An EOR bills you per person, per month, for as long as you use one. Your own Philippine company costs a fixed amount to register and a fixed amount to keep. Move the two sliders and see where the lines cross — for most companies it is the second or third hire.
Every cost line on both sides, for the exact numbers you just set — year one itemised, year two onward, and a three-year total. One email, and nothing else unless you ask for it.
We will send you the summary and nothing else unless you ask. No card, no trial, no drip sequence.
That single difference is the whole calculation. Everything else is detail.
An EOR fee is charged per person on your payroll and it never stops. Ten people cost ten times what one person costs — in year one, and in year five.
SEC incorporation, BIR tax registration and your local permits are one-time filings. They cost the same whether you go on to hire one person or fifty.
A Corporate Secretary and a registered address are obligations of the company, not of its payroll. ₱12,500 a month covers both, at any headcount.
Year one is the closest the two options ever get. From year two the entity has no setup cost left, so it runs at ₱150,000 a year while the EOR invoice keeps growing with every hire.
Bookkeeping, monthly and quarterly tax filing, payroll processing and your annual audit are real costs of running your own company. They are not in the calculator because they are not in Korp’s published prices — they are quoted separately, on scope. Add them to the entity side before you decide anything. What the comparison does capture honestly is the part an EOR fee is actually replacing: the corporate registration and compliance layer.
The entity column is not an estimate. Each number in it is a price that already appears on this website.
From ₱45,000 for a Filipino-owned company, from ₱90,000 where there is foreign ownership. Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws, the treasurer’s affidavit and the Certificate of Incorporation itself.
From ₱30,000. The Certificate of Registration, your books of accounts registered through ORUS, and your first set of authorised invoices — the things standing between incorporation and a legal invoice.
From ₱20,000. Barangay clearance and the Mayor’s permit from the local government unit with jurisdiction over your registered address.
A named Korp officer holds the statutory role. The annual General Information Sheet, board and stockholder minutes, the Stock and Transfer Book, custody of your records, and a compliance calendar dated against your own by-laws.
A compliant business address for your SEC registration and your official correspondence, with mail received, scanned and forwarded. The address a regulator writes to should be one where somebody opens the envelope.
The one-month onboarding fee on the Corporate Secretary retainer is waived for companies Korp incorporates. That is why the calculator shows it at zero — if you incorporate elsewhere and move the compliance work to us later, it applies.
We sell entities, so treat this as the section where we argue against ourselves. There are four situations where an EOR is the better call and the arithmetic above should not decide it.
One or two hires for six months to find out. Incorporating and then dissolving costs more than the EOR fee you would have paid, and closing a Philippine corporation properly is considerably slower than opening one.
SEC registration takes roughly 30 days in a clean case, with BIR registration and local permits behind it. An EOR can onboard in days. If the hire cannot wait, use the EOR as a bridge — moving that employee onto your own entity later is routine.
No office, no local customers, no local invoicing, and no intention of ever having any. A company you do not otherwise need is overhead with a filing calendar attached.
At a single employee and a low quoted fee, the two columns are close enough that the decision turns on things a slider cannot see. Set the calculator to one person and your real quote and you will see how narrow it gets.
The pattern we see most often is a company that started on an EOR for entirely good reasons, grew to five or six people, and never revisited the decision. By that point the annual difference is larger than the whole cost of having registered the entity in the first place. If you are past three employees and still employing through an EOR, the arithmetic is worth an hour of somebody’s time.
An EOR is built for the first. Korp is built for the second. Where the two overlap, here is what each one actually gives you.
An EOR onboards faster than any registration can be completed, and it runs payroll, which Korp does not. If those two rows are what you are actually buying, they matter more than the cost comparison above. Everything below them is the part an EOR fee does not buy you.
Korp is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for any Employer of Record provider, and this page names none. The EOR figure used in the calculator is entered by you and opens at the midpoint of a range we observed in publicly listed pricing in September 2026; it is not a quote and it is not attributed to any provider. Entity figures are Korp’s own published prices, exclusive of government fees, which are billed at cost, and subject to the terms on our pricing page — monthly services carry a three-month minimum. Currency converted at ₱60 to the US dollar, the rate our published price pairs use; real exchange rates move. Nothing on this page is legal, tax, or accounting advice, and no calculator is a substitute for advice on your own situation.
Headcount, ownership, when the first person needs to be employed, and what you need on the accounting side. We will price it against your situation rather than against a slider.
