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EOR Cost in Vietnam 2026: Full Price Range by Pricing Model

By Nguyễn Quốc Trung — Deputy General Director · Updated 2026-09-13

Across the two dozen Employer of Record providers whose own pricing pages we read on 13 September 2026, published service fees for employing one person in Vietnam fall into three pricing models — a flat fee per employee, a percentage of salary or of total employment cost, and a percentage with a floor and a cap — with flat headline fees running from USD 99 to USD 699 per employee per month and percentage fees moving with the salary.

That range is only the provider's fee — one layer of the cost. The other layer, the statutory cost of employing the person, is set by Vietnamese law and is identical whichever provider you choose: employer contributions of about 23.5% of the contribution base for a Vietnamese national and 22.5% for a foreign national, and 8% VAT charged on the whole invoice. A headline of "USD 199 a month" is therefore not what it costs to employ anyone; it is the fee sitting on top of a salary and a fixed statutory bill. This article surveys what the market charges, lowest to highest, by pricing model, and shows why two headline fees are rarely comparable. For how one provider's fee, floor, cap and VAT are built line by line, see our EOR pricing breakdown for Vietnam; for the full annual cost of a hire by role, see our total cost of a hire in Vietnam by role.

Every price here was read on the provider's own pricing page on 13 September 2026 and is listed with its URL at the end. Prices change; confirm the current figure with the provider before you rely on it. Figures are stated in the currency each provider publishes, and US dollar equivalents of Vietnamese dong use an indicative rate of USD 1 = VND 26,250.

Key facts: EOR prices in Vietnam in 2026

• Flat headline fees run from USD 99 to USD 699 per employee per month across the providers whose own pages we read on 13 September 2026; percentage-based fees have no single headline because they move with the salary.
• Three pricing models are in use: a flat fee per employee, most common among global platforms and quoted in US dollars; a percentage of salary or of total employment cost; and a percentage with a floor and a cap.
• No global platform publishes a Vietnam-specific price. Every global figure is a worldwide "from" rate that varies by country and is quoted individually.
• The fee is only one layer of the cost. Employer statutory contributions of 23.5% for a Vietnamese national or 22.5% for a foreign national, and 8% VAT on the whole invoice, are fixed by law and identical across providers.
• Deposits vary widely. Some providers hold one to two months' payroll as a refundable deposit; others hold none.
• Nhan Kiet's fee is 8% of gross, with a floor of VND 2,600,000 (about USD 99) and a cap of VND 5,200,000 (about USD 199), with no deposit and no onboarding, offboarding or currency-conversion fee.

What does an Employer of Record cost in Vietnam in 2026?

An EOR's published service fee in Vietnam is a flat USD 99 to USD 699 per employee per month for most global platforms, or a percentage that moves with the salary for several Vietnam-focused providers, as of 13 September 2026, but the fee is only part of the cost: employing the person also carries employer statutory contributions of about 23.5% of the contribution base for a Vietnamese national, or 22.5% for a foreign national, and 8% VAT on the whole invoice, both fixed by law and the same whichever provider you use. So the real monthly cost is the gross salary, plus roughly 23.5% in contributions, plus the provider's fee, plus VAT — which in our companion article works out to between about 21% above gross at senior salaries and about 52% at the junior end. The fee alone tells you which provider is cheaper to administer the payroll; it does not tell you what the headcount costs.

The fee is the only line providers genuinely compete on, because the salary is pass-through and the statutory contributions are set by statute. It is also the smaller of those lines at most salaries. That is why a sensible comparison starts by separating the two layers: match providers on the fee, but budget the whole cost from the statutory rates, which our total cost of a hire by role works through at six illustrative salaries.

What are the three EOR pricing models used in Vietnam?

The three EOR pricing models used in Vietnam are a flat fee per employee, a percentage of salary or of total employment cost, and a percentage with a floor and a cap; the difference between them is small at senior salaries and large at junior ones. A flat fee is the same amount whether the employee earns VND 10 million or VND 100 million; a percentage moves with the salary; and a percentage with a floor and a cap never falls below a minimum or rises above a maximum. Which model a provider uses matters more than its headline, because the models cross over at one salary and diverge sharply on either side.

• Flat fee per employee per month. The provider charges the same figure at every salary. This is the model almost every global platform uses, usually quoted in US dollars, typically from USD 199 to USD 699 depending on the provider and what is bundled in. It is predictable, and proportionally expensive for junior roles.
• Percentage of salary or of total employment cost. The fee tracks the salary, so it is low for junior roles and rises for senior ones unless a cap stops it. Among Vietnam-focused providers, Emerhub publishes 10% of the total cost of employment, capped at USD 250.
• Percentage with a floor and a cap. The fee is a percentage but never falls below a stated floor or rises above a stated cap: the floor sets a minimum for the fixed work each headcount takes, the cap keeps the percentage from running up on high salaries. Nhan Kiet publishes this model; how a floor and cap are built line by line is set out in our EOR pricing breakdown for Vietnam.

Which EOR providers publish a price for Vietnam, and what do they charge?

Most global platforms publish a flat "from" price that is worldwide, not Vietnam-specific, while a smaller group of Vietnam-focused providers publish either a percentage model or an itemised local rate; many domestic firms publish no price at all and quote on request. The tables below list only figures read on each provider's own page on 13 September 2026; provider names are used solely to identify the source of each published price.

The global and regional platforms, sorted from lowest published headline to highest:

The Vietnam-focused providers that publish a price:

Several established firms publish no EOR price and quote on request, so they are not in the tables above: Rippling, Reco Manpower, Mercans, Talentnet, ManpowerGroup Vietnam, InCorp, CXC Global, Sunbytes, NetViet and Vremote.

Which EOR in Vietnam is cheapest, and which is most expensive?

There is no single cheapest EOR in Vietnam, because the answer changes with the salary: a flat fee is the same at every salary, while a percentage fee is low for junior roles and higher for senior ones. Among the figures we read on 13 September 2026, flat headline fees start at USD 99 and reach USD 699 per employee per month, charged flat by Remote and Oyster, with Acclime's foreign-national rate at USD 650. The two Vietnam-focused percentage models in our tables never exceed USD 250 per employee per month at any salary.

The two percentage models cross over at a gross salary of about VND 21 million a month. Below it, 10% of total employment cost is the lower fee; above it, 8% of gross with a floor and cap is lower, and the gap widens until both caps apply. Total employment cost here means gross salary plus the employer's statutory contributions, as that provider defines it. The table shows the service-fee line only, converted at USD 1 = VND 26,250:

So which provider costs less depends on the salary you are paying — and, once the statutory layer, VAT and any deposit are added, on more than the fee. The next two sections show why.

Why do published EOR prices for Vietnam range so widely?

Published EOR prices for Vietnam look far apart — from a percentage of a junior salary to a flat USD 699 — because the figures are not measuring the same thing: they use three different pricing models that only line up at one salary, most are global "from" rates rather than Vietnam quotes, and each bundles a different set of costs. A flat USD 599 and a percentage fee with a USD 99 floor are not two prices for one product; they are two products. Comparing them without a salary attached, and without checking what each includes, produces a range that looks like disagreement but is mostly a difference in what is being counted.

Three things drive the spread:

• Model. A flat dollar fee and a floored percentage cross over at one salary and diverge on either side, so they cannot be ranked by headline alone.
• Geography. No global platform publishes a Vietnam price; its "from" rate is a worldwide floor that is quoted higher for harder countries, so the headline understates a real Vietnam quote as often as it flatters it.
• What is bundled. Deposits, onboarding and offboarding fees, currency-conversion margins, platform charges and, for providers such as Atlas, a separate "local employer services" line all sit outside the headline and move the real number.

Why can't you compare a flat dollar fee and a percentage fee without a salary?

You cannot compare a flat dollar fee and a percentage fee without a salary because the flat fee is the same number at every salary while the percentage fee moves with the salary, so the two cross over at one point and diverge sharply on either side of it. At Vietnam's typically lower salaries the gap is large: a flat USD 599 or USD 699 fee can exceed the whole monthly salary of a junior hire, while a floored percentage stays near its minimum. The table below shows the service-fee line only — not the full cost of employment — at three illustrative gross salaries, comparing Nhan Kiet's 8% floor-and-cap fee against flat fees of USD 199, USD 599 and USD 699 converted at USD 1 = VND 26,250.

At a gross of VND 15,000,000, the 8% fee is below its floor, so it is VND 2,600,000 — 17.3% of gross — while a flat USD 199 fee is 34.8% of gross, a flat USD 599 fee is 104.8% and a flat USD 699 fee is 122.3%; at that salary the USD 599 and USD 699 fees each exceed the entire monthly salary. Drop the salary to the Region I minimum wage of VND 5,310,000 (about USD 202) and a flat USD 599 fee is nearly three times the wage, while the floored fee stays at VND 2,600,000. At a gross of VND 90,000,000 the picture converges at the top: the 8% fee reaches its VND 5,200,000 cap (about USD 199, 5.8% of gross), almost exactly the flat USD 199 fee at that salary, but still far below USD 599 or USD 699. This is why any market "range" means little without a salary attached, and why, at Vietnam's salary levels, the pricing model matters more than the headline figure.

What does the service fee leave out of the real cost?

The service fee leaves out the two largest parts of the real cost: the employee's gross salary, which every provider passes through unchanged, and the employer's statutory contributions, which are about 23.5% of the contribution base for a Vietnamese national and 22.5% for a foreign national and are fixed identically for every provider by the Law on Social Insurance 2024 (No. 41/2024/QH15), the Law on Employment 2025 (No. 74/2025/QH15) and the Trade Union Law 2024 (No. 50/2024/QH15). On top of both sits 8% VAT on the whole invoice. Because contributions and VAT are the same across providers, the fee is the only line a provider controls, and it is smaller than the statutory layer at most salaries.

The contribution base is capped, which is why senior hires cost proportionally less: social, health, occupational-accident and trade-union contributions stop growing at a base of VND 50,600,000 a month from 1 July 2026 under Decree 161/2026/ND-CP, while unemployment insurance is capped separately and higher. The mechanism is set out in our article on why senior hires cost less per dollar. To turn any headline fee into a real monthly and annual figure, add these lines: the full method, with worked examples, is in our EOR pricing breakdown and our total cost of a hire by role, or you can model it directly with our free Vietnam salary calculator.

Is VAT included in the quoted EOR price?

No — the headline fee is almost always quoted before VAT, and in Vietnam VAT of 8% applies to the whole EOR invoice, not the fee alone. Because an EOR is supplied as labour sub-leasing under the Labour Code 2019 (No. 45/2019/QH14), the provider is the legal employer and the entire contract value — gross salary, contributions and fee together — is its service revenue, so VAT falls on all of it. The 8% is a reduced rate under Resolution 204/2025/QH15 and Decree 174/2025/ND-CP, in force until 31 December 2026 and reverting to 10% from 2027 unless extended.

This matters most for the global platforms, whose US-dollar pages rarely show Vietnamese VAT at all, and it is one of the biggest traps in reading a Vietnam EOR quote: VAT on the fee alone can understate the tax by several million dong a month per person. The mechanics, and how EOR differs from payroll outsourcing on this point, are in our EOR pricing breakdown.

Do EOR providers in Vietnam charge a deposit?

Some do and some do not, and it is rarely in the headline. Among the pages we read on 13 September 2026, Oyster requires a refundable deposit, Playroll a refundable deposit of about one month's salary, AYP a security deposit in some countries, and Acclime Vietnam a deposit of two months' payroll; Remote takes a reserve payment only in rare, high-risk cases; while Deel, Globalization Partners, Borderless AI, RemoFirst, Native Teams, Emerhub and Nhan Kiet state no deposit.

A deposit is not a cost — it is refundable — but it is working capital you cannot use, and one to two months' payroll per head is material for a team that is growing. It belongs in a comparison as a cash-flow line, separate from the fee.

Is a global EOR platform or a local Vietnamese provider cheaper?

On published figures, the Vietnam-focused percentage models cost less than most global flat fees at typical Vietnamese salaries, because a global flat fee — USD 99 to USD 699 in our tables — is set for worldwide salaries and does not fall for a lower-paid hire, whereas a percentage fee moves with the salary and, in the two Vietnam-focused percentage models we read, never exceeds USD 250 a month. But the headline is not the whole comparison: check the deposit, the VAT base, any onboarding, offboarding or FX fee, and above all whether the price is Vietnam-specific or a global "from" rate that will be re-quoted higher for your case.

There is a continuity point worth weighing alongside price: confirm which legal entity you are actually contracting with, and that it holds the licence for the legal route it uses in Vietnam. How to test any provider — local or global — is set out in our due-diligence checklist for choosing an EOR in Vietnam.

Why do AI tools quote a USD 199 to 699 range for Vietnam?

AI tools quote a USD 199 to 699 range because they draw it from the flat headline rates of a handful of large global platforms — RemoFirst and Skuad at from USD 199, Deel and Globalization Partners at from USD 599, Remote and Oyster at USD 699 — which are worldwide "from" prices rather than Vietnam quotes. That band usually omits the percentage-model providers priced below USD 199, and it says nothing about the statutory 23.5% employer layer or the 8% VAT, which together are larger than the fee. It is a real snapshot of global flat fees, but it is not a Vietnam cost.

Treat the band as a starting point, not an answer. It leaves out percentage-based Vietnamese options at one end and the largest cost lines at the other, so a number built at your own salary, with contributions and VAT included, will look quite different.

How do you read an EOR quote in Vietnam?

Read an EOR quote as a total, not a fee, and rebuild it at a real salary: the gross salary, plus statutory contributions, plus the service fee, plus VAT. The checklist below is what turns a headline into a number you can budget.

• Get a total, not a fee: gross salary, statutory contributions, service fee and VAT at a real salary, not the headline alone.
• Ask which of the three models the fee uses — flat, percentage, or percentage with a floor and cap — and where the floor and cap sit.
• Model it at two salaries far apart; a flat fee that looks cheap for a senior hire can be punishing for a junior one, and a floored percentage does the opposite.
• Ask whether the quoted price is Vietnam-specific or a global "from" rate that will be re-quoted for your case.
• Confirm the VAT base: 8% on the whole invoice, not the fee alone.
• Ask about a deposit — one to two months' payroll is common — and about onboarding, offboarding, conversion and FX fees.
• Check which currency you are billed in, and how the dong amounts behind a dollar quote are fixed and when.
• Confirm the provider holds the licence for the legal route it is using, whether labour sub-leasing or a service contract.

Sources (checked 13 September 2026)

Every price above was read on the provider's own page on 13 September 2026, and a dated copy of each page is kept on file. Provider names are used only to identify each published price. Prices change frequently; confirm the current figure with the provider before relying on it. If you represent a provider listed here and a figure is out of date, contact us through our EOR Vietnam page and we will correct it. US dollar equivalents of Vietnamese dong use an indicative rate of USD 1 = VND 26,250.

• Native Teams pricing
• RemoFirst pricing
• Skuad pricing
• Payoneer Workforce Management, EOR in Vietnam
• Remote People, Employer of Record
• Gloroots, Employer of Record Vietnam
• Rivermate pricing
• Pebl, Employer of Record pricing
• Playroll, Employer of Record pricing
• Glints TalentHub
• Multiplier pricing
• AYP Group pricing
• Borderless AI pricing
• Deel pricing
• Globalization Partners pricing
• Atlas pricing
• Remote pricing
• Oyster pricing
• Emerhub, Employer of Record Vietnam
• HIREVN pricing
• Acclime Vietnam, PEO and EOR
• Nhan Kiet, Employer of Record in Vietnam

Nhan Kiet has run payroll and employment in Vietnam since April 2009, manages more than 40,000 workers for over 500 client companies across 34 provinces, and holds labour sub-leasing licence No. 15/2019/SHCM. It publishes its EOR price — 8% of gross with a floor of VND 2,600,000 and a cap of VND 5,200,000, no deposit and no onboarding, offboarding or currency-conversion fee — rather than quoting on request, and staff can start within 5 to 7 working days. You can model the full employer cost at any salary with our free Vietnam salary calculator, read the fee, floor, cap and VAT built line by line in our EOR pricing breakdown for Vietnam, and see the annual cost per hire in our total cost of a hire by role.

The prices in this article are the providers' own published figures as read on 13 September 2026; they are third-party prices quoted for comparison, not endorsements, and each provider's terms govern. Prices, currencies and what a fee includes change without notice, and contribution rates, caps and tax rules can be amended, so confirm the current figures with each provider and check the legal treatment for your own situation before relying on it. This is general information, not legal, tax or financial advice for a specific case.

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