We provide recruitment and Employer of Record services to global businesses looking to build and manage a Legendary team of South African staff in a compliant and cost effective way.
Want our Legends to find your Legends?
No problem.
With years and years of experience and a database to match, we take the pain away. We will; source, vet, and qualify the candidate, you will interview, we will make the offer, get references, sort out the documents and ensure compliance.
We're dedicated to providing tailored solutions for businesses seeking to hire and manage employees within South Africa's legal framework.
Nope, that is totally up to you.
Our Employer of Record service in South Africa is not reliant on you using us for the recruitment of staff.
Equally, we are more than happy to recruit for you if you have an entity in South Africa and will be employing the staff directly.
There is no 'normal', but interviewing a remote worker is significantly different from interviewing a local worker. Whatever your process, consistency is key.
For our own staff, we run a three-stage interview process:
This will depend on a myriad of things, but when we agree on a price, that is what it will be. We run a strict no-surprises policy.
The best price we offered in the last 12 months is 10% of salary; we offered this as a flat fee to an established client into double figures of hiring with us and who also make use of our Employer of Record services.
Our maximum fee in the last 12 months was 30% of salary; this client wanted us to hire a very senior member of staff as a once-off, wanted us to do all the interviews except the final interview and also process onboarding, but into their own business, which might we add, was done seamlessly.
Yes. We only work on jobs that we have exclusivity for. This is because of our service commitment to you; we commit to providing the best service at a reasonable price, and that means dedicating our time to things that we will get paid on.
Lucky for you, we are experts in hiring South Africans and have various guides to salary ranges. Check out our calculator, which gives a rough idea of different roles and what to pay people. If this is a bit too rough for you, please feel free to get in touch with one of our team.
A top tip: In South Africa, the normal reference point is a monthly salary. E.g., in the UK, you might say that someone is on a £50k salary (i.e., annual), whereas in South Africa, someone on a ZAR50k salary would be referring to their monthly salary.
As the Employer of Record (EOR) we hire employees in South Africa on behalf of our clients.
It is a true partnership. Our clients are still in charge of the day-to-day meetings, management, objectives, performance, etc., while we manage the administration, employment compliance, and payroll.
Why are South African Employer of Record services so beneficial to companies across the UK & Europe, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand.
The vast majority of businesses can use our Employer of Record service in South Africa. Naturally, we vet all our clients to ensure that we are working with the right calibre of client from an industry and credit perspective.
The most common use cases are:
There are 3 employer contributions to pay;
All in all, we make provision for c.3.5% in employer contributions.
There are optional additional employer costs, such as medical aid and pension, that are at the full discretion of the employer. We can add these on as part of packages; this certainly helps attract the best-caliber talent.
In addition to the salary and benefits/variable compensation, we charge a fixed and clear amount to our clients. We run a strict no surprises policy, but this cost really is variable from client to client depending on requirements.
We tell clients to budget for 10% of the gross cost, with a minimum amount per staff member.
South African pay cycles are monthly, and payday falls on the 25th of the month (or the working day immediately after).
We will bill you a single amount from the UK in your local currency.
We get preferential FX rates and know how painful FX can be, but if you insist, we can bill you in South African Rand.
If it is GBP, we will take payment from you on payday by direct debit. If it is another currency, we will require payment to have hit our account by payday.
We have a per-payroll charge of £25, which covers the cost of our same-day transfers to staff in South Africa.
South African policy is to encourage foreign business investment in the country. As such, they understand the requirement for robustness when it comes to data security, IP, and confidentiality. So do we.
Employing staff in a foreign country is not simple.
We know that, and we are here to help. We have come up with a menu of international support services that we can offer to you and your staff in South Africa. We either have a dedicated internal team or we have built a roster of best-in-class partners to solve every issue that we and our clients have come across so far.
Please try us!
Navigating the intricacies of hiring remote workers in a foreign country can be a daunting. However, with the assistance of an employer of record (EOR), the process becomes streamlined and efficient.
We have a menu of services ranging from IT support to industrial relations support, office space for your staff, and much, much more. Each of these have a standard rate that we charge to all clients.
The pricing on these are fixed, which means they are both explicitly transparent and non-negotiable.
Lucky for you, we have access to a top of the range office space in Cape Town.
We host private offices and coworking spaces for our EOR clients at our office in Foreshore, Cape Town. The office has a premium setup with a huge amount of free amenities, is in a prime location, and crucially, has a world-class view. These setups are on our menu and have a clear and transparent pricing structure.
We also have access to an assortment of other private office spaces through our partners for longer-term and larger scale office requirements. Prices and commitments vary.
We can source, set up, deliver, collect, and wipe your IT. Our IT team will liaise with your in-house IT team to ensure appropriate hardware, appropriate setup, and data protection for your requirements. The pricing for all these elements are totally transparent and fixed on the menu.
Alternatively, some of our clients give the staff member a budget and let them get on with it directly. It's totally up to you.
Anything that is chargeable will be informed of and approved of prior to any work being undertaken. All part of the no surprises policy. As a general rule, if our HR team can do it ourselves from the comfort of our desks, it is all part of the service.
Get in touch immediately, we love a challenge.
Last year, we organised, amongst other items not on the menu; childcare for one of our clients' while she was in Cape Town with all the family and for one of our EOR staff to get a passport and British travel visa.
We run a strict "no-surprises" policy.
All your recruitment and Employer of Record pricing will be explicitly clear in your agreement. Our International Support Services are priced per our menu, which is public.
Our customer service is truly Legendary.
You will get a dedicated account manager, HR expert and finance contact. We will catch up with all your staff regularly and be able to give insights and relevant feedback.
Bespoke agreements. We can be your dynamic one-stop shop for recruitment and employer of record services in South Africa, or pick and choose aspects of what we can do.
Seamless, digitalised and incredibly easy on-and-offboarding process. Self-bill with payments taken in your local currency (if GBP, taken automatically on payday).
We will take on the task of finding any hires in South Africa.
However, there are 4 distinct specialisms of staff that our clients have found the most success with.
Why are South African Employer of Record services so beneficial to companies across the UK & Europe, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand.
Hiring the right staff is crucial for the success of any business, and this holds particularly true in South Africa, a country with its own unique socio-economic landscape and labor laws.
