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RemotePeople's price list does not reveal the real seat cost
RemotePeople prices every rail by the head. None of the lines is the work.
Slashdot published a vendor listing for RemotePeople, and the whole thing is a price list. Employer of Record starts at $199 per employee per month according to that listing, with a higher tier at $399. Payroll is priced the same way, by the head. Global from $25, US from $29, a US PEO arrangement from $99. Five numbers. Every one of them prices a seat.
That is what this category sells, and it sells it cheaply. None of the five lines is the work. I do not mean it as a complaint. The vendor is pricing exactly what it does.
What the listing prices
The listing describes hiring in more than 150 countries without standing up a local entity. Contracts, payroll, statutory benefits and compliance sit with the provider. It also splits contractors into two products. Administration runs from $29 per contractor a month. A Contractor of Record arrangement runs from $199, and that gap is the price of somebody standing behind the classification.
Firms underrate that gap. Getting employment status wrong in another country is not a filing error. It is a liability that arrives late, and the people who pay it never chose the platform. I would buy the rails at that price and not argue about it. They are also the entire contents of the quote. Rails, not work.
Where the fee stops
The listing shows the clean cost of employing somebody abroad, not the hour on the other end. Legal process outsourcing changes the cost of producing work, not the cost of reviewing it. An Employer of Record seat changes neither. A licensed attorney reads the output, adopts it and signs it. That hour bills at attorney rate. Whatever the seat cost.
Nobody indemnifies a bad read.
The line nobody quotes
Line up two of these platforms side by side, compare the per-seat fees, and pick the cheaper rail. I would make that comparison too, because it is the only one the page supports. Capability is not answerable in an afternoon, and review capacity is not answerable from a pricing page at all. Everything on the invoice is on the record. The work product is not. Compare the rails, then go find the reviewer.
A payroll rail moves money. It has never read a file.
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