Hire Employees Across Asia Pacific

Payroll outsourcing means hiring a provider to run your payroll for you — processing salaries, calculating statutory deductions, filing contributions with local authorities, and issuing payslips. You keep the employment relationship and make all decisions on headcount and compensation. The provider handles the mechanics and compliance.

This is different from an Employer of Record, where the provider becomes the legal employer. With payroll outsourcing, your company stays in that seat.

Who employs the worker. With payroll outsourcing, your company is the legal employer. You have a local entity, direct employment contracts with each person, and the provider handles the payroll processing and statutory filings on your behalf. With an Employer of Record, the EOR is the legal employer and you don't need a local entity at all.

If you're already incorporated in the country, payroll outsourcing is usually the simpler path. If you're not, EOR gets you there faster without the setup cost.

Salary processing, statutory contribution calculations and payments, payslip generation, and year-end tax filings with local authorities. The specifics vary by country — CPF in Singapore, EPF and SOCSO in Malaysia, SSF in Thailand, and equivalents across the other markets — but AYP's in-country teams handle the local rules. Leave management and expense reimbursement are also available.

What isn't included: employment contracts and HR decisions stay with your company. AYP processes payroll on your behalf; it's not the employer.

Each country runs its own statutory schemes, filing calendars, and payslip rules. Singapore has CPF. Malaysia has EPF, SOCSO, and EIS. Indonesia has BPJS. Japan has shakai hoken. The rates and deadlines change, sometimes annually.

AYP has in-country teams in each market rather than centralising compliance from one location. Each team files directly with local authorities. You don't need to track the rules for each jurisdiction yourself.

Yes. AYP covers 13+ markets across Asia under a single agreement and account team. Each country's payroll still runs to local rules, but you deal with one provider instead of separate vendors in each market. Once you're running payroll in more than two or three countries, that tends to matter quite a bit.

Usually 4 to 6 weeks from signing to first payroll run. The main variables: number of employees, whether you need a backrun for prior pay periods, and how quickly you can get employee data across. A single country with a small headcount and no backrun can be ready in under four weeks. Multi-country setups or historical data migrations take longer.

Yes. Payroll outsourcing requires a registered entity in the country where your employees are based. AYP files and processes on behalf of your entity — it doesn't replace it.

If you don't have a local entity yet, that's where an Employer of Record comes in. AYP offers both; the right one depends on whether you're already incorporated locally.