Best Employer of Record (EOR) Providers for Media & Entertainment
Media, entertainment, advertising, and gaming companies assemble talent around projects and productions that rarely respect borders — creative teams, producers, editors, and studio staff are pulled together wherever the right people are. Employing them compliantly, rather than stringing together freelance arrangements that invite misclassification claims, is where an Employer of Record (EOR) helps: the EOR becomes the local legal employer and handles payroll, benefits, and employment compliance in each worker's country.
For studios and agencies scaling globally, an EOR turns an ad-hoc international freelance bench into a compliant, employed team. The EOR providers below all support media and entertainment employers and are ranked by the HC Score (HC 3.2) across 21 verified factors, so you can compare coverage, compliance, and verified outcomes on neutral data.
Top-Ranked EOR Providers for Media & Entertainment
Ranked by HC Score — based on verified customer endorsements, business cases, and 21 merit factors.
Deel provides a platform to hire, manage, pay, and equip workers across locations, combining global payroll, HR/HRIS, compliance, and related services like immigration and IT device management.
EOR $599/employee/mo
Papaya Global provides an enterprise Workforce OS and Payments OS to manage global payroll, contingent workforce operations, compliance, and cross-border workforce payments (employees, contractors, vendors, and authoriti
EOR from $499/employee/mo
Enterprise freelancer management platform for contingent workforce compliance and global payments.
CXC provides contingent workforce management and global hiring solutions, combining compliance expertise and technology to help companies source, engage (EoR/AoR), manage, and pay contractors and international workers ac
Unified freelance management platform for global workforce.
B Corp certified BPO offering managed outsourcing and employer-of-record services across the Philippines, South Africa, Mexico, Canada, and the US.
Remote Technology, Inc. provides a unified global HR platform to recruit, hire, onboard, manage, and pay international employees and contractors compliantly, including EOR, global payroll, contractor compliance, and U.S.
EOR $599 (annual) – $699 (monthly)/employee/mo
MBO helps enterprises engage and manage top independent talent with confidence, compliance, and scale.
Lifted provides an enterprise contingent workforce platform to source, onboard, classify, manage, and pay external talent across multiple engagement models (IC, staff aug, EOR, AOR, outsourcing) with global compliance an
Keen EOR Plus+ helps companies build full-time, in-office teams in South Africa with recruitment, employment, HR, compliance, equipment, management, and ongoing support included.
Career Group Companies is a women-owned recruiting and staffing firm delivering high-touch hiring solutions—temporary, temp-to-hire, direct hire, executive search, payroll/EOR for temps, and RPO—through specialized divis
Employer of Record and payroll in 70+ countries, run by operators
Atrium provides modern workforce and talent solutions, including staffing and recruiting plus enterprise extended workforce program design and management through AtriumWORKS™ (MSP, EOR payrolling, IC compliance, direct s