How to hire a remote worker
based in Germany
Global hiring is a tough challenge. With our hiring guide, you can see all possibilities you have for hiring a remote worker based in Germany.
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Multiplier
Multiplier is a leading global employment solution that is focused on rebalancing the demand and supply of global employment. To help businesses overcome the legal hurdles of hiring global talent, Multiplier is helping companies compliantly employ talent across any market without the need to establish a legal entity. It also simplifies the employment process by taking charge of the complexities involved in handling the payroll, employment contracts, taxes, and benefits while complying with employment laws, both local and global. The company works with customers from across the globe today, with its roots in the Asia Pacific region. Users can manage global payroll, provide benefits, insurance and tackle compliance with ease starting at $300 per employee per month and $40 per freelancer per month. In geographies where businesses have their own entities, Multiplier helps companies manage payroll for their employees starting at $20 per employee per month.
Positives
- Easy-to-use self-register platform
- Legally compliant and instant contracts
- Manage Payroll and Benefits starting at $20 per employee /month
- Manage Freelancer Payments at $40 per freelancer / month
- Facilitate ESOPs and Cryptopayments
- 24/7 support guaranteed
- GDPR, SOC2 and ISO27001 compliant
- Entities across 150+ countries
Negatives
- Flat and Transparent pricing may not be fancy
- Expense Management and Time-off
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Local sub-corporation
The legally compliant way to hire employees in any country of the world is to set up a sub-corporation in said country. Depending on the country, this is easier said than done and often needs local representation. It's therefore only realistic to do if you are planning on quickly hiring a larger team in a specific country or are already working with a big workforce in a specifc country.
Positives
- legally compliant
- possible worldwide
- employee protection
Negatives
- expensive
- large overhead and operational cost
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Independent contractor
The catch-all solution to hiring remote workers is to do so as independent contractors. ICA (Independent Contractor Agreements) are usually simple and short contracts that are legally compliant in some form or another in any country of the world.
The important distinction here is that independent contractors are not legally employed as employees. In their respective jurisdictions, your employees may therefore not be legally protected under employment laws, but are self-employed.
Positives
- extremely simple to set up
- cheap to set up and run
- no legal overhead for company
Negatives
- not protected as employee
- higher overhead and cost for employee
- missing local perks and pension regulations
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Skuad
Skuad is a fast growing global employment and payroll platform. It enables companies to employ and pay exceptional talent anywhere in the world, compliantly.
Skuad’s digital employment infrastructure ensures companies can hire, onboard and pay employees and contractors in 160+ countries, without setting up local entities, on a single unified dashboard. Skuad’s legal infrastructure manages all local compliances, and provides a range of amazing country-specific benefits and insurance packages.
Skuad is built for the new world of work, where large enterprises and emerging startups can access the best talent globally, to grow their business and build diverse distributed teams. There are no upfront fees, hidden costs or long-term lock-ins involved.
Positives
- Easy pricing - start for free; cancel any time
- Pay contractors for free lifetime
- Local HR compliance
- Risk management
- Seamless onboarding of employees
- GDPR compliant
Negatives
- Not all entities are self-owned
- A handful of integrations
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Boundless
Boundless is a smaller employer of record (or EOR) service that allows to hire in a handful of countries across the globe. In return, the pricing of this service is on the lower side. With 8% of the total payroll, Boundless covers gross payment, employer tax contributions, pension contributions and employee benefits.
Positives
- on the cheaper side for a EOR service
- less overhead than contracting
- employee protection
Negatives
- not a lot of coverage
- more expensive than alternatives
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Plane
Plane takes care of payroll, benefits, and compliance for US-based companies hiring remote employees and contractors internationally. Onboard and pay employees in 160+ countries without having to set up local entities. Plane handles employment paperwork, tax withholding, and more, with contracts that support a streamlined, two-step IP transfer. If you’re hiring contractors instead, you can use Plane to onboard and pay contractors in 240+ countries, with no markup fees. Payments are sent directly to contractors’ bank accounts, so that they don’t need to use an e-wallet. The employee plan has a flat fee starting from $299/month/employee, and the contractor plan has a flat fee of $29/month/contractor.
Positives
- supports both international contractors and employees
- less administrative overhead
- wide coverage in nearly all countries
- local, tax, and SOC 2 compliance
Negatives
- specializes in US-based companies only
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Shield GEO
Shield GEO is an international employer of record (or EOR) allowing you to use their services to hire remote employees in their countries of operation. Shield GEO is one of the services that has the widest coverage of operation, making it possible to hire employees in almost any country in the world.
Additionally to EOR services, Shield GEO also offers tax, compliance and payroll consultations.
Positives
- cheap EOR service
- wide coverage
- a lot of experience
Negatives
- bigger overhead than competitors
- more expensive than other hiring methods
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Deel
Deel is a payment solution and management software for remote teams that are planning to onboard remote employees in the form of contractors. The issue that Deel solves here is establishing legally compliant contracts with everyone and running payroll, making sure that everyone gets paid on time, no matter where they are.
Compared to running your own payroll, this obviously comes at a cost. However, the cost is substantially lower than a EOR (employer of record) solution and starting at just $50/month.
Positives
- less overhead
- simple, cheap pricing
- legally compliant
Negatives
- no local employee benefits
- cost scales per contract
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Papaya Global
Papaya is a leading employer of record (or EOR) service, as well as contractor management system, that allows you to hire employees worldwide and manage contracting agreement all in one place.
With a pricing point starting at $770 flat per employee and month, it's on the cheaper side of global payroll services. In return for that, Papaya provides employees with tax filing, cross-border payments, compliance checks and more.
Positives
- comparatively cheap EOR service
- wide coverage
- also offers contracting payroll
Negatives
- flat fee might not be attractive
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Parakar
Parakar is a EOR service offering services for employees and freelancers in central and western europe, namely Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, France and Spain. As such, they are a more local alternative without a fixed pricing regime. Custom solutions are likely possible.
Positives
- local in central/western europe
- likely to offer custom solutions
Negatives
- low global coverage
- pricing unclear
