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: 88 employer-of-record and global-payroll providers; 53 publish a starting monthly price, the other 35 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 2026-10-30 version: 3 providers added and 1 restated; 8 of the 139 country records changed. No column was added or removed. Providers added: CWS Israel, Niural, Rise, each with its published fee, coverage, deposit and fee terms and visa terms cited to its own pages. Talent Grid Africa's model and price source were restated. Headline employer cost: 4 rates now include the pension contribution the employer must pay by law, which the earlier rate left out (Iceland 6.35% to 17.85%; Ireland 11.4% to 12.9%; Israel 6.05% to 18.55%; Norway 14.1% to 16.1%); the pension is cited as its own component (Israel's pension and severance deposits under the extension order, Norway's mandatory occupational pension, Iceland's pension fund contribution, Ireland's auto-enrolment from January 2026); 8 cost descriptions restated with it. Employment terms: 14 citations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Panama and Sri Lanka now point to the law or the labour authority; 3 values restated where the law states a condition the old value left out. 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.