Clear Pricing, No Surprises

With Atlas HXM, you pay the following costs per employee: 

• Monthly Platform Fee: This is a monthly administrative fee per employee hired through our EOR platform. 

• Local Employer Services (LES) Rate: This blended rate covers the mandatory costs and contributions of complying with employment laws, taxes, and regulations, and the overall costs of doing business in a chosen country. 

• Foreign Exchange (F/X): A rate applicable for the service of converting invoice currency into the local currency if different. 

• Benefits Administration: Premiums for additional benefits coverage for employees. 

Every country has unique immigration laws and requirements, which can make it a long and difficult process when you need talent outside their country of citizenship or permanent residency. In such instances, Atlas HXM ensures that your employees have the appropriate work authorization, visas, and other documentation to start working wherever you choose.

Where required, visa sponsorship is an extra charge on top of the Employer of Record service fee. This is charged on a per-visa basis. The Atlas HXM team will work with you to determine the appropriate work permit category for your employees and provide end-to-end support in the visa application process.

Working with an EOR provider, like Atlas HXM, allows you to circumvent a lot of the costs associated with setting up your own entities, including entity incorporation fees, legal fees, and local accounting costs. As such, working with Atlas HXM means that you could save as much as 83% on the costs of hiring abroad compared to doing it yourself. ^*

* Average calculations at the time of publication based on an organization in the United States employing one employee in the United Kingdom at a gross annual salary equivalent to USD $50,000.

Our pricing structure is there to support your growth, so as your business expands, you can benefit from economies of scale and drive down the total cost of doing business with us.

Some of the aspects that drive overall pricing are:

• The number of employees.

• The employees’ gross salary

• The Local Employer Services (LES) Rate, based on the specific country/countries of employment

Plus, any other non-discretionary additional requirements that you may need.

With an international workforce, it is important to consider local employment law and regulations concerning notice periods and severance payment when terminating an employee. Partnering with an EOR means that all employee terminations are conducted in full adherence with local laws, keeping you informed throughout the process, and mitigating any risk of or challenge to a decision to terminate. Atlas HXM follows best practices in offboarding employees, including the signing of a mutual termination agreement, ensuring that the employment ends cleanly and compliantly.

Similarly, if an employee resigns, they will follow all local statutory requirements and the specific terms and conditions laid out in their employment agreement.

EOR is for employees; AOR is for independent contractors. Under Employer of Record (EOR), Atlas HXM becomes the legal employer and runs payroll. Under AOR, Atlas HXM has no employment relationship with the contractor — it acts only as your authorized agent, and you contract with the contractor directly. The two are execution paths that follow from the worker classification decision, not competing products.

The decisive difference is who holds the contract. Under Contractor of Record (COR), the provider becomes the contracting party with the contractor. Under AOR, you keep the direct contract with the contractor and the provider acts only as your authorized agent. Atlas HXM offers AOR, not COR.

If a contractor Atlas HXM has classified is later found to be misclassified, Classification Protection helps cover the financial costs — it is not a promise that a classification is guaranteed “correct,” or that misclassification can’t happen. Reimbursement covers documented reclassification costs, back taxes, and unpaid employer-side taxes (excluding penalties, interest, and liquidated damages), up to $100,000 per contractor per month and $1,000,000 in the aggregate per client, subject to your Atlas HXM AOR services agreement. Amounts exceeding these limits are not covered. All reimbursement claims must be made to Atlas HXM within 12 months from the latest classification assessment and no material change has occurred to the factors on which the original classification was based (including role scope, responsibilities, work location or engagement terms).

You don’t start over. Your engagement data and history carry across, Atlas HXM flags the employment need, and a specialist guides you through the move to EOR. If your classification assessment shows a worker should be an employee, the classification fees you’ve paid are credited toward your EOR engagement, subject to eligibility and terms.