Employer of Record Services in Thailand
Hire employees in Thailand without setting up a Thai entity. JST manages local employment, payroll, work permits, tax, social security, and HR compliance.
What is an Employer of Record in Thailand?
An Employer of Record (EOR) is a third-party organization that takes on the legal responsibilities of employing staff on behalf of another company. JST HR Solutions acts as the legal employer for your workers in Thailand and Vietnam, handling all employment administration.
This allows international companies to hire local talent quickly and compliantly — without needing to establish a local legal entity, which can take months and significant investment.
What We Handle
- Employment contracts compliant with Thai labor law
- Monthly payroll processing and payslip generation
- Social security and provident fund contributions
- Personal income tax withholding and filing
- Annual leave, sick leave, and public holiday management
- Employee benefits administration
- Work permit and visa support for foreign employees
- HR compliance monitoring and regulatory updates
- Employee offboarding and termination procedures
Key Benefits
Pay and tax you can trace. JST runs payroll, Thai tax and social security on CrewForce, and you can trace each pay run back to the approved figures behind it.
See the client viewEmployer of Record Thailand: compliant hiring without a local entity
JST acts as the legal employer in Thailand so international companies can hire employees, assign expatriates, and run compliant payroll without waiting months to establish a Thai company.
- Thai employment contracts and onboarding documents aligned with local labour law
- Monthly payroll, payslips, withholding tax, and social security submissions
- Work permit and Non-Immigrant B visa coordination for foreign employees
- 90-day reporting, TM30 notifications, re-entry permits, and renewal tracking
- Employee benefits, leave administration, public holidays, and HR record keeping
- Personal income tax coordination for local and expatriate employees
- Termination, offboarding, final payroll, and statutory severance guidance
- Single local partner for payroll, recruitment, tax, work permits, and HR compliance
How JST EOR works
Work Permit & Visa Services
EOR clients with foreign employees benefit from our full immigration service. Our specialists manage every step — from initial visa application through ongoing 90-day reporting, renewals, and dependent visas.
- Non-Immigrant B (Business) visa applications
- Work permit applications, renewals, and cancellations
- Document preparation and verification
- Liaison with Department of Employment (DOE)
- BOI-promoted company visa and permit support
- Dependent visa applications for family members
- 90-day reporting and TM30 notifications
- Re-entry permit management
- Immigration compliance advisory
Frequently asked questions
An Employer of Record in Thailand is a local legal employer that hires workers on behalf of another company. JST employs the worker locally and manages payroll, tax, social security, HR administration, and compliance while the client directs day-to-day work.
Yes. An EOR lets you hire employees in Thailand before or instead of establishing a local entity. This is useful for market entry, project teams, regional roles, and urgent hires that need compliant employment quickly.
Yes. JST can coordinate Non-Immigrant B visas, work permits, renewals, 90-day reporting, TM30 notifications, re-entry permits, and dependent visa support for eligible foreign employees.
JST handles monthly payroll, payslips, withholding tax, social security contributions, required filings, and employee payroll support as the local employer of record.
EOR is usually best when you need to hire quickly, test the Thailand market, employ a small team, support a project assignment, or avoid the time and cost of entity setup until the business case is proven.
Choose a provider that is itself the legal employer in Thailand rather than a reseller that passes your staff to a local partner, that can sponsor visas and work permits, that runs payroll, tax and social security in-house, and that quotes a fixed monthly fee. JST Group employs staff in Thailand through its own registered company and handles all of these directly.
You choose the employee and agree the salary and role. The EOR signs a Thai employment contract with them, registers them for social security, applies for a visa and work permit if they are not Thai, and runs monthly payroll with tax withholding and filings. You direct the day-to-day work and pay the EOR one monthly invoice covering salary, statutory costs and the service fee.
Yes. Employer of record is commonly used by foreign companies hiring their first people in Thailand, because it avoids registering a Thai company, meeting its capital and staffing rules, and running local payroll yourself. Tell us the headcount, nationalities and start date and we will confirm what applies to you.
You pay the employee's salary and the statutory employer costs, such as social security, plus a monthly service fee per employee. Work permit and visa costs depend on the employee's nationality and role. We quote a fixed monthly fee once we know the headcount, salaries and whether work permits are needed.
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