Hiring in Canada through an Employer of Record
A Canadian employer matches the worker's Canada Pension Plan contribution, rate for rate.
On top of salary, the employer pays
- 5.95% Canada Pension Plan, employer share
What the employer pays on top of salary in Canada
- Canada Pension Plan, employer share: 5.95 percent of earnings between a basic exemption and a yearly cap.
The pension charge stops at a yearly earnings cap, and this works it out on the whole salary, so it runs high for well paid staff. Employment Insurance, which the employer also pays, is left out: the government states it only as a multiple of the worker's rate, and this site does not publish a figure it cannot find written down.
Yearly cost of one employee in Canada, by vendor
Salary plus the charges above plus the vendor's published monthly fee, for twelve months. Not included: benefits and currency conversion fees.
Vendor fees used
Atlas HXM $599, Deel $599, G-P $599, Multiplier $459, Oyster $699, RemoFirst $199, Remote $699, Skuad $199, Velocity Global (Pebl) $399. Not published: Rippling.
Where these numbers come from
- Canada Pension Plan, employer share on canada.ca read
- Each vendor's own pricing page, linked from its name above.