Employer of Record · India
Hire, pay and manage your team in India — without setting up an entity
Aether Blue Associates is your Employer of Record in India. We handle employment contracts, payroll, taxes and every statutory filing — so your Indian team can start in days, not months. No salary deposits. No FX markups. No platform fees.
Compliance calendar · July
- TDS depositIncome-tax on salaries · due 7 JulFILED 05 JUL
- EPF contributionProvident Fund ECR · due 15 JulFILED 12 JUL
- ESI contributionEmployee State Insurance · due 15 JulFILED 12 JUL
- GST returnGSTR-3B · due 20 JulFILED 18 JUL
- Professional TaxState-wise PT deposit & returnFILED 19 JUL
- Payroll runPayslips + USD invoice issuedDONE 31 JUL
100% on-time filing record · proofs shared with every client, every cycle
Trusted by teams at
- AssetIntel
- Hello Recruiter
- CodeStandStealth AI
The problem we solve
Expanding to India shouldn't take months of paperwork
Without Aether Blue
Six months before your first hire starts.
Setting up an Indian subsidiary means company incorporation, tax registrations, labour-law compliance and payroll infrastructure — before your first employee begins. The filings never stop, and mistakes carry penalties.
With Aether Blue
Compliant from day one.
As your Employer of Record, your team in India is legally employed by us — contracts, payroll, benefits and every statutory filing covered — while working exclusively for you. You get the talent. We carry the compliance.
- Registered Indian Private Limited Company
- GST-registered · zero-rated exports under LUT
- EPF, ESI & TDS compliant employer
- Serving US-based clients since 2024
- Aligned to India's new Labour Codes (in force Nov 2025)
- Pan-India employment — all states & major cities
Services
What we do
Benefits
Employee benefits, done the proper way
Long-term benefits are where informal arrangements fail audits. We build them formally from day one.
- Leave SOPPolicy + registersA written leave policy aligned to state Shops & Establishments rules — earned, casual and sick leave, carry-forward and encashment — administered with proper leave registers and reflected correctly in payroll and full-and-final settlements.
- GratuityAccrued, not ignoredStatutory gratuity under the Payment of Gratuity Act is provisioned for every eligible employee from day one and settled transparently at exit — so a long-serving employee's dues never surface as a surprise liability.
- Group Gratuity FundFunded & ring-fencedWe maintain an approved Group Gratuity Fund structure so gratuity liabilities are funded and ring-fenced with a regulated insurer — not just a book entry. Your team's benefits stay secure independent of any single client engagement.
Process
How it works
Discovery call
We understand your roles, headcount plan and budget — and give you a transparent per-employee cost sheet.
Agreement
A straightforward Master Service Agreement covering scope, fees, confidentiality and IP protection.
Onboarding
Compliant employment contracts, EPF/ESI enrollment, documentation and induction for your selected candidates.
Run & report
Monthly payroll, statutory deposits and one USD invoice — with registers and compliance proofs every cycle.
First employee onboarded in as little as 5–7 working days.
On the record
What our clients say
“We needed engineering capacity in India without the overhead of an entity, and without compliance surprises in a business where compliance is everything. Aether Blue runs it like clockwork — contracts, payroll, filings, proofs — one invoice, zero follow-up needed from our side.”
Hooman ParvardehCEO, AssetIntelVerified client“Our India team is the core of our engineering org. Aether Blue onboarded our first hires in under a week and has never missed a payroll or a filing since. When India rewrote its labour laws, they'd already restructured everything before we even asked.”
Avi TiwariCFO, Hello RecruiterVerified client“We're pre-launch, so discretion and speed matter. Aether Blue gave us a compliant Indian team in days, bills us cleanly in USD, and handles everything we don't want to think about.”
Founding TeamCodeStandStealth AIVerified client
In force 21 November 2025
India rewrote its employment law. We've already implemented it.
Four Labour Codes replaced 29 central laws from 21 November 2025. Every employment we run is structured on the new framework, not the old one.
Why Aether Blue
Why India, and why us
Why India
- 60–70% cost savings versus equivalent US roles
- The world's largest pool of English-speaking professionals
- Time-zone advantage: your India team works while you sleep
- Mature remote-work culture and digital compliance infrastructure
Why Aether Blue
- A genuinely compliant employer — your people get PF, ESI and formal contracts, not gig arrangements
- Director-level attention on every account — no ticket queues
- USD invoicing as a zero-rated exporter — clean, GST-free billing
- Jharkhand-based: lower operating costs than metro providers, passed on to you
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Incorporated in India
100%
On-time statutory filings
USD
Zero-rated export billing
24–48h
Typical response time
Pricing
One flat monthly fee per employee
One flat monthly fee per employee, billed in USD. Salaries and statutory contributions are passed through at actuals with proofs — no markup.
1–5 employees
EOR — Starter
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- Compliant employment contracts
- Monthly payroll & payslips
- EPF, ESI, TDS & PT filed with proofs
- No setup fee, no deposit
6–15 employees
EOR — Growth
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- Everything in Starter
- Dedicated compliance calendar
- Leave, attendance & HR policy admin
- Monthly MIS for your finance team
16+ employees
EOR — Scale
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- Everything in Growth
- Quarterly compliance review calls
- Priority director-level support
- Entity-transition support when you're ready
FAQ
Common questions
Get started
Talk to a director, not a queue.
Tell us about the roles you're planning — we'll show you exactly what each hire costs and how fast we can get them working.
- Phone / WhatsApp
- +91 90067 78501
- Response time
- We reply within 24–48 hours, aligned to US business hours.