How Yepaa builds a planning estimate
The model is deliberately inspectable. It combines a comparable labour-cost baseline, a visible uncertainty range, your assumptions and current public service fees.
1. Employer contributions
Our baseline is OECD Taxing Wages 2026, Table 1.2, using the 2025 model for a single worker without children at the average wage. The OECD reports employer social-security contributions and applicable payroll taxes as a share of total labour cost.
We convert that share into an approximate percentage of gross salary using contribution share ÷ (100 − contribution share). We then apply a country-specific planning band. Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Chile and Colombia receive explicit adjustments because important compulsory or quasi-compulsory costs are not fully represented by the comparable OECD tax classification.
2. Route costs
The EOR route adds the lowest and highest current public monthly prices among the compared providers. The entity route adds a planning range for incorporation, payroll, accounting and annual compliance; these are budget allowances, not jurisdiction-specific legal quotes. The contractor route adds platform administration but excludes employee contributions.
The entity break-even is a fixed-cost planning signal: midpoint annual entity overhead plus one third of midpoint setup cost, divided by the midpoint annual EOR fee. It is not a legal recommendation.
3. Currency and limits
Exchange rates refresh from the European Central Bank reference feed. If the feed is temporarily unavailable, Yepaa uses its last successful cache and then a bundled fallback marked by date.
Results exclude employee income tax, employee deductions, equity, bonuses, immigration, severance, one-off deposits, sector agreements and provider add-ons. Always obtain a country-specific quote before making an offer.
Last updated: 21 August 2026