Tell us about the person you want to hire in Brazil
Brazilian employment questions rarely have a stock answer. The convenção coletiva (sector collective agreement) for the role can add a meal voucher and a pay floor. A São Paulo hire on R$ 15.000,00 a month costs about R$ 271.600,00 a year once the 13º salário, the 1/3 de férias and employer charges are counted. A PJ contract carries its own risk while STF Tema 1389 is pending.
Specific answers, in plain English
- A cost estimate built on 2026 INSS, FGTS and IRRF rates
- Nothing to sign until you choose to go ahead
Two things people usually ask us first
Choose the closer match; each card leads back to the form.
Why employers outside Brazil hand us their CLT hires
No LTDA or CNPJ is needed on your side. We act as legal employer, putting our name to the CLT contract and the eSocial filings, while you keep recruiting and setting goals with the hire.
Built for small teams
Many clients start with one engineer or one sales lead in Brazil and add people later. Each hire is priced the same way, so a second or fifth employee does not change the terms agreed for the first.
Flat monthly fee at any salary
We charge from USD 560 a month per employee, roughly R$ 2.901,24 at the ECB rate of 24 September 2026, and that figure does not move. Salary, the employer share of INSS, RAT, terceiros and FGTS, the 13º salário and the 1/3 de férias are billed apart from the fee and itemised, so each figure can be checked against the payslip.
Brazil’s moving parts
Brazilian payroll runs through eSocial, which feeds DCTFWeb for social security contributions and FGTS Digital for the 8% FGTS deposit, each settled by day 20 of the next month. Salaries are due by the 5th business day. Around that sit the sector CCT, vale-transporte when the employee asks for it, the 90-day contrato de experiência and, after a dismissal without cause, aviso prévio plus a 40% FGTS fine.
Questions we get
Can a São Paulo hire work from home under teletrabalho rules? Which CCT covers a software developer? How much notice does someone with four years’ service get? (42 days.) What changes for paternity leave in 2027? We answer in writing, with the rule and the year.
A specialist who stays on
Your questions go to the specialist who set up the hire, so you do not re-explain the role, the salary history or the CCT each time a payroll or leave issue comes up.
Fitted to the employee
A foreign national needs a residence authorisation for work under Resolução Normativa CNIg nº 2/2017 before starting. Dependants change the IRRF due, and Lei 15.270/2025 removes IRRF in 2026 for anyone with taxable pay at or below R$ 5.000,00 monthly. We set each hire up around facts like these.
How a typical month runs with us
- A cost sheet for the hire before any contract is signed
- A written CLT contract in the employee’s language, agreed with you
- Monthly payroll, eSocial events and contribution payments
- One invoice in USD each month
Offer to first payday
You confirm the role, the salary in reais, the city and a target start date.
We check the CCT for the role and send a cost sheet with INSS, FGTS, 13º salário and 1/3 de férias built in.
We issue the CLT contract, usually opening with a 90-day contrato de experiência, and gather documents.
The admission is recorded in the digital CTPS through eSocial event S-2200 before the employee starts work.
Pay lands no later than the fifth business day after the month ends; INSS and FGTS follow by day 20.
An HR team you do not have to hire
Specific answers for your Brazilian team
Any generic HR platform will mention Brazil’s 13th salary. It will not tell you whether your developer’s CCT requires a meal voucher, or what a dismissal after three years would cost. Those answers depend on the role, the sector and the dates involved.
Your employee deals with our payroll team for payslips, leave and férias dates; you deal with one account contact for costs, changes and exits.
- Leave, sick notes and férias scheduling
- Salary changes, CCT raises and termination figures
Have a candidate in mind?
Your candidate can join on a CLT contract with us as legal employer, with no LTDA or CNPJ set up on your side.
Tell us the job title, pay and hoped-for start. You get back the monthly employer cost in reais, the USD fee, and what the CCT is likely to add.
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