Methodology & Editorial Policy

Rankings are editorial and merit-only. When we rank tools or vendors — EOR platforms, job boards, career tools — the order reflects our assessment of the product against explicit criteria stated on the page (for EOR platforms: published price, country coverage, price transparency, and compliance model). No vendor can pay to be included, ranked higher, or featured.

Where a ranking is a judgement call, we say what we weighted and why, so you can re-weight it for your own situation. A "best for X" verdict is a recommendation for a specific use case, not a claim that one product beats all others for everyone.

Some outbound links are affiliate links: if you sign up with a vendor after clicking one, RoamJobs may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Pages that contain affiliate links carry a visible disclosure. Outbound links route through our /go/ redirector for click tracking; when a link is an active affiliate link it is marked rel="sponsored" automatically.

Affiliate revenue never affects rankings, inclusion, or what we recommend. We recommend best-in-class tools that have no affiliate program alongside ones that do, and we rank a cheaper or better non-affiliate option above a paying one whenever the merits say so. If a commission ever conflicts with an honest recommendation, the recommendation wins.

Every specific number in our content — a price, a fee, a statutory contribution rate — is sourced at the time of writing from the primary source: the vendor's own public pricing page, or an official government/agency reference. We record each claim, its source, and the date it was fetched in an internal claims ledger. If we can't source a precise number, we write the structural fact instead of guessing ("the platform publishes per-country employer-cost breakdowns" rather than an invented percentage).

Prices change. A figure is only as current as its verification date, which we show on the page. Where a vendor blocks automated verification, we say so and note when the figure was last confirmed. When our figure comes from CostBench (our sister software-pricing database), we attribute it and note its confidence level.

For employer statutory costs we publish a range, not a false-precision single number, because real employer burden varies by salary band, region, and worker classification. A vendor quote for your exact hire is always more authoritative than any calculator estimate — including ours.

We don't fabricate social proof (no invented user counts, no fake testimonials, no made-up review scores). We don't publish salary or cost figures without stating the methodology behind them. We don't present a sponsored placement as an editorial recommendation. And we don't let content go stale silently — visa, tax, and pricing information all carry a last-updated date, and anything material that we know has changed gets corrected or flagged.

Comparison and pricing pages are reviewed on a rolling basis and re-verified when a vendor changes its published pricing. Country tax and visa guidance is treated as time-sensitive: we date every guide and treat anything older than six months as due for review. If you find a number that's wrong or out of date, tell us and we'll fix it — accuracy is the entire point of the site.