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: 93 employer-of-record and global-payroll providers; 56 publish a starting monthly price, 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 2026-11-04 version: the provider files add what each provider's own pages say about minimum term, exit charges, minimum headcount, equity, equipment, salary and invoice currency, termination and moving staff to the client's own entity. New columns: 18 columns in eor-providers.csv and eor-providers.json (28 to 46): for each of the nine topics, a _terms column with the provider's own words (read 2026-11-04) and a _source_url column with the page that states it. Both are blank when the provider's public pages do not say; blank never means none. The data dictionary documents each column. One price update: Atlas HXM's published EOR price is now USD 499 per employee per month (was 599), a limited-time offer on its pricing page; its price_basis states that the regular platform fee remains USD 599. The median published fee stays USD 349. Otherwise unchanged: every other earlier provider column holds the same value on all 93 rows, and the country files are identical to the 2026-11-04 version. The provider rows are listed in a slightly different order. 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.