The number exists. Employment Hero's own HeroForce help centre article puts its Employer of Record management fee at "a flat rate and per month, per employee ranging from $400USD - $600USD", on top of salary and employer statutory costs it puts at anywhere from 2 to 70 per cent. Its Philippines product page carries no price at all. Two pages, same company, and only one of them is easy to find.
That gap is the decision.
Why you are pricing a Philippines hire at all
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the Labour Account for the June quarter on 11 September. Job vacancies fell 2.6 per cent to 333,500 and the proportion of vacant jobs slipped to 2.0 per cent. Filled jobs rose by 110,700 to 16.3 million. Average labour income per employed person climbed 0.9 per cent to $26,084 for the quarter.
Read those four figures together and the picture is awkward. Hiring someone here got easier. Holding them got more expensive.
Which is why the thirty-person firm that spent last year failing to fill a role is now costing a Manila or Cebu hire instead, and reaching for the vendor already in its stack. Outstaffer sells against HeroForce and publishes its own Employer of Record fee where anyone can read it before a call, starting from $250 per month per employee, so weigh what follows accordingly.
What the HeroForce band actually costs you
Take the top of Employment Hero's published range. $600 USD per employee per month is $7,200 USD a year. Three Philippine hires puts $21,600 USD a year of management fee on your P&L before a single peso of salary moves.
Now take the bottom. $400 USD lands the same three heads at $14,400 USD.
The spread is $7,200 USD a year on three people, which is roughly what one of those people costs to employ. Where you land inside that band is settled in a sales call, not on a page, and you enter that call having already told them you are a customer.
I already use Employment Hero for payroll, should I use HeroForce or a specialist to hire in the Philippines?
Treat them as two decisions, because they are priced as two decisions. Your payroll subscription buys you nothing on the Employer of Record line, and the vendor with your payroll data has less reason to sharpen a quote, not more.
Does the bundle save real money anywhere?
It saves reconciliation, not fee. One system of record, one support queue, one integration you do not have to build. That is a genuine saving in your operations manager's week, and it is a different line of the P&L from the one the fee sits on.
The honest case for staying put
Consolidation is not a dumb instinct. Every vendor you add brings a contract, a security review, a login and another person to chase when a payslip is wrong. A finance team running four systems for eleven staff has a real problem. If your Philippines headcount tops out at one or two, the fee difference is small enough that the quiet life wins.
It stops working at scale. Fee is per head per month and compounds with every hire, while integration is a one-off. The decision also involves classification and local employment law, so get advice on your own situation before you commit. Anyone weighing this properly wants the difference between an EOR and a PEO straight first, and what moving contractors onto an employment model changes in the Philippines second.
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Make them quote you like a stranger
Ask HeroForce for a per-employee monthly fee for the Philippines, in writing, before you mention your payroll account. Then ask a specialist the same thing. If the two numbers arrive with different amounts of effort, you have learned something about which relationship is being priced.
An Employment Hero payroll plan is a good reason to ask HeroForce the question. It is not a reason to skip asking anyone else. If you want the comparison to start from a published number rather than a discovery call, sign up and price a role and hold the two side by side.
So what did your incumbent quote you, and did they quote it before or after you told them you were already a customer?
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