Global Employment Made Easy
Combine PayFit's intuitive payroll solutions with Oyster's comprehensive global employment platform to ensure compliance, efficiency, and a superior employee experience - no matter where your team is located.
20% OFF THE SUBSCRIPTION FEE FOR THE FIRST 12 MONTHS FOR THE FIRST 7 TEAM MEMBERS*
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More than 1,500 companies trust us with their teams
Why you need Oyster
With Oyster, you can employ the best talent in 180+ countries
Without Oyster you are limited to hiring only where you have entities
“Remote work increases employee happiness by 20%” —Forbes
Without us
Only hire in your own country, limiting your talent pool
Set up expensive entities in new countries
Work with slow legacy EORs
With Oyster
Use one platform to hire in 180+ countries
Compliantly onboard, pay, and manage global talent
Speed up hiring through automations and expert support
How it works
Hire overseas without setting up an entity
Thanks to our owned entities, trusted partners, and automated platform, Oyster offers a fast and compliant employer of record (EOR) solution to help you work with global talent.
Receive a cost estimate before you hire
Use our free employment cost calculator to explore the total cost of hiring around the world.
Generate 100% compliant, legal-reviewed agreements
Hire compliantly with pre-populated statutory terms and deep employment intelligence.
Access robust and specialized support
From visa sponsorship to onboarding and offboarding, a team of experts is always by your side.
Pay your global team on time in 120+ currencies
Oyster eliminates the complexities of global payroll. Use one platform to pay your team, manage invoices and reimbursements, and access detailed payroll reports.
Meet local payroll requirements
Oyster handles all payroll compliance requirements: tax withholdings, social contributions, currency conversion, and more.
Process invoices, expenses, and bonuses
Find in-platform features to manage all sorts of ad-hoc payments for global employees.
Stay on top of your payroll costs
Keep a clear payroll structure with a single invoice for all team members, and access detailed reports as needed.
Reward your global team fairly
Oyster gives you access to local employment intelligence and tools so you can create location-tailored offers that are compliant, competitive, and equitable.
Find real-world salary data
Use our salary insights tool to find out the low, mid, and high salary figures for specific roles based on location.
Offer competitive benefits packages
Choose from pre-created local and global benefits packages, and enroll people effortlessly right from the platform.
Offer equity compensation
Use our equity assessment tool to learn how to offer equity compliantly. Then manage it all within the platform.
Ready to hire?
Your Oyster subscription fee includes everything you need to compliantly hire, pay, and manage global Team Members.
Contractor
All-in-one solution to hire, pay, and manage contractors in 180+ countries.
30 days for free
Then USD 29 per contractor per month
Generate compliant agreements to hire global contractors
Onboard contractors in minutes
Process invoices and payments on time in 140+ currencies
Manage expenses, allowances, time off, and reports
Employee
Global Employer of Record and end-to-end employee management solution to compliantly hire, pay, and care for full-time talent.
Starts at
USD 599 USD 479
Per employee per month
Hire full-timers in 130+ countries with compliance and liability coverage
Reduce time-to-hire with automations, integrations, and insights
Set up global payroll and manage expenses, allowances, and bonuses
Offer competitive local and global benefits packages
Reduce risks with IP protection
Scale
Seat-based, annual subscription to hire 5+ global team members efficiently and cost-effectively.
Custom pricing
This product is paid annually
Access global Employer of Record and employee management solutions
Lock in reduced rates by purchasing 5+ annual seats for your global team
Reuse empty seats at no additional cost
Work with dedicated customer success and account managers
Benefit from speedy bulk hiring and onboarding
What will your story be?
We help teams grow faster across borders
David Dawoud
Head of People,
Demodesk
“
Without a solution like Oyster, it’s not even worth the hassle. You just end up deciding, ‘We’re not going to hire there.’ It basically restricts you from getting access to talent. Oyster takes that all away. That’s what makes Oyster great."
Tyler Parson
VP of People,
Chili Piper
“
We trust with Oyster that we did do it right because we enlisted their help to help us do these things perfectly. So from a leader perspective, I can sleep easy at night knowing that we're not breaking some law that I didn't even know existed.”
Alex Nicolaus
Chief People Officer,
Paysend
“
The service is seamless, the communication is very good, and there’s definitely a lot of time and cost saved. The cost of using Oyster is less than what it would cost for us to deliver the same service using external consultants.”
FAQs
What does global hiring mean?
Global hiring, or global employment, is the ability to hire, pay, and manage talent based in other countries. For example, if your business primarily operates in Canada, a global employment platform like Oyster would enable you to hire and pay contractors and full-time Team Members located in other parts of the world.
What is an EOR?
An employer of record (EOR) is an entity that legally employs workers on behalf of another business. An EOR takes full responsibility for all aspects of employment, including compliance, payroll, taxes, and benefits. Oyster offers an EOR solution in 130+ countries powered by an automated global employment platform to streamline all employment functions.
Is Oyster the legal employer of global Team Members?
For full-time Team Members, Oyster is the legal employer and is solely and exclusively responsible for their employment and engagement. Team Members employed by Oyster provide services to your organization as agreed upon in a Service Agreement.
The leading global employment platform in the market
Oyster
Others
Maximum country coverage: 180+ countries.
Limited country coverage.
Bulletproof compliance throughout the employment cycle.
Issues with misclassification and compliance.
Expansive insurance coverage exceeding $8,000,000 USD.
Low insurance coverage. Unclear policy terms.
Hiring in as fast 48 hours with the help of intelligent insights, templates, pre-populated terms, contract quality scores, and a hiring success team.
Slower hiring and onboarding process. Limited guidance.
Deep, local, and actionable employment intelligence: #1 reason customers choose Oyster.
Limited insights. Knowledge not embedded in the platform.
Superior customer experience with 90% CSAT.
Subpar customer support. Long resolution times.
Local experts on HR, legal, payroll, and total rewards.
Low confidence in local expertise.
Strategic partnership to support complex cases including multi-country expansion, entity shutdown, EOR migration, and contractor conversion.
Transactional hiring support for relatively simple scenarios.
Deep integrations across HRIS, ERP, expense management, team productivity, and equity platforms.
Fewer integrations, leading to more manual work.
Transparent pricing with an all-inclusive fee structure.
Extra fees for platform use and offboarding. Tax miscalculations. Inconsistent deposit requirements.
Ready to build a world-class team?
Book some time with us to get a tailored discussion on how Oyster fits into your big (global) picture.
