Multi-Country Payroll Services
Multi-country payroll services from Eicra give an international company with staff in several countries one provider, one approval routine and one register, while each country’s payroll follows its own law. We run Bangladesh payroll directly and coordinate partner countries from the same desk, so your finance lead approves one file a month and queries one person. Where some of those staff are foreign nationals employed in Bangladesh, expat payroll in Bangladesh runs in the same register, with tax residency, the 80/20 remittance records and work permit dates handled per person. As a Dhaka-based company, we work inside your human resources (HR) and finance systems under a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), with a payroll lead and a payroll accountant per country group; your owner approves every country’s register before anything is paid.
One exit at each step. No long-term commitment at any of them. We start with the countries where you pay people: headcount per country, who employs them there, who runs payroll today, and where the pain is — late salaries, no single view, or nobody accountable. Each country is marked direct or partner, and the first consolidated calendar is drawn in writing.
You get a written verdict — multi-country payroll under one contact, Bangladesh payroll only, an employer of record where you have no entity, or a handover from your current provider. If one country is all you have, you stop here and keep the review.
30 minutes 01 Scope · free call
1 week 02 Diagnose · payroll review, credited to the first cycle
One cycle 03 Pilot · first consolidated cycle, priced per country
Per employee 04 Production · fixed monthly price per country
Monthly 05 Managed Ops · inside the per-employee price, cancel any month
What is included in multi-country payroll services?
Multi-country payroll services include six things for a company paying people in several countries, and our service covers all of them: a country map that says who employs whom, one consolidated register, statutory deductions per country, one approval and payment routine, partner coordination behind one desk, and a monthly report. Each card is one deliverable.
Country map: direct or partner
Before the first run, every country is written down with its model — Bangladesh run directly by us, each other country through a vetted in-country partner we coordinate — plus the legal employer, the payroll calendar and the statutory dates, signed by both sides.
One consolidated payroll register
Gross pay, deductions, employer costs and net pay for every employee, grouped by country and currency, in one file with one version number. It goes to your owner before payment, so any line can be queried first.
Statutory deductions per country
Each country’s own salary tax, social contributions and statutory withholdings calculated by the team or partner responsible for that country; in Bangladesh, salary tax deducted at source under the Income Tax Act and paid on its date.
One approval and payment routine
Your owner approves the consolidated register once. Payment is then released per country inside its statutory window, in Bangladesh within seven working days of the wage period, and nothing is paid before that approval is logged.
Partner coordination behind one desk
Partner countries receive only the fields their payroll needs, on your calendar, from our payroll lead. Their output is checked against your register before it reaches you, so you deal with one team and one quality standard.
Monthly report your finance team books
One report a month: salaries paid, deductions remitted, employer costs, exceptions and their resolution, per country and in total. Each line is tied to a register version and an approval, ready for your accountant and your auditor.
Not included: Holding or moving your funds · legal or tax advice · decisions a country’s law leaves to the employer · new countries, new entities or changes in a law, priced first as a change request.
How do a direct country and a partner country differ in your payroll?
Honest multi-country payroll says where the provider works directly and where it relies on a partner, because that changes who is accountable. In Bangladesh we calculate, deduct, pay and file ourselves; in partner countries a vetted local firm calculates and we own the calendar and your register. Where no entity exists, our employer of record service employs the team first.
Legal employer
Direct: your Bangladesh entity, or ours under an employer of record. Partner: your local entity or the partner’s, named per country in the map.
Calculation
Direct: our accountant computes gross-to-net under the Labour Act and the Income Tax Act. Partner: the local firm computes; our lead re-checks totals against your data.
Statutory dates
Direct: wages within seven working days of the wage period, final dues within thirty working days. Partner: that country’s dates, held in the one calendar you approved.
Who answers
Direct and partner alike: our payroll lead, by name, on the monthly call — never a ticket queue or a partner you have to find yourself.
What does the first multi-country payroll cycle contain, from country map to payment?
The first multi-country payroll cycle contains five logged steps, because “we do global payroll” tells you nothing. Every item in the log below traces to a country, a register version, an approver and a date; the example is a three-country team of twenty-six people whose parent had three spreadsheets and three invoices a month. Yellow marks where a person signs.
First-cycle log · three countries
The cycle at that step · its result
Country map signed
Every country is written down with its model before the first run.
| Map item | Sample team |
|---|---|
| Countries | 3 |
| Direct | 1 · Bangladesh, run by us |
| Partner | 2 · vetted in-country partners |
| Per country | Legal employer, calendar and statutory dates |
| Owner | Named |
3
Countries on the signed map1 direct, 2 partner · signed by both sides
Test calculations
A test calculation per country comes before its first run.
Last month’s data→Gross-to-net→Totals reconciled→Signed off by you
Direct · BangladeshOur accountant computes gross-to-net under the Labour Act and the Income Tax Act
Partner countriesThe local firm computes; our lead re-checks totals against your data
Later countriesEvery new country is mapped and tested before its first run.
Test calculations signed off by youone per country, before the first consolidated run
Register consolidated
One file with one version number, sent to your owner before payment.
Lines26Currencies3Per countryDeductions and employer costVersionOne version numberStatusSent to your owner
For every employee, grouped by country and currency
Gross payDeductionsEmployer costsNet pay
26
Lines on the consolidated register3 currencies · one version number
Owner sign-off
Nothing is paid before the approval is logged.
Register sent→Owner approves→Approval logged→Payment released
ApproverYour named ownerApprovesThe consolidated register, onceRecordedApproval, date and versionReleasedPayment, per country
Approval ruleNo salary, deduction or partner fee is released until your named owner has approved that cycle’s consolidated register.
Your owner approves the consolidated registerapproval logged with date and version · payment released
Paid and reported
Payment is released per country inside its statutory window.
| Country | Paid inside |
|---|---|
| Bangladesh · direct | Seven working days of the wage period |
| Partner countries · 2 | Each country’s own dates, held in the one calendar you approved |
Bangladesh deductionsremitted
First reportin your finance system
Each country paid inside its own statutory windowlogged against the calendar · first monthly report issued
Open a step, or a number below, to see the cycle at that stage
After the first cycle, every month runs the same way: register approved and paid, deductions remitted, partner outputs checked, the report issued.
Illustrative run. A person signs the yellow step; each step is logged against its country, register version, approver and date.
How is multi-country payroll set up, from scoping review to Managed Ops?
Multi-country payroll takes a one-week review plus one payroll cycle to set up, in five steps: a free 30-minute scoping call, the review, the first consolidated cycle, production, then monthly Managed Ops. It fails when each country is onboarded by a different person and the client is left to reconcile them. Every step ends with a file you keep.
01 30 min · free
Scope A call about the countries: headcount per country, who employs them, who runs payroll today, where salaries have been late or unexplained. If the country list is known, you leave with a review quote.
02 1 week · credited
Diagnose Current registers, year-to-date pay and filing status read per country; each country marked direct or partner; statutory dates and currencies listed; gaps against those dates flagged; the first consolidated cycle priced in writing per country.
03 One cycle · fixed price
Pilot The first consolidated run: a test calculation per country signed off by you, the register approved by your owner, each country paid inside its window, Bangladesh deductions remitted, and the first monthly report issued.
04 Per employee · after the first cycle
Production Every later hire added on day one, every new country mapped and tested before its first run, the register and report issued monthly, with the per-employee price per country fixed in the contract.
05 Monthly · cancel any month
Managed Ops The monthly cycle: register approved and paid, deductions remitted, partner outputs checked, the report issued, and the country map re-read when a law or a partner changes, with a lead who knows your countries.
Who runs your multi-country payroll, and with what?
You meet the team on day one: a payroll lead, an accountant per country group who computes or re-checks each register, and a reviewer who signs the file before your owner sees it.
Payroll lead Owns the country map, the calendar and every partner relationship
References Labour Act, Income Tax Act, partner-country rules
Communication Shared channel and a monthly review call
Delivery Inside your HR, payroll and finance systems, with nothing stored on our side
Quality assurance (QA) Second-person review of every register; versioned; approver named
Ownership Every register, payslip, filing and partner report in your name, exportable any day
Do you need multi-country payroll, one-country payroll, an employer of record, or a handover?
Multi-country payroll buyers arrive in four situations. Staff in several countries and no single view → multi-country payroll under one contact. Staff in one country only → Bangladesh payroll on its own. Staff but no entities anywhere → an employer of record first. A provider already in place → a handover with a gap list before anything moves. Five questions show which fits.
1. In how many countries do you pay people?
2. Where do you have your own entities?
3. Who runs payroll in those countries today?
4. What is the main problem?
5. When is the next wage period due?
Which one do you need? Answer five questions.
Multi-country payroll under one contact
Staff in several countries and no single view is the case this page exists for: every country mapped direct or partner, one consolidated register approved by your owner, each country paid inside its statutory window, and one person who answers for all of them on the monthly call.
A first estimate; the diagnostic confirms it.
How the verdict is decided
One country only → Bangladesh payroll
No entities anywhere → employer of record first
Another provider holds the registers → handover first
Otherwise → multi-country payroll under one contact
Why choose us for multi-country payroll?
A multi-country payroll provider is judged on whether every country’s salary landed on its date and whether one person could explain the register, not on the number of flags on its website. In Bangladesh, section 123 of the Bangladesh Labour Act fixes that date. Global platforms calculate and leave reconciliation to you; this page prices the person who reconciles.
Reviewed by Asma Sultana Minu, Local Corporate Counsel. The Bangladesh Labour Act 2006 and Income Tax Act 2023 references on this page were last checked on 6 October 2026.
Without one payroll contact
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- Three spreadsheets, three invoices and three people to chase every month
- A salary that lands late in one country because nobody owned its date
- Deductions nobody can explain when the auditor asks which law they follow
- A platform dashboard instead of a person who knows your countries
With EICRA
First-cycle report · three countries
Countries live3 of 3Employees on register26Gaps closed7Approvals recorded2VerdictFirst cycle acceptedAgreed gate✓ Passed
Illustrative example
- One country map, one register, one invoice, one person who answers
- Each country paid inside its own statutory window, logged against the calendar
- Deductions tied to the law and the register version your owner approved
- A named payroll lead and accountant on a monthly review call
Is it safe to outsource multi-country payroll to one provider?
Outsourcing multi-country payroll is safe when your owner approves every register and partners get only their country’s fields. The risk is not the provider’s location but who approves payments, who sees pay data and what a partner receives. As a Bangladesh-based company, our offshore team works inside your systems under NDA; no payment leaves unapproved. Reviewed By Eicra.com team
Which agreements are signed, and when?
NDA — mutual, signed before any register, salary figure, employee file or partner report is shared with anyone.
Data processing agreement (DPA) — processor terms that follow Article 28(3) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) wherever it applies, plus the Bangladesh Personal Data Protection Act 2026 for pay data we process; partners bound back to back.
Data transfers — the standard contractual clauses, or another transfer instrument your jurisdiction requires, signed before any pay data moves to us or a partner.
Access — only the payroll and finance modules named in the scope, with no bank credentials, no payment authority and no production systems of yours.
Certifications — listed only when held; none are claimed, and we are not a bank, a law firm or a tax adviser.
What controls, intellectual property (IP) and rework terms apply?
Your accounts Every register, payslip, filing and report lives in your HR and finance systems from the first day; nothing is stored on our side or the partner’s beyond that country’s run.
Document ownership Under the contract every record is yours: export it, hand it to an auditor or move it to another provider whenever you choose, one country at a time.
Boundary We run payroll; we do not hold or move your funds, give legal or tax advice, or decide questions a country’s law leaves to the employer — your entity and your counsel decide.
Approval No salary, deduction or partner fee is released until your named owner has approved that cycle’s consolidated register; approvals, dates and versions are recorded.
Rework Free within thirty days when a register line fails the agreed acceptance list; a new country, a new entity or a change in law is priced first as a change request.
What proof do you get before you pay for multi-country payroll?
Before you pay for multi-country payroll, check three things we put in writing: the wage deadline the Labour Act fixes for the country we run directly, one payroll cycle to a register your owner approves, and the rework terms. After the scoping review you get a fourth: your own written country map, hire us or not.
7 working daysSection 123 of the Bangladesh Labour Act states that wages “shall be paid before the expiry of the seventh working day following the last day of the wage period”. Every other country in your map carries its own date, and the consolidated calendar is drawn back from the earliest of them so one approval covers all.
One cycleTo a consolidated register approved by your owner and every country paid on its statutory date, after a one-week review. The first cycle includes a test calculation per country signed off by you, Bangladesh deductions remitted and the first monthly report in your finance system.
30 daysWithin thirty days, a register line that fails its agreed acceptance list is reworked free; added countries or entities and any change in a law are priced first as change requests. You may stop after any step: each ends in a written result, and you owe no setup fee if the first cycle misses its agreed register list.
Case studies: client results with figures are published here once clients allow us to name them. On the scoping call, ask for references from your industry.
What do buyers ask about multi-country payroll services?
How much do multi-country payroll services cost?
Multi-country payroll services are priced per employee per country, never per hour; the price cards at the top show each step. A one-week scoping review ends in a written country map, credited to the first cycle. The first consolidated cycle is priced per country; administration then runs per employee per month, each country on its own line, from US$18 per employee per country.
For comparison, the published rate for multi-country payroll is US$29 per employee per month at Deel, Remote, Oyster and Papaya Global, and from US$10 at Playroll, before local filing fees, FX markups and off-cycle charges. Our Bangladesh lines are run by our own team rather than a partner, which is why the direct-country price sits below that range.
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Which countries do you cover, and how?
We cover Bangladesh directly with our own payroll team, and other countries through in-country partners coordinated from the same desk. Your country map names each with its legal employer, calendar and statutory dates. For the Bangladesh leg, payroll and HR compliance in Bangladesh covers the Labour Act registers, tax at source and the filing evidence behind that calendar. The partner list is confirmed in writing with each quote, because coverage changes; we never quote a country without a partner contract.
How does an employer of record differ from global payroll?
An employer of record employs your staff on its own entity and runs their payroll; global payroll only pays staff your own entities already employ. If you hold an entity in every country, payroll alone is enough; where you hold none, an employer of record makes hiring possible. Many clients use both models across countries, inside one register.
Can we move payroll from our current provider to you?
Yes. Switching starts with a handover of employee records, year-to-date pay, tax and filing status from your current provider, country by country. In the one-week review we reconcile totals, list every gap in writing, and run the first consolidated cycle only after you approve that list and a test calculation. Employees keep their contracts unless the legal employer changes.
When are salaries due in Bangladesh, and who withholds tax?
Wages are due within seven working days of the wage period’s last day, and the employer withholds salary tax at source on each payment. Section 123 of the Bangladesh Labour Act sets the deadline, section 122 limits a wage period to one month, and section 86 of the Income Tax Act requires the deduction.
Start with a free 30-minute scoping call or a one-week payroll review.Prefer to talk first? Call +880 1917 746550.