India EOR for Switzerland

Your India team on our payroll, without an AG in Bengaluru.

Wisemonk becomes the legal employer in India for your Swiss company. FDPIC-compliant data transfers under the revised FADP, Swiss-style employment terms, CHF-to-INR payroll without ever touching your Swiss payroll administration.

Talk to an EOR expert View pricing

Switzerland

India

FX BRIDGE 1 CHF ≈ ₹121.43

Time-zone overlap 5-6 hrs daily

ESTV Swiss federal tax administration
FDPIC Federal data protection commissioner
DTAA (CH-India) 1994 treaty

300+ Global companies running their India payroll with Wisemonk

73% Avg. saving vs. own entity (fully-loaded cost)

~7 days From signed contract to first INR payslip

100% DTAA-compliant payroll, every payslip

Trusted by 300+ Global Companies

Built for your jurisdiction

India EOR built for Switzerland balance sheets & data flows

Three things every Swiss CFO, DPO, and Head of People asks before putting Indian employees on our payroll.

Revised FADP and SCC-aligned

We operate under the revised Swiss FADP (in force since 2023) plus EU SCCs as a belt-and-braces measure. India is a third country with adequate safeguards via SCCs. Your data protection counsel gets the full pack.

Global-grade service levels

Same SLA you would expect from a Madrid-based provider: 24-hour response on payroll queries, 4-hour response on compliance flags, named CSM and named Indian payroll lead.

CHF in, INR payslip out

Invoice in Swiss francs from your existing AP. We handle the FX and the full INR payroll on the Indian side: PF, ESI, PT, TDS withheld and filed. Net pay lands in your team member's Indian bank account on the same day every month.

The honest comparison

Set up an Indian entity vs. Wisemonk EOR.

The honest comparison if you have a person to put on payroll today and you are choosing between standing up an Indian subsidiary or using an EOR. Numbers benchmarked from 24 months of Wisemonk onboardings.

	Set up your own Indian subsidiary	Wisemonk EOR
Time to first employee on payroll	5-7 months	7 days
Setup cost	$18,000 – $45,000	$0
Ongoing compliance & filings	Your CA team, monthly	Filed for you, included
PF, ESI, PT, TDS registrations	You apply, you maintain	Pre-registered, maintained
Termination & severance liability	Your legal exposure	Handled under Indian ID Act
Permanent establishment risk	Your legal exposure	None — annual letter provided

Run your numbers

See the exact savings for your Switzerland team, in your currency.

Plug in headcount, salaries, and timeline. Get a side-by-side cost model with our entity setup vs. Wisemonk EOR calculator.

Open the EOR vs. Entity calculator

Questions from Switzerland

What is an Employer of Record, and why would a Swiss company use one to employ talent in India?

An Employer of Record (EOR) is the legal employer of someone who works for your business. You identify, interview, and select the person; the EOR signs the Indian employment contract under their entity, runs INR payroll, withholds statutory deductions (PF, ESI, PT, TDS), and carries the local employment liabilities. For a Swiss AG or GmbH, this means you can put an Indian engineer, designer, or operator on a fully compliant payroll in 7 days — without setting up an Indian Pvt. Ltd., without an Indian bank account, and without exposing your Swiss entity to Indian permanent-establishment risk.

Will employing someone in India through an EOR create a permanent establishment for our Swiss entity?

No. Wisemonk India Pvt. Ltd. is the legal employer; your Swiss AG has no fixed place of business in India, no dependent agent, and no construction or installation project there. The four PE tests under article 5 of the 1994 Switzerland–India Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement are not met, so your Swiss corporate-tax position and your cantonal regime (Zug, Schwyz, or otherwise) are unaffected. We provide an annual confirmation letter you can keep with your statutory accounts for the ESTV file.

How does payroll, FX, and invoicing actually work?

You receive one CHF invoice from Wisemonk per pay cycle. Your AP processes it like any other vendor invoice. On our side, we convert to INR at mid-market rate (locked at invoice issue), run Indian payroll, withhold PF, ESI, PT, and TDS, and remit net pay to the employee's Indian bank account on the same day every month. The employee gets a fully compliant Indian payslip in INR; you book one line in your Swiss accounts in CHF. Your finance team never touches Indian payroll mechanics.

What happens to data protection when our Swiss employee accesses our systems from India?

We sign EU Standard Contractual Clauses (decision 2021/914) with you at onboarding, and the revised Swiss FADP (in force since September 2023) recognises the EU SCCs as a valid transfer mechanism for third-country transfers. India is treated as a third country, but the safeguards meet FADP and GDPR Article 46 requirements.+

Still have a question?

Specific to companies headquartered in Switzerland. For cross-border basics, see the main page.

Talk to an Expert

Indian employees on our payroll, billed from Switzerland.

Talk to an Expert View pricing