Hire engineers, designers, marketers, and operators across India. Wisemonk's Employer of Record handles employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance, so you skip setting up an India entity.
Three ways to put someone on payroll in India. For your first 1 to 30 hires, an EOR removes the entity, payroll, and compliance overhead, so you focus on building the team.
| Contractors / staffing | Wisemonk EOR | Own entity (Pvt Ltd) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | 1–2 weeks | 2–3 weeks | 3–6 months |
| Setup cost | $0 | $0 | $5–15K + ongoing legal |
| Per-person cost | Hourly / monthly rate | Salary + flat fee | Salary + ~20% overhead |
| Compliance burden | Yours | Provider's | Yours |
| Ability to offer benefits | None / awkward | Full | Full |
| Ability to offer ESOPs | Risky | Yes, parent grants | Full |
| IP protection | Weakest | Strong | Strong |
| Best for | Project work, short-term | 1–30 headcount, fast start | 25+ headcount, long-term |
| Wind-down complexity | Low | Low — 30 days | High — 4–8 months |
Here's exactly where your responsibility ends and ours begins.
Fully compliant across all 28 Indian states, no contractor grey areas
A named HRBP for onboarding, queries, and ongoing needs
PF, TDS, professional tax and gratuity with audit-ready records
State-specific policies, legally compliant, ready from day one
Health, accident, life, and flexible allowances
Notice periods, final settlements, gratuity, experience letters, asset recovery
Laptops, monitors, sourced locally and delivered to their door
Clean migration of employees, compliance, and payroll to your own India entity
Each hub has its own depth, cost profile, and specialty. Here's where founders start.
Deepest engineering pool, especially senior. Highest salaries in India, and the most international company presence.
A strong second. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google all run major centers here.
Strong engineering culture with notably lower attrition than the metros.
Engineering is solid but not as deep. Strongest hub for B2B SaaS go-to-market.
Strong engineering with lower attrition than Bangalore.
Around 40% of Indian tech workers are open to working fully remote.
A 30-minute call to scope the role, target city, comp band, and start date. You leave with a hiring brief you can hand to a recruiter that afternoon.
Once you've picked the candidate, Wisemonk's India entity issues the employment contract on your behalf.
Statutory enrolments, bank setup, laptop delivery, and group insurance happen in parallel.
Hire the next 5, 10, or 30 on the same flat fee. When the math says your own India entity makes sense, we migrate every employee, payroll, and contract cleanly.
These are not aspirations. These are operational benchmarks we've maintained across 300+ companies and 2,000+ employees.
Founders, Leaders and HR heads of fast growing startups across US, Europe, SEA and Oceania trust our services to manage their India teams.
The Wisemonk team played a key role in helping us hire for specialized B2B SaaS marketing skills. We were able to build the team within four months, and hire experienced professionals from Tier 1/major B2B SaaS brands. This includes SEO, digital marketing, business development, product marketing, content marketing, and GTM roles. They are a great partner providing integrated services for EOR and recruitment/hiring and I’d recommend them to any B2B SaaS vendor.
We've been using WiseMonk to support our India team for the past six months, and the experience has been excellent. They've handled everything from payroll and statutory compliance to equipment procurement and benefits enrollment — all with a level of responsiveness and professionalism that makes managing a remote India team from Canada feel seamless. Nileena and the team are always quick to reply and proactive about flagging anything we need to know. We'd happily recommend WiseMonk to other companies looking to hire and manage talent in India.
Wisemonk is a key partner for EOM-Energy O&M Services, playing an essential role in supporting our operations. Their seamless payment solutions make transactions not only simple and fast but also reliable. The team’s responsiveness, professionalism, and proactive approach give us complete confidence in every interaction. We look forward to strengthening our collaboration, using Wisemonk both for Employer of Record services and for recruitment support, to help us expand our team in India in the short and medium term.
As the CEO of The Humble Bucks LLC, I had a great experience working with Wisemonk.io. They made our hiring process in India smooth, efficient, and cost-effective. We were assigned a dedicated recruiter who helped us find and hire three EOR employees at a very competitive price. Beyond hiring, Wisemonk’s support team was extremely helpful in managing important operational logistics. They assisted us with coordinating meeting-related needs, including flight tickets, employee laptops, and other practical requirements, which saved us significant time and effort. Overall, Wisemonk has been a reliable partner for The Humble Bucks LLC. Their combination of recruiting support, EOR services, and hands-on operational assistance made the entire experience seamless. I would recommend Wisemonk to any company looking to hire and manage employees in India with confidence.
Process was professional & very smooth. We've worked with Wisemonk to source developers in India and it's worked incredibly well for us. We are very pleased with the talent of the developers and the Wisemonk process was professional and very smooth. We highly recommend using Wisemonk for talent sourcing!
We came across Wisemonk and met with the CEO and staff to explain our situation, and were very impressed with their customer-focused approach to their business. Wisemonk onboarded all of my employees in one or two days. They paid my employees' salaries on the day after my payment cleared. Needless to say, my employees and I were very satisfied with their service then and remain so over a year later. We are an American company, so I was very happy to see that they have a US bank account where I can make ACH payments to minimize bank charges. All salary payments are timely. They worked directly with my employees to enroll them in the health care program and explain any coverage-related issues. The best part is that we get to work with a dedicated person assigned to our company. I would highly recommend Wisemonk and think of them as our Indian HR department.
I'm very Happy that I discovered Wisemonk. They have been a pure pleasure to work with, and their attention to detail is impressive. They helped us understand their pricing model, find top-qualified individuals, interview them, and then onboard them. I gave them criteria for the type of people we sought, and they delivered. The individuals they were able to find have been some of the best engineers I have ever worked with. I recommend Wisemonk to anyone who is in need of staffing assistance.
I highly recommend them. Wisemonk helped us tap into the vibrant and top-notch Indian talent market and hire our first couple of founding engineers in record time. We've been able to accelerate our roadmap and deliver terrific value to our customers thanks to Wisemonk's efforts. They are easy to work with and very transparent about the process. I highly recommend them to any company looking for talent located in India.
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