Hire Employees in India from Ireland

Set up an Indian company from Dublin, or skip straight to hiring.

What incorporating in India really involves versus employing through us this week.

An Indian subsidiary of your own

Hiring through Versatile

First day of work

Waits on a registration chain that runs about six months.

Arrives within five business days on our payroll.

Filing responsibility

Your own employer codes and a return due every single month.

Filed by our Bengaluru team, with the receipts sent to you.

Getting money to India

Local banking, FX handling and remittance certificates.

One EUR invoice monthly, converted at the reference rate with no spread.

Cost of a slip

Arrears grow at 12% yearly interest with damages up to 25%.

Deadline risk sits with our registration, not your company.

Monthly spend

Advisory retainers and payroll tooling before salaries start.

$149 per employee, dropping to $129 past twenty people.

Changing your mind

Closing an Indian company is a formal process over months.

Written notice wraps it up. No exit fee, ever.

An Indian subsidiary of your own

First day of work Waits on a registration chain that runs about six months.

Filing responsibility Your own employer codes and a return due every single month.

Getting money to India Local banking, FX handling and remittance certificates.

Cost of a slip Arrears grow at 12% yearly interest with damages up to 25%.

Monthly spend Advisory retainers and payroll tooling before salaries start.

Changing your mind Closing an Indian company is a formal process over months.

Hiring through Versatile

First day of work Arrives within five business days on our payroll.

Filing responsibility Filed by our Bengaluru team, with the receipts sent to you.

Getting money to India One EUR invoice monthly, converted at the reference rate with no spread.

Cost of a slip Deadline risk sits with our registration, not your company.

Monthly spend $149 per employee, dropping to $129 past twenty people.

Changing your mind Written notice wraps it up. No exit fee, ever.

Month 1

Director credentials sorted, company name locked in

Month 2

Incorporation paperwork sits with the MCA

Month 3

Tax numbers issued: PAN, TAN, GSTIN

Month 4

Employer registrations for PF and ESIC

Month 5

Bank account operational, payroll built

Month 6

You can finally make your first hire

Revenue deadlines feel strict until you meet the EPFO.

Indian payroll compliance runs on fixed monthly dates, TDS by the 7th, provident fund by the 15th, and anything late compounds at 12% annual interest with damages that climb to 25% of the shortfall.

When employment sits on our registration, those dates are our team's problem in our time zone, and the deposit receipts land in your inbox as proof.

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What one late challan turns into Interest and damages, day by day

₹6,200 Day 1

₹41,500 Day 30

₹1,84,000 Day 90

₹3,12,000 Day 180

Worked example for one missed deposit on a small team. Larger payrolls and longer delays push it higher.

Who gets the demand letter

A company you set up in India You

Employment on our entity Versatile

Bigger, permanent India plans can justify incorporation. The calculator shows an Irish team its own crossover point. Feed your hiring plan into the EOR versus entity calculator and let it referee the decision.

Your team, your calls. Our entity, our filings.

You manage the people and the work through the shared window while employment, payroll and the whole Indian statutory calendar run under our Bengaluru registration, with monthly evidence.

You run

Priorities, sprints and shipped work
Standups in the Dublin morning window
Who gets hired, promoted and paid what

We handle

Employment contracts from our entity
Salaries paid on the same date monthly
PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS, receipted
Leave tracking, exits and settlements

You run

Lead the roadmap from Ireland
Run the morning ceremonies
Own pay and performance
Keep full say over the team

We handle

Sign compliant Indian contracts
Deliver payroll on schedule
File and evidence every return
Sort insurance enrolment
Keep the leave ledger
Handle notice periods and exits

When something happens in India, it is ours.

The PF office asks a question We take it

A payslip looks off We fix it

Someone hands in notice We process it

A named compliance manager owns your account. Not a queue, not a chatbot, one person who already knows your headcount and your last filing.

Account managerMedian first reply 4 to 6 hours

Recruitment coordinatorBrief to shortlist 9 days

Finance associateFilings on time 8 / 8

Mornings that sync without anyone suffering.

A 9am Dublin standup is mid-afternoon in Bengaluru, and the overlap runs until the Irish early afternoon. Neither side takes calls in the dark.

Euro billing with nothing hidden in the rate.

One EUR invoice covering salaries, statutory costs and our fee as separate lines, converted at the RBI reference rate with zero spread.

A talent market that scales past Ireland's.

Dublin's hiring pool is tight and expensive; Bengaluru's is deep across backend, data, support and finance roles, with shortlists in nine days.

Built to hand over later.

If you incorporate in India eventually, your people transfer across with tenure, UAN and gratuity accrual undamaged.

Mornings that sync without anyone suffering.

A 9am Dublin standup is mid-afternoon in Bengaluru, and the overlap runs until the Irish early afternoon. Neither side takes calls in the dark.

Better overlap than most of the US enjoys.

Euro billing with nothing hidden in the rate.

One EUR invoice covering salaries, statutory costs and our fee as separate lines, converted at the RBI reference rate with zero spread.

The rate on the invoice is the market rate.

A talent market that scales past Ireland's.

Dublin's hiring pool is tight and expensive; Bengaluru's is deep across backend, data, support and finance roles, with shortlists in nine days.

Scale without the Dublin salary spiral.

Moving someone across

Convert Irish-engaged contractors into employees.

Indian contractors currently invoicing your Irish company can be brought onto compliant employment with us in a single payroll cycle, keeping their start dates and PF records whole.

Service history Protected

Gratuity accrual Protected

UAN Same account

Missed salaries Zero

Our largest conversion covered 200 people inside one cycle.

Supporting evidence

Look up the employer before you commit.

Hires join Foo Falcon Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, on the companies register since 2022.

Incorporation
GST
EPFO code
ESIC
Shops and Establishments
PAN and TAN
Udyam MSME

What we verify

Incorporation Ministry of Corporate Affairs
GST Goods and Services Tax
EPFO code Employees Provident Fund Organisation
ESIC Ministry of Labour and Employment
Shops and Establishments Government of Karnataka
PAN and TAN Income Tax Department
Udyam MSME Government of India

The incorporation papers arrive as PDFs the day you ask, with no drip emails after.

200

people moved onto our payroll in our single biggest migration cycle

33

on-time invoices in an unbroken run for one long-standing client

5 days

from a countersigned offer to a paid, working employee

4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing teams in India through us.

4.8 / 5 on G2, from companies employing through us.

Straight from the people who hired through us.

Leaders running India teams on our entity, in their own recorded words.

Bharath Rasoi KS Rajeshwari Founder, Bharath Rasoi

Open Theatre Anand Raj Founder, Open Theatre

Sensibull
“They moved fast and took the whole compliance side off my plate. For a founder making an early India hire, that is exactly what you want.”
Abid Hassan Founder and CEO, Sensibull

Via G2

Moonshot

“Every option was either 'set up your own entity' or a platform that quotes a great price then hits you with add-ons. Versatile was the one that actually made it simple. First payroll ran on time. No scramble.”

Angad S. Co-Founder, Moonshot

Via G2

Digital Marketing Agency

“Contracts, PF, ESI, TDS and payroll all in one place. Invoicing in USD meant zero exchange rate surprises. The compliance rigour is genuinely reassuring.”

Vedant T. Founder, Digital Marketing Agency

Via G2

Design Studio

“Setting up in a new country can get messy fast, but their India EOR made onboarding feel easy. The team is responsive, clear, and great to work with.”

Setu C. Studio Owner, Design Studio

Via G2

US Startup

“We used Versatile to hire our first employee in India after months of putting it off because the compliance side seemed like a mess. They walked us through it and now we don't think about it.”

Verified US Founder First-time Founder, US Startup

Via G2

Mid-Market Tech Co.

“Versatile consistently delivered work that was both strategically sharp and execution-ready. Their turnaround times are impressive, and they think about problems the way an in-house team would.”

Shivani K. Senior Manager, Tech TA

Via G2

Growth-stage Startup

“Their team was highly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. They made a complex process feel simple.”

Mukul S. Core Team, Growth-stage Startup

Case studies.

Largest food delivery app in India, decacorn View case study

The world's largest professional network, part of Microsoft View case study

Legacy US software company, publishing platforms View case study

Flat monthly pricing per hire, invoiced in EUR.

One flat fee per India employee covers employment, payroll and filings. Recruitment sits apart as a success fee you only pay when we source.

EOR employment

India employees, employed by us

$149 /employee/mo

Falls to $129 per seat for the whole team past twenty employees. EUR invoicing at the reference rate, cancel with notice.

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Compliant contract on our Indian entity
Monthly payroll and itemised payslips
Statutory returns filed with receipts
Working within five business days
A named compliance contact for you
A dedicated payroll associate
Group health insurance sorted
Entity transfer help if you incorporate

Compliant contract on our Indian entity
Monthly payroll and itemised payslips
Statutory returns filed with receipts
Working within five business days

Four more inclusions

A named compliance contact for you
A dedicated payroll associate
Group health insurance sorted
Entity transfer help if you incorporate

Growing a proper Bengaluru team from Dublin? Sales will map it out.

Recruitment

Shortlists we build for you

12% of annual CTC

Junior and mid roles, billed at day 90. Senior roles at 15%; leadership priced per mandate. Your candidates are free.

Brief a role

A vetted shortlist in nine days
Pay benchmarks for every role
Interviews slotted to Irish hours
Nothing billed before day ninety
Senior searches at 15%
Leadership priced individually
Referred candidates cost nothing
Placed on our entity or on yours

A vetted shortlist in nine days
Pay benchmarks for every role
Interviews slotted to Irish hours
Nothing billed before day ninety

Four further terms

Senior searches at 15%
Leadership priced individually
Referred candidates cost nothing
Placed on our entity or on yours

A few roles at once? Sales will stage them.

Once you pass twenty

~~$149~~ $129 /employee/mo

Hire number twenty-one triggers the lower rate for everyone at once.

What the fee buys each month

An employment contract under Indian law
The monthly pay run with payslips
PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS paid in
Gratuity accruing from day one
Health cover through our partner
One EUR invoice at the reference rate
Background checks and week-one onboarding
Clean offboarding with a settlement

Team rate at twenty-one

~~$149~~ $129 /employee/mo

All seats drop to $129 in the same invoice. Nothing to renegotiate, no tie-in.

What each fee buys monthly

An employment contract under Indian law
The monthly pay run with payslips
PF, ESIC, professional tax and TDS paid in
Gratuity accruing from day one
Health cover through our partner
One EUR invoice at the reference rate
Background checks and week-one onboarding
Clean offboarding with a settlement

If we recruit, 12% of annual CTC is billed at day ninety for junior and mid roles. Salaries and employer costs pass through at actuals, hardware at cost. Run the entity comparison in the EOR versus entity calculator before choosing.

Still weighing it up? Then read this.

Sep 2026 • 16 min read

01 Why Irish Companies Hire Engineers in India Instead of Bidding Against Google for Dublin's Every Irish scale-up competes for engineers against the Dublin offices of US multinationals that can outbid them on salary, stock and brand.

Every Irish scale-up competes for engineers against the Dublin offices of US multinationals that can outbid them on salary, stock and brand. That is not a fight you win by paying 10% more. It is a fight you sidestep by hiring in a market where the depth runs the other way.

📇 What Bengaluru changes about the search

Instead of three plausible candidates and a bidding war, a well-run Bengaluru search produces a shortlist in about nine days, drawn from a talent pool larger than Ireland's entire tech workforce. You interview on skill, not on who happens to be between jobs in one small city.

⏰ The overlap is better than you think

Bengaluru runs four and a half to five and a half hours ahead of Ireland, so your 9am is their mid-afternoon. The entire Irish morning is shared working time: standups, reviews, pairing, all live. By your lunchtime they are wrapping up, and the work they finished lands in your afternoon.

💰 And the economics still hold

A senior Bengaluru engineer typically costs a fraction of the fully loaded Dublin equivalent, even after you add Indian employer contributions and an EOR fee. The saving is not the headline reason to do this. The depth of the market is. The saving is what makes the board say yes.

02 The Dublin to Bengaluru Workday: Shared Mornings, Quiet Handoffs The Irish morning maps onto Bengaluru's afternoon so cleanly that most teams change almost nothing.

The Irish morning maps onto Bengaluru's afternoon so cleanly that most teams change almost nothing. Your 9am standup is their mid-afternoon check-in. Your 11am review is their late-day wrap. The ceremonies you already run simply gain attendees.

⏰ How to use each half of the day

Treat the Irish morning as the live half: decisions, demos, anything that needs conversation. Treat the Irish afternoon as the written half: briefs, specs and review comments that the Bengaluru team picks up when they start the next day, hours before you do. Done well, questions you write at 4pm are answered before your first coffee.

⚠️ The thing that actually breaks the rhythm

It is never the time zone. It is payroll leakage: an engineer distracted for a week because a provident fund credit went missing or a tax deduction certificate never arrived. Indian statutory deadlines are unforgiving, with PF and ESIC due on the 15th and TDS on the 7th, and a missed PF deposit accrues 12% annual interest plus damages that can reach 25%.

🧾 Keep the filings on Indian desks

Employing through an EOR puts those deadlines on a payroll team that lives in that calendar, while your Irish finance function sees one euro-denominated summary a month. The rhythm stays a collaboration rhythm, never a compliance one.

03 Budgeting an India Hire in Euros: The Four Numbers That Matter Four numbers decide whether your India budget is honest.

Four numbers decide whether your India budget is honest. Miss any one of them and the finance review in month three gets uncomfortable. Here they are, in the order they hit the invoice.

🧾 Line one: CTC, the whole offer in one figure

Indian compensation is quoted as cost-to-company: gross salary plus employer contributions rolled into a single annual number. Always negotiate and benchmark on full CTC with the components itemised, because a candidate's stated CTC and their in-hand pay can differ by 30% or more.

💰 Line two: the loadings on top of gross

Employer-side statutory costs stack roughly like this: provident fund near 12% of eligible wages, ESI at 3.25% where salaries qualify, and gratuity accruing at 4.81%. Budget them explicitly rather than discovering them inside the first invoice.

💸 Lines three and four: the fee and the FX

A flat EOR fee of $149 per employee per month, easing to $129 once you cross 20 people, with the first month free and nothing charged for setup or exit. Then the quiet line: currency conversion. Insist on the RBI reference rate with no spread, because a 2% FX markup on a whole payroll dwarfs any platform fee.

⭐ The verdict

Euro budgeting for India is four lines, not forty. CTC, loadings, a flat fee and honest FX. If a provider cannot show you all four on one page, that is your answer about the provider.

What Irish companies ask us before hiring in India.

Eight answers covering overlap hours, euro billing, liability and when to incorporate instead.

Can an Irish company hire in India without setting up locally?

Yes. As an employer of record, Versatile hires your chosen candidates onto its Bengaluru registration and assigns their work to you under a service agreement. The employment, payroll and filings are ours to run; the team and its output are entirely yours to manage.

What does the Ireland-India time difference look like in practice?

Bengaluru is four and a half to five and a half hours ahead of Dublin depending on the season. An Irish 9am meets the Indian mid-afternoon, giving three to four shared hours every morning for standups and reviews, with the Irish afternoon left for heads-down work on both sides.

How are we billed from Ireland?

With a single monthly EUR invoice listing salaries at actuals, Indian employer costs at actuals and our flat fee. The euro conversion uses the RBI reference rate with no spread added, and every piece of India-side remittance paperwork is handled by us.

What is the all-in monthly cost?

$149 per employee flat, stepping to $129 across the team beyond twenty heads. Above gross salary, Indian employer costs add around 12% of eligible wages for provident fund, 3.25% for ESI under the wage ceiling and 4.81% accruing as gratuity, all passed through at cost.

How quickly can someone start?

Five business days from signed paperwork: KYC and banking on day one, UAN and ESI registration on day two, laptop on day three, induction on day four and payroll live on day five.

Who is on the hook for Indian filings?

We are. TDS by the 7th and provident fund by the 15th are due under our employer codes each month, so interest, damages and official letters attach to our registration. You receive the receipts as ongoing proof.

Can you source candidates as well as employ them?

Yes. A screened shortlist arrives within nine days of a brief, and the fee, 12% of annual CTC for junior and mid roles, is invoiced only after the hire completes ninety days. Senior searches run at 15% and your own candidates carry no fee.

When should an Irish company set up its own Indian entity?

Once India is a permanent pillar with a team past roughly twenty to thirty people, or when local invoicing matters. Incorporation takes about six months end to end; the usual route is EOR first, then a transfer of the team to your entity with tenure and PF intact.

Longer reading: India EOR, the full picture · Hiring in India, entity-free · Where EOR gives way to entity · Check compliance for your country

Tell us where you are on the decision.

A role you want to hire, a team you want moved, or just the two routes to compare. A named person replies in 4 to 6 hours.

What the first call covers

30 minutes

A cost comparison for your headcount, on your numbers, both routes.

A written cost breakdown
Entity documents before the call
PF, ESI, TDS, termination law
No follow-up sequence

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