Start-Ops legally employs your people in Mexico — contracts, payroll, IMSS, INFONAVIT, severance, every CFDI receipt. All REPSE-registered. All bilingual. All run by humans you can actually call. You get the team. We carry the paperwork.
REPSE-registered · Based in Guadalajara · English-first · Bilingual team
Trusted by foreign teams across Software · Aerospace · Automotive · Medical Devices · Manufacturing · Digital Marketing · Mining · Electronics
Hiring in Mexico is a maze of acronyms — REPSE, IMSS, INFONAVIT, SAT, CFDI, PTU. Expansion teams usually hit one of three dead ends.
Setting up your own S de RL takes 3 to 6 months and runs $8–15k in legal fees — and once you’re done, you own the ongoing tax filings, labor compliance, and severance math you didn’t sign up for.
Mexico is one tile in a 150-country grid. Templates are generic. Support is a ticket queue. Nobody on the call has actually filed a CFDI receipt or talked to an IMSS auditor.
Mexican labor authorities aggressively reclassify contractors as employees. When that happens, you owe back-pay, severance, IMSS contributions and fines — sometimes a year of salary per person.
Start-Ops is your Employer of Record in Mexico. We legally employ your team here, run their payroll, handle every filing, and pick up the phone when something goes sideways. One country. One contract. Real humans.
Bilingual contract drafted, IMSS and INFONAVIT registration done, first payroll run — without forming an entity.
REPSE, the 2021 outsourcing reform, aguinaldo, PTU, severance — we work this every day. The answer is right the first time.
EOR, payroll, compliance, recruiting, visas, fractional CFO — under one roof. One relationship, one invoice, no vendor stitching.
A named account manager in Guadalajara. US-business hours. Predictable monthly fee, capped at 15% of gross — no surprise invoices.
Send the role, salary and offer terms in English. We translate into a Mexican-compliant package — gross-to-net, aguinaldo, vacation premium, IMSS, the works.
REPSE-aligned, CFDI-ready, reviewed against Mexican Federal Labor Law. Your hire signs in Spanish; you keep an English mirror copy.
We register your hire with the SAT, IMSS and INFONAVIT, set up CFDI payroll, and direct-deposit their first paycheck in MXN.
Monthly CFDI receipts, IMSS and INFONAVIT filings, ISR withholding, year-end aguinaldo, severance when needed — handled.
Yes — and it’s not a problem. Legally we’re the employer of record. Your hire signs with us, gets paid by us, and has their statutory benefits through us. In practice they work for you, take direction from you, and are fully part of your team. We handle the legal employer side. You handle the work.
We help you transition. Many clients start on EOR to move fast, then incorporate once the team is proven. We can run both in parallel and migrate payroll over when you’re ready — no penalty, no lock-in. We can also be the firm that incorporates the entity for you.
The first hire goes live in two weeks once we have the offer terms. Subsequent hires move faster — usually a week. The bottleneck is almost never us; it’s how fast your candidate can hand over their RFC and CURP.
Yes. Our REPSE registration is verifiable on the public registry of Mexico’s Ministry of Labor. We file monthly with IMSS, INFONAVIT and SAT. We will walk you through our compliance posture before you sign anything — including how we handle the 2021 outsourcing reform.
A flat per-employee monthly fee, capped at 15% of gross salary, with tier discounts as your Mexican team grows. No setup fees on the first hire. Quoted on the call — no surprises.
Yes. Mexican severance is calculated under Articles 47, 48 and 162 of the Federal Labor Law and varies by reason and tenure. We model the cost in advance, run the conversation in Spanish, and process the final liquidation correctly so it doesn’t come back as a lawsuit.
Book a 30-minute call. No deck. No sales script. We’ll walk through your hiring plan and tell you whether EOR or a Mexican entity is the right fit — even if the answer is the entity.
Real humans · Same time zone · Replies in hours, not days
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