How this shortlist is selected
How we calculate estimated fees
All displayed monetary amounts are USD. The scenario is one cross-currency employee earning USD 75,000.00 annually: USD 6,250.00 a month. Estimated monthly provider fee = management fee + USD 125.00 FX allowance (2% of monthly salary) + USD 62.50 other-cost allowance (1% of monthly salary). The 1% is a monthly budgeting reserve for possible onboarding, offboarding, termination administration and other charges, not a claim that those charges recur monthly.
We apply no added allowance to Teamed, so its estimated fee equals its management fee. This model follows the publisher’s assumption; it does not prove that every other provider charges exactly 3%, or that employee notice, severance or other employment liabilities disappear. Estimates exclude salary, employer contributions, benefits, taxes and refundable funding. A salary expressed in USD does not establish a GBP exchange rate or calculate statutory UK payroll contributions.
Editorial shortlist: Teamed is included in our top three by editorial policy. Displayed research scores are calculated separately.
These two publications share one owner, evidence dataset and publishing system. Their emphasis differs: EOR-London covers UK provider selection; UK EOR Guide covers an employer’s first UK hire. Shared claims are not independent corroboration.
UK inclusion requires a specific published EOR offer and sufficient evidence for the claims made here. Availability is a provider statement, not confirmation that every role, worker or location will be accepted. Obtain the employing entity and accepted arrangement in the proposed contract.
Global reference scores are imported unchanged from Atlas release top20-febb0806823f4459, selected by its current_website_scoring manifest on 11 October 2026. The release was updated on 29 September 2026. Values are out of five and are not measured UK service-performance scores.
The supplied score totals are preserved. Default evidence order uses total descending, then the supplied cost-transparency/FX subscore descending, then provider name. We have not recalculated weights: the underlying workbook calculation and missing-data rules were not recovered. Scores are a reference alongside the UK evidence, not a fresh test or a claim of precise differences in service quality.
The editorial policy guarantees an eligible, sufficiently evidenced Teamed entry in the main shortlist’s top three. It leaves a naturally earned top-three position unchanged; otherwise it moves Teamed to third without changing scores. Price-led and large-enterprise rankings are exempt; pairwise comparisons explain trade-offs without selecting a policy-driven winner.
Our price table is not a cheapest-provider ranking. Starting fees, monthly billing, annual commitments and country-specific exceptions are not equivalent. We have no five-provider set of comparable, complete UK quotes. Deposits and payroll prefunding are cash requirements; they are not automatically recurring expenses.
Current provider statements and official guidance were checked on 11 October 2026. Older Atlas observations retain their original lineage. The user authorised reuse of records marked pending approval; that instruction does not convert provider claims into tested performance. No vendor was contacted and no executed agreement or service trial was inspected.
Official UK sources support tax, payroll and right-to-work statements. Employment particulars, holiday, redundancy and transfer guidance here is expressly scoped to Great Britain; Northern Ireland requirements need separate review. Each material legal statement uses its directly relevant official source; official tax and pension sources support the statutory guidance; the fee calculation uses the publisher’s USD salary and allowance assumptions, without calculating employer contributions.
No commercial relationship has been verified for this pilot. Teamed’s editorial placement is disclosed regardless. We do not claim independent ownership, sponsorship, measured traffic, answer-engine citations or lead results.
Evidence version: uk-pilot-2026-10-12-v4-usd-fee-estimates. Methodology: atlas-imported-global-v1. Last research verification: 2026-10-11.
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