Multiplier

Multiplier is a global employment platform aimed squarely at teams that want to hire abroad quickly without assembling a legal project around every offer. Employer of record is the core product, with contractor management, global payroll and employment-adjacent admin around it. The positioning is speed and simplicity rather than breadth — closer to Remote and Oyster than to the widest workforce suites.

What Multiplier actually is

• Employer of record — a local entity becomes the legal employer of your hire, handling contracts, statutory contributions, payroll and benefits.
• Contractor management — compliant contracts, invoicing and international payouts for self-employed workers.
• Global payroll — payroll for countries where you already hold an entity.
• Employment admin — onboarding, expenses, time off and benefits sitting on top of the employment relationship.

What it optimises for

Multiplier's pitch is a short path from decision to signed employment contract, with country-specific compliance handled behind the scenes. For a company making its first few international hires — where the alternative is weeks of legal research and quotes from local providers — that is the whole value. Self-serve onboarding and a comparatively simple product surface keep the evaluation short too, which matters when there is no dedicated people-ops function.

Where to be careful

Speed claims are the easiest thing for any EOR to advertise and the hardest to verify, and onboarding timelines depend heavily on the country and the employee's own documentation. Coverage is never uniform: confirm which employment models your specific markets support, and whether the legal employer there is an owned entity or a partner. As with every EOR, benchmark it against a competitor in the two or three countries you actually care about rather than on global coverage totals.

Pricing

Multiplier prices employer of record per employee per month and contractor management per contractor per month, with annual terms priced differently from monthly. We publish no figures. The platform fee is rarely the biggest number — statutory employer contributions and mandatory benefits in the hiring country usually exceed it — so model fully loaded cost per country on Multiplier's own pricing page and cost tooling.

Who it is for

Small and mid-sized teams making early international hires who want compliant employment without a heavyweight platform, and teams converting existing overseas contractors into employees. Large organisations wanting to consolidate IT, spend and HR under one vendor should look at a unified workforce platform instead.

Verdict

A credible, appropriately narrow employer of record that is easy to adopt and easy to leave. Shortlist it against Remote and Oyster, compare the specific countries you are hiring in, and choose on documented entity arrangements and fully loaded cost rather than on speed marketing.