What happens when you pay contractors without acompliant intermediary?
Misclassification risk
The IRS can reclassify contractors as employees, leaving you liable for back taxes, payroll tax penalties, and PE exposure. Possible cost per incident: $60,000.
Frozen bank transfers
Banks frequently block cross-border transfers to Africa, Southeast Asia, and the MENA region. Contractors go unpaid, and you lose days to compliance headaches.
No legal protection
Without a robust payment and compliance partner or local legal entity, you risk losing IP, enforceability of non-compete clauses, and compliance with local employment laws.
How Salary.io works
From risk to compliance in 3 steps:
1
Onboard
2
Pay
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3
Protect
Your brand. Your global team. Salary.io infrastructure.
Every touchpoint your contractors encounter reflects your brand—from the onboarding portal and benefits to payment notifications. They genuinely feel like members of your team, not users of a third-party platform.
Branded onboarding portal
Branded benefits
Branded payment notifications
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See what you're missing without a compliant intermediary
Contractor payouts and mgmt in 150+ countries
AML, KYC, PCI DSS all included
One-click payroll, transparent fees
Health, sick leave, vacation, pension
Localized IP and NDA clauses built in
We manage classification and documentation
Direct Payments(Wise / SWIFT)
No localized contracts. You're exposed.
You handle AML, KYC yourself
Manual FX, invoicing, bank freezes
None. Contractors get nothing extra.
No enforceable clauses in many countries
Misclassification = back taxes + penalties
Enterprise-grade compliance. Included in every plan.
Audit-ready, every payout.
Every transaction is signed, time-stamped and exportable as a regulator-ready ledger — no spreadsheet rebuild required.
KYC & KYB on every contractor
Identity, sanctions and PEP screening at onboarding, refreshed quarterly.
Localised contracts in 150 countries
Each agreement is reviewed by in-country counsel — never AI-generated boilerplate.
SSO, SCIM and audit logs
Enterprise auth and immutable activity history on every workspace, on every plan.
Simple, transparent pricing
Free compliance audit — see exactly where you're exposed and fix it in under a week.
Dedicated personal support
Transparent multi-currency payouts
AML, KYC, PCI DSS compliance included
Contractor payouts and management in 150+ countries
Employer-branded benefits (health, sick leave, vacation)
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