states, and the onboarding time it claims. We read these on the provider's own website. Several load their prices with scripts, so we open those pages in a browser rather than trust the raw page. If a page says nothing, we write "not stated" rather than fill the gap. A price we can only find on someone else's site is not shown as the provider's price.

Every number on the site carries its source link and the date we checked it. The site will not build if a number is missing either one. We recheck every country and every provider once a month.

Provider tables sort by published price, lowest first. You can re-sort by any column.

There is no overall score yet. A score needs weights, and weights are opinions; we would rather show you the columns and let you weigh them. If we add one later, this page will say how it works before it appears in a table.

Providers that do not publish a price are still listed, at the end of the table, and the table says so. Paid placements never change the order.

This site is free to read. Providers can pay for a featured slot. The rules:

• A paid slot is labelled "Featured partner (paid)", every time, in the same place.
• It never moves a provider up or down the table. The order is the price order, paid or not.
• It never changes the facts we show about that provider. Price, entity, terms and dates come from the same checks as everyone else's.
• Not paying never removes a provider from the table.
• A provider cannot pay to have a correction made. Corrections go through the process below, with a source, like anyone's.

If you ever see a paid slot without the label, or out of order, tell us. That is a bug, and we will treat it as one.

Spotted a wrong number? Tell us which number, on which page, and link the official source that shows the right one. Providers can do the same for their own row, with a link to their own page.

We check the source, and if it holds, we change the number and its checked date. Every change goes into the change log with the old value, the new value, the date and the source. We do not quietly edit numbers.

founderjob shows employer costs and provider facts with their sources. It is not legal or tax advice, and it does not cover the employee's own tax. Rules change and individual cases differ, so check your situation with a lawyer or tax adviser in the country before you sign.