Open EOR Dataset (2026): Provider Pricing + Global Statutory Employer Cost

Two openly licensed (CC BY 4.0) datasets from BestEOR.co for cross-border hiring research. This is a dated snapshot of the live catalog, with per-record citations and confidence flags. Provider pricing and terms: 94 employer-of-record and global-payroll providers; 56 publish a starting monthly price, 1 publishes plan prices (a flat fee or a percentage of employer cost) and the other 37 are quote-only (null, never zero). Median published fee: USD 349 per employee per month. Country employment: 139 countries with employer contribution details, minimum wage, annual leave, 15 additional employment terms and macro context. Null is not zero. Changes since the 2026-10-31 version: 6 providers added and 1 restated; no country record changed. No column was added or removed. Providers added: Agility EOR, Emerald Technology, Leap29, Revolut GlobalHire, Thera, Worksome, each with its published fee or quote-only status, coverage, deposit and fee terms and visa terms cited to its own pages. CWS Israel: its price is now its two published plans (USD 599 per employee per month flat, or 9.5% of the total employer cost), recorded as plan-priced rather than as a starting price. Counts: README.md and DATA_DICTIONARY.md update the fetch date and the provider counts. The four data files are copied from the live public exports and validated for matching row counts, unique identifiers, citations, allowed status values, numeric types and CSV/JSON agreement. manifest.json records the fetch time and SHA-256 checksums of the data files, and SHA256SUMS.txt lists the SHA-256 checksum of every other file. For current data, use the live downloads. Attribution: BestEOR.co, Open EOR Dataset, CC BY 4.0.