Employer of Record in Egypt: The Best and the Rest

Deel offers Egyptian employment through its global HR and payroll platform, bringing contracts, onboarding, monthly pay, employee records and benefits into one system. Its Egypt EOR fee starts at US$599 per employee per month, with employment costs and optional benefits charged separately.

Its work with Allium and Dandy shows how that service works in practice. Deel helped Allium hire an engineer in Egypt without opening a local entity. At Dandy’s Cairo office, Deel onboarded 43 EOR employees in two hours, demonstrating its ability to support a coordinated team launch. Its connection to Egypt also extends to leadership: Mohamed Tantawy, Deel’s Director of HR Experience, is Egyptian.

For companies building teams across several countries, Deel’s appeal is the ability to manage Egyptian employees alongside international hires in one platform. Local employment sits within a broader offering that includes contractor management, global payroll, HR tools and optional private health cover.

RemotePeople combines recruitment and Employer of Record services, helping companies find talent in Egypt and employ it through its own local entity. The service brings candidate sourcing, employment contracts, payroll, benefits and ongoing HR support into one relationship, with wider support for international hiring and immigration.

Its work with Real Essentials illustrates that combination. The US apparel company used RemotePeople to recruit and employ quality inspectors across Egypt, China and India, giving it local quality-control teams close to its manufacturing operations. Production Manager Rochelle LaNeve describes a relationship that began in 2021 and supported the business as its international requirements grew.

RemotePeople is particularly relevant when a company needs both help finding Egyptian candidates and a way to employ them. Its broader platform also placed 69th in G2’s 2026 Fastest Growing Products list, complementing its practical recruitment and employment offering.

Safeguard Global employs in Egypt through PEO-Egypt for Consulting LLC, combining local employment, payroll and HR administration with a wider international workforce service. Its offering is well suited to businesses coordinating Egyptian hires alongside employees in several other markets.

One example is its work with a rideshare business expanding across 34 countries, including Egypt. Safeguard hired, onboarded and paid 189 employees across that international engagement over two years, helping the customer enter new markets without building a separate employment operation in each one.

Alongside this delivery experience, Safeguard was named a Leader in NelsonHall’s 2026 EOR evaluation and received HRM Asia’s 2025 Gold award for Best EOR Service Provider. Its main attraction is the combination of an Egyptian employing company with established international payroll and workforce-management capabilities.

Second Step is a Cairo-based HR and outsourcing business serving Egypt, the Middle East and the GCC. From its Sheraton–El Nozha office, it combines local employment with recruitment, payroll, personnel administration and wider business support.

Its EOR service covers employment contracts, onboarding and ongoing employee administration. Payroll support includes salaries, allowances, deductions, tax, social insurance, payslips and payment coordination. Companies can also draw on its staffing, training, finance and back-office teams when their requirements go beyond employing an individual remote worker.

This makes Second Step a practical option for businesses building an Egyptian operating team or supporting regional projects. Its local service model is especially relevant when recruitment and hands-on personnel administration matter as much as the payroll platform. The company describes its operating history as dating to 2013.

Skuad, now part of Payoneer Workforce Management, combines employment, payroll and benefits for companies building international teams. Its Egyptian group company is Skuad Solutions. Egypt monthly EOR pricing starts at US$249 per employee, with a US$199 monthly option advertised for a 12-month commitment, subject to the offer’s conditions.

The service has supported RemoteLock’s international technical hiring, including Egypt. Across six countries, RemoteLock managed 26 team members through a combination of EOR and Agent of Record services, using the platform to support a distributed workforce as the business expanded.

For an employer considering Egypt alongside other hiring markets, Skuad/Payoneer offers a relatively low starting management fee and the convenience of administering a dispersed team in one system. Salary, employer contributions, benefits and any additional services still need to be included in the full employment budget.

Staff Arabia is an Egyptian HR and outsourcing provider with more than 20 years of experience across the MENA region. Its Dokki-based team combines EOR employment, recruitment, payroll, personnel administration and workforce mobility, making it a strong fit for companies that need substantial local HR support.

Its Egypt work includes an EOR engagement with British Council Egypt covering employment outsourcing, payroll and personnel administration. A separate payroll-transformation project for Concentrix Egypt demonstrates its ability to support larger and more complex payroll operations. The business is led by CEO Iyad Hafez and Managing Partner Mayada Maged, and its partnership with Gi Group Holding adds an international recruitment connection.

Staff Arabia was shortlisted for EOR Organisation of the Year at the 2024 Global Payroll Awards and received MEA Markets’ 2021 Best Executive Search & HR Consulting Firm award for Egypt. Its appeal lies in combining local employment with practical recruitment and workforce support.

TargetHR, also known as Target Recruitment & HR Solutions, operates in Egypt through Target Human Resources Services SAE, an Egyptian joint-stock company. Its teams in New Cairo and Alexandria provide EOR employment, payroll outsourcing, recruitment, labour-relations support and work-permit services.

The business brings experience with larger outsourced workforces. When it joined the World Employment Confederation in 2022, Target reported approximately 3,500 outsourced staff, 1,500 annual recruitments and 100 work permits a year. Those figures give a dated indication of its operating scale and the range of work handled by its team.

Since January 2025, Target has also operated under a Manpower brand licence in Egypt. For buyers, the combination of local offices, workforce administration and international recruitment connections is useful when an Egyptian hiring plan involves more than contracts and monthly payroll.

Tawzef for Recruitment & HR Consultancy has served Egyptian and regional employers since 2007. Its Cairo team combines EOR employment, payroll, recruitment and manpower outsourcing with assessments and salary surveys, helping businesses both build and manage their local workforce.

The company holds local recruitment licence 22 and overseas recruitment licence 671. These support its work sourcing talent within Egypt and deploying Egyptian employees to overseas markets, particularly the GCC. Managing Director Mahmoud Salem leads a business whose wider HR client relationships include Ideal Standard Egypt, Opera Software, IDH and Magrabi.

Tawzef’s partnerships with Central Test and Birches Group extend its assessment and compensation capabilities. This breadth is useful for employers that need help choosing candidates, setting competitive pay and managing employment through one local HR relationship.

Top Business Group has operated in Egypt since 1993, combining EOR employment with payroll, personnel administration, recruitment, training and HR consulting. Its Egyptian companies are Top Business Human Resources Consultants and Top Business Limited, both based in Cairo, with a further group company in Dubai.

The group’s experience spans practical payroll and employment administration for established businesses. Client testimonials from Vodafone, Coca-Cola Atlantic, ECU LINE Egypt and EDC describe work involving payroll, social insurance, labour-office administration and outsourcing. Founder and CEO Emil Iskander leads the group from its base in Sheraton, Heliopolis.

Its wider HR work has received recognition including Corporate Vision’s 2025 Best HR Outsourcing Firm award for Egypt and International Business Magazine’s 2024 Egyptian HR consultancy and recruitment/training awards. The breadth of its service is particularly useful for employers building a long-term Egyptian team with training and HR-development needs alongside employment administration.

WorkMotion employs staff through its own Egyptian company, WorkMotion Egypt LLC, and manages contracts, social-insurance registration, payroll in Egyptian pounds and employee benefits through its international HR platform. Egypt is also an important operating base for the company, with more than 100 internal team members across Cairo and Alexandria according to co-founder Carsten Lebtig.

Its links to Egypt extend to co-founder Karim Zaghloul and senior leader Engy Kamal, alongside local engineering and customer-experience teams. That combination gives WorkMotion practical experience of building its own Egyptian workforce as well as administering employment for customers.

On 2 November 2026, Lifted, an Upwork company, announced its acquisition of WorkMotion. WorkMotion continues to serve small and medium-sized and mid-market businesses while becoming part of Lifted’s wider employment network. For companies expanding into Egypt from Europe or managing several international teams, the attraction is direct local employment supported by a shared platform.