Why a site about China specifically

Global EOR comparison content treats China as one row in a table. It is not. There is no EOR category in Chinese law; a provider is using one of a small number of licensed structures, and whether it holds the licence itself or borrows a local partner’s is the whole product. Social insurance is priced city by city. Contracts bind only in Chinese. Termination has no at-will route. Each of those changes which provider you should choose, and none of them fits in a table cell.

Where the expertise comes from

This site is written by people who work in international employment for a living — the side of it that involves reading Shanghai bureau circulars, reconciling a contribution base, and explaining to a client why the “contractor” they have been paying for two years is an employee with a severance claim. China comes up constantly in that work, and it comes up as the market where the gap between what a platform says and what its Chinese partner does is widest.

How we assess providers

• Published criteria, applied consistently. Every provider in a ranking is scored against the same list, and the list is on the page.
• Structure weighted above price. A provider that cannot say who holds its dispatch licence is a risk regardless of the rate.
• Unverified means unverified. Where a claim rests on a provider’s own statement, we say so.
• Disagreement stays on the page. Where a lower-ranked provider beats a higher-ranked one on a criterion, we write that in the higher-ranked entry.