The talent you can't find at home is next door.
Mauritius has 1.3 million people. India has the engineers, designers and specialists you need. We help you hire them, legally, with no Indian entity.
You want to scale. Mauritius can't keep up.
A small island talent pool runs out fast. Every other route into India has a catch.
The local pool is tiny
One million working-age people, and everyone is chasing the same handful of senior engineers and specialists. You post a role and wait months, or you settle.
Talent runs drySet up an Indian entity?
Three to six months and real capital to register a company, open accounts and file with Indian authorities. For your first few hires? Not worth it.
Too slow, too costlyHire contractors directly?
Pay people in India with no contract under Indian law and you carry misclassification risk, weak IP protection and zero statutory cover. One dispute and it gets expensive.
Legal exposureUse a global EOR platform?
$600 or more per employee, every month. Support teams who have never filed a PF challan or run Indian payroll. You pay a premium for a generic playbook.
Overpriced, impersonalSaileor: EOR + Talent Sourcing. One partner.
We don't just employ your hires. We help you find them, and we sit in your time zone while we do it.
Talent Sourcing
- Tell us the role. We build the shortlist in 2 to 3 weeks
- Pre-vetted for skills and clear English communication
- You interview, we coordinate everything around it
Legal Employment
- Compliant contracts under Indian labour law
- PF, ESI, PT, TDS and gratuity all handled for you
- No Indian entity. No permanent establishment risk
Proximity & Tools
- A 1.5 hour gap means a live, shared working day
- Your team plugs into Jira, Asana, Linear, your stack
- Your branding on offer letters and onboarding
What your India hire actually costs.
No inflated savings claims. Just the real, all-in monthly number, so you can budget honestly.
Configure your hire
Your India team, all in
No entity to register. No 3 to 6 month setup. No capital locked up. PF, ESI, PT, TDS and gratuity included. One invoice in USD.
Talk to Us About This RoleFrom job description to productive hire in 4 steps.
Tell Us What You Need
Share the role, the skills and the seniority. We refine it with you.
Day 1We Source, You Interview
We build a pre-vetted pipeline. You pick. We coordinate.
Days 2 to 14We Handle Employment
Compliant contract, payroll, benefits, statutory filings. Done.
48 HoursYour Team Is Live
They work for you, in your time zone. We run the back office.
OngoingQuestions Mauritian founders actually ask.
Why hire in India when I'm already in Mauritius?
Depth. Mauritius has roughly one million working-age people, so for specialist roles like ML engineers, DevOps, data engineering or niche fintech work, the local pool is thin or empty. India has millions of engineers and specialists across every skill. You get talent you simply cannot find at home, working a near-identical day, without leaving your desk.
Is it actually cheaper than hiring in Mauritius?
Honestly, it depends on the role. For a standard developer, India and Mauritius are roughly comparable on salary. India is not a discount play for common roles. Where India wins is senior and niche talent: a senior ML engineer or DevOps specialist often costs less in India than what you would pay to attract or relocate that person to Mauritius, and frequently that person does not exist locally at all. For common roles you pay about the same and gain instant access plus zero entity setup.
What's the time zone overlap between Mauritius and India?
India is GMT+5:30 and Mauritius is GMT+4, so India is just 1.5 hours ahead. Neither country runs daylight saving, so that gap never changes. Your 9am standup in Port Louis is 10:30am in India. You share almost the entire working day. This is the tightest alignment of any major hiring market, far closer than Europe, the US or even much of the Gulf.
Do I need to set up an Indian entity?
No. That is the whole point. Saileor is the legal employer of record in India. Your team works for you day to day, but they sit on Saileor's Indian payroll. You skip the 3 to 6 month company registration, the capital, the local director requirements and the ongoing Indian compliance overhead.
How do I pay my India team?
You pay Saileor one invoice in USD. We handle the INR conversion, salary disbursement, tax withholding and statutory deposits inside India. No dealing with Indian banks, no managing FX, no chasing payroll. Your finance team sees one predictable monthly payment.
Does the India and Mauritius relationship help here?
It does. The two countries signed the CECPA trade agreement, in force since April 2021, India's first free trade pact with an African nation, and it covers trade in services and movement of people. Add deep cultural ties, with around two thirds of Mauritius tracing its roots to India, and English as the business language in both. The corridor is well worn. Many Mauritius based firms already run India operations. We just make the hiring part clean.
Can I offer equity or ESOPs to Indian employees?
Yes. We structure ESOPs that are tax-efficient for your team and clean for your cap table. Indian employees pay perquisite tax at exercise and capital gains at sale. We handle vesting schedules, cliff periods and exercise windows so your team gets real upside without messy paperwork.
What happens if I need to let someone go?
India works on notice periods, typically 30 days for junior roles and 60 to 90 days for senior ones, set in the contract upfront. We handle the notice period, full and final settlement, leave encashment, gratuity calculation, PF transfer paperwork and the relieving letter. You approve the exit. We execute it. No legal exposure for your business.
How quickly can someone start?
48 hours from a signed offer to compliant, payroll-ready employment. If you also want us to source the candidate, add 2 to 3 weeks for a vetted shortlist. Either way it beats running a local search for a role you may never fill.
What's included in the $199 per month fee?
Everything. The employment contract drafted to your specs. Monthly payroll with salary, bonuses, arrears and deductions. TDS filed with Indian authorities. PF and ESI deposited. Professional tax paid. Gratuity provisioned. Form 16 at year-end. An employee portal for payslips, leave, reimbursements and tax declarations. Query handling so your team does not ping you. Exit processing when needed. No setup fee, no hidden charges, cancel anytime. That is roughly MUR 9,000 a month at current rates.
Do you find candidates or just employ them?
Both. Most EOR providers only do the employment paperwork once you bring them a name. Saileor runs the full journey: job description refinement, candidate pipeline, screening, interview coordination, offer, onboarding and ongoing employment. One partner from the job description to the first paycheck.
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