For founders hiring in the Philippines.

The easier way to hire a Filipino. Without setting up a company there.

We're the local team that becomes the legal employer for you. You manage the work. We handle the paperwork, the payroll, the laws. Browse real people ready to start.

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Your monthly EOR cost - 5 Filipino hires
List price comparison, before statutory contributions
The global platforms
$2,995 /mo
$599 × 5 employees. Help arrives by ticket.
People Helm
$995 /mo
Same 5 hires. Local HR team. Phone access.
Compliance, handled
What we file for every Filipino employee - every month
SSS contributionsFiled
PhilHealthFiled
Pag-IBIGFiled
BIR withholding taxFiled
13th month pay (Dec)Scheduled
DOLE complianceMonitored
What nobody tells you

Your "contractor" is probably already your employee. Philippine law just hasn't told you yet.

Nobody tells you this when you sign up.

If you set their hours, pick their tools, or assign their tasks, the law sees them as an employee. Not a contractor. The contract you signed doesn't change that.

From that moment, back taxes, benefits, and an extra month of pay start adding up.

Most founders find out from a letter in the mail.

Find a cleaner way
Three questions
  • Do you set their hours?
  • Do you assign their tasks?
  • Do you decide when they take leave?

If yes to any one of them, the three stars and one sun considers them your employee.

Not your contractor.

The three lines we hear on every first call

Three things every founder says. Usually in this order.

"I don't actually know who employs my team."

"I'm paying more in fees than half their salary."

"I just want to talk to someone who knows my team."

A Tuesday morning, 9:47am Manila time

Your Filipino team lead messages you. "Hi, quick question about my SSS this month."

You don't know the answer.

You log into the dashboard. Open a ticket. The auto-reply says someone will respond in 24 to 48 hours.

Three days later, a reply lands from a rep you've never spoken to. They link a help article. The article doesn't answer the question. Your team lead asked her cousin two days ago. He's a registered accountant. The answer arrived in twenty minutes.

That's one version of you.

The other version replies to her in eight minutes. "Just spoke to Fats - yes, the deduction is correct. She's sending the breakdown by end of day."

We know your team by name. Not a ticket queue.

What we handle for you

Every part of employing a Filipino in the Philippines.

We become the legal employer. We handle the paperwork, the payroll, and the laws. You manage the work. And if you're still hiring, there's a list of people we've already screened.

Government benefits

SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG. Paid every month. Filed correctly. The benefits actually exist for your team.

13th month pay

One extra month of salary, every December. Calculated and paid for you, by the 24th. No panic.

Taxes

Monthly withholding. Quarterly returns. Year-end paperwork. Your hire gets a clean tax record.

Payroll

Paid twice a month. On time. Holiday pay, overtime, night work. All calculated to the law.

Labor law

Contracts that hold up. Required postings. Ready for an inspection.

Letting someone go

Different rules for different reasons. We write the letter. Run the process. Calculate the final pay. You don't write a single document.

The cost, side by side

At five Filipino hires, that's $24,000 a year you don't have to spend.

This is the fee you pay your provider. Not the salary or benefits going to the worker. Those are the same no matter who you use.

Number of Filipino hires
Global platform
People Helm
You save / year
1 hire
$599
$249
$4,200
3 hires
$1,797
$697
$13,200
5 hires
$2,995
$995
$24,000
10 hires
$5,990
$1,790
$50,400
And the person you talk to actually lives in the Philippines. See available candidates

Based on the publicly listed $599/month global platform rate. People Helm pricing illustrative. Salaries and benefits passed through at cost on both sides.

How it works

14 days. Your Filipino team is properly employed.

A real handover from us to your team, run by people who'll still be on the call six months from now.

STEP 01

Pick or move

Browse the people we've already screened, or tell us about the team you already have. No signup. No call.

STEP 02

We become the employer

We write the contracts. Register the benefits. Set up the taxes. Your team sees a phone call and a new contract. Not a software signup.

STEP 03

Monthly fee

Payroll runs every month. Benefits paid on time. Questions answered the same day. One fixed fee. No surprise charges. Forever.

Is this for you

Built for founders who actually want to hire Filipinos properly.

Not for everyone. Read this before you click.

✓ This is for you if

  • ✓You have 1–25 Filipino team members and want them on a real contract
  • ✓You're about to hire your first Filipino and want to see real people before you commit
  • ✓You're on a global platform and the price stopped making sense
  • ✓You're paying "contractors" through Wise and quietly worried about it
  • ✓You want to grow your Philippine team without opening a company there
  • ✓You'd rather call a person than open a ticket

✗ This is not for you if

  • ✗You're hiring in 10+ countries and need a big global platform
  • ✗You want the cheapest possible option and don't care about service
  • ✗You're not planning to treat your Filipino team like real employees
  • ✗You'd rather use a dashboard than talk to a person
  • ✗Doing things by the book feels like a waste of money
FAQ

The questions every founder asks before they click.

You see a list. Filipino engineers, accountants, ops, customer service, VAs. Already screened. With salary ranges and time-zone fit. No signup. No call. If you like someone, you tell us. We become their employer. You start working with them.
The law looks at how you work with them, not what the contract says. If you set their hours or assign their tasks, they count as an employee. The bill builds up from day one. Not from when someone catches it. You're not avoiding the risk by calling them a contractor. You're saving it up.
If you're hiring across 10+ countries, global is the right call. For Philippines-only hiring, you're paying for 149 countries you'll never use, and a support team built for scale, not for your team. Local is usually 40–60% cheaper. And the person handling your team's paperwork actually lives in the same country they do.
We've run HR for Philippine SMEs for years before we started doing this for foreign founders. Real local clients. Real registration. Fatima's track record is public. We're not a startup that might pivot. You can check everything before you sign.
This is the part where local matters most. There are different rules for different reasons. We write the letter. Run the process. Calculate the final pay. Handle the government clearance. You don't write a single document. 50+ times, no successful legal challenge.
Yes, by a lot. The global rate is $599 per employee per month, often higher all-in. Ours is $199–$349. At 5 employees, that's a $24,000+ difference a year. Salaries and benefits pass through at cost on both sides. The savings come from the fee itself.
Honest answer: you already are. Most global platforms run their Philippine work through a local partner you've never met. With us, that partner is the provider. You know exactly who's processing your team's pay. Documented. Receipted. Same numbers we see. Every month.
14 days. Week 1: contracts, benefits, taxes set up. Week 2: signing and onboarding calls, then the first live payroll. Your team sees a phone call and a new contract. Not a software migration.
One: the Philippines. We're the local employer for foreign companies based anywhere. Today we work with founders from Australia, the US, the UK, Canada, and Singapore.

There's already someone you'd want to meet.

See who's available right now. No signup. No call. Real people we've already screened. Engineers, accountants, ops, customer service, VAs. Pick one. We employ them. You manage the work.

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