Stop bidding against Booking and Adyen for the same engineers.
Nearly half of Dutch vacancies are hard to fill. India has the engineers, designers and specialists you need. We help you hire them, legally, with no Indian entity.
You want to scale. The Dutch talent market won't let you.
Even after the market cooled, hiring senior tech talent in the Netherlands is slow, expensive and brutally competitive. Every other route into India has a catch.
Everyone is fishing the same pond
UWV found 45% of Dutch vacancies are still hard to fill, and tech is worse. You're chasing the same senior engineers as Booking, Adyen, Mollie and every funded scale-up, and paying €90–120k before the 22–28% employer costs on top.
Slow, costly searchesSet 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?
Deel and Remote are busy selling EOR into the Netherlands. They aren't built for a Dutch startup hiring out to India: $600 or more per employee, every month, from teams who have never filed a PF challan or run Indian payroll.
Overpriced, impersonalSaileor: EOR + Talent Sourcing. One partner.
We don't just employ your hires. We help you find them. An India specialist, not a generic global playbook.
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, full IP assignment
- PF, ESI, PT, TDS and gratuity all handled for you
- No Indian entity. No permanent establishment risk
Proximity & Tools
- A 3.5 to 4.5 hour gap: your whole morning is shared time
- 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, on your hours. We run the back office.
OngoingQuestions Dutch founders actually ask.
What is the fastest way to hire employees in India from the Netherlands?
Through an Employer of Record (EOR). Dutch companies can employ full-time staff in India without registering an Indian entity: the EOR is the legal employer in India and runs contracts, payroll and statutory compliance (PF, ESI, PT, TDS, gratuity) while the team works for you day to day. Saileor, an India-specialist EOR, does this for $199 per employee per month, with candidates payroll-ready within 48 hours of a signed offer, and can also source and vet the candidates for you.
Why hire in India instead of the EU or Eastern Europe?
Depth and price. The classic nearshore pools like Poland, Romania and Portugal have tightened, and senior rates there now approach Western European levels. India has millions of engineers across every specialism, from ML and DevOps to niche fintech work, at a genuine cost difference. And language is a non-issue: India's tech industry works in English, and the Netherlands is the world's best non-native English-speaking country (EF EPI 2025, #1 of 123 countries, for the seventh year running).
Is it actually cheaper than hiring in the Netherlands?
For most tech roles, yes, and the gap is real. A senior engineer in Amsterdam typically costs €90,000 to €120,000 in salary, plus roughly 22 to 28% in employer contributions, holiday allowance and pension: call it €115,000 to €150,000 all-in. A comparable senior hire in India, including our EOR fee, usually lands at a third to a half of that. For junior roles the difference narrows but stays meaningful. Run your own numbers in the calculator above; it shows the honest figure, not a marketing one.
What's the time zone overlap between the Netherlands and India?
India is GMT+5:30 and never changes clocks. That puts it 4.5 hours ahead of Amsterdam in winter and 3.5 hours in summer. Your 9:00 standup is 13:30 (winter) or 12:30 (summer) in India, comfortably inside their working day. You share five or more live working hours daily: your entire morning overlaps their afternoon. No US-style split shifts, no late-night calls on either side.
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 Netherlands relationship help here?
Very much. Bilateral merchandise trade reached $27.8 billion in FY 2024-25, making the Netherlands one of India's largest trading partners in Europe and among its top export destinations worldwide. Dutch companies like Philips, Shell, KLM and ASML have operated in India for decades, and the EU-India free trade agreement concluded in January 2026 covers IT services and professional mobility. The corridor is well worn. We just make the hiring part clean.
What about GDPR, data protection and IP?
Employment contracts include full IP assignment and confidentiality clauses enforceable under Indian law, so everything your team builds belongs to you. India runs its own data protection regime (the DPDP Act), and for personal data flowing from the EU we support standard contractual clauses and data processing agreements. Your legal counsel signs off; we implement.
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. Familiar territory if you're used to Dutch notice periods, but with no preventive dismissal review and no transition payment. 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 BV.
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. Compare that with the months a hard-to-fill Dutch tech vacancy stays open, plus the one or two month notice period your local candidate still has to serve.
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 €185 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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