Found cheaper? We match it — see conditions. Incorporation and secretary transfer also carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.
You found someone. Don't let the entity make them wait.
No Malaysian entity. Legally employed within days. Team transfers when you incorporate.
14–16%
statutory load, fixed by law either way
The term is Employer of Record
Four, and only four
EOR
Legal employer
OCTIS is the employer on paper. Your people work for you, report to you.
Ours
What sits with us
Contracts, payroll, EPF/SOCSO/EIS, Employment Act 1955 compliance.
Yours
What stays with you
The work, the direction, the relationship. Nothing day-to-day changes.
Load
Statutory contributions
Roughly 14–16% on top of salary — the same whoever employs them.
+ when you incorporate, the team transfers with contracts, payroll history and leave balances intact
What a global platform takes first
Before your employee's first day, a typical global EOR platform takes a deposit from you worth this much of that person's full employment cost:
That's before the monthly fee, and before the exchange-rate spread on converting it back.
And it doesn't shrink
The statutory load is the same no matter who is named your employer.
EPF, SOCSO and EIS statutory contributions, plus Employment Act 1955 compliance — the ~14–16% rate is fixed by law, not set by whichever provider you choose.
The one question that decides this
Anyone can be the employer today. Almost nobody can also become your company secretary.
What a competent EOR provider does
A global EOR platform and OCTIS do the same core job of legally employing and paying your staff in Malaysia — the difference is how much cash each one asks you to hand over before your employee's first day:
What happens when you incorporate
If you later set up your own Malaysian company, OCTIS can handle the incorporation and company secretary work and then keep running the same payroll under your own entity, without moving your team:
Today
OCTIS is the legal employer. Your team already reports to you.
When you're ready
OCTIS incorporates your Sdn Bhd — Compliance.
Same transition
OCTIS becomes your company secretary — Compliance.
Payroll continues
Runs under your own entity — HR · Payroll. Same records, same people.
RM 0
Held as a deposit before anyone starts. Global platforms commonly hold one to one-and-a-half months' pay, per employee.
The largest single reversal on this page.
What actually reverses
Employer of Record here is month to month. Cancel any month and your data and figures leave with you. Which services the published 30-day money-back guarantee covers, and up to what point, is set out on the guarantee page.
What they do well
A global EOR platform can employ your Malaysian hire well — compliant contracts, statutory filings, an entity already in place.
What their shape can't reach
It isn't also your Malaysian company secretary, and it doesn't incorporate your Sdn Bhd. It can hand the team back to you; it can't put them inside your own entity.
Not something OCTIS does better — a service most EOR platforms don't offer at all.
One invoice, three lines
This adds together what one employee costs you each month — the salary you choose, the statutory contributions fixed by law, and the OCTIS fee — into one invoice:
Every EOR quote should show these three lines before you commit to any of them.
No deposit
RM 0 held before anyone starts
Global platforms commonly hold one to one-and-a-half months' full employment cost, per employee.
The reference range
USD 400–600/employee/month is common for Malaysia on global EOR platforms
Before their deposit and FX spread. OCTIS quotes a flat fee in ringgit — the exact figure is scoped per engagement.
Where the rate changes
Volume pricing turns on automatically from your 5th employee
Four employees don't get it; the fifth switches the whole roster.
Not covered
- The statutory contributions stay yours — EPF, SOCSO and EIS are paid to the agencies, not to us, whoever is named the legal employer
- Foreign nationals need an Employment Pass, subject to salary thresholds and immigration approval — say the thresholds exist, do not assume they are automatic
- Employment Pass application and renewal, expatriate relocation, equipment procurement and background screening are not priced yet
Does OCTIS becoming the legal employer change who my team reports to?
No. The work, the direction and the relationship stay with you. 
is the employer on paper — contracts, payroll, EPF, SOCSO, EIS and Employment Act 1955 compliance sit with us.
What happens to the team when I incorporate my own company?
They transfer across with contracts, payroll history and leave balances intact. can also incorporate your Sdn Bhd and become your company secretary, then keep running payroll under your own entity.
Can I hire a foreign national through Employer of Record?
Yes, through the Employment Pass route, subject to salary thresholds and immigration approval — that approval is not automatic.
Why is there no deposit?
Because the fee is the only cost. Global platforms commonly hold one to one-and-a-half months' full employment cost per employee before anyone starts, plus an exchange-rate spread converting it back. charges the monthly fee, in ringgit, and nothing before day one.
What does this actually cost?
The statutory contributions — roughly 14–16% on top of salary — are fixed by law and the same everywhere. The fee itself is scoped per engagement: send the role and salary you have in mind for a quote.
You found the person. The company structure shouldn't be why they start in March instead of next week.
Send us the role, the salary and the start date.