Employer of Record · Sri Lanka
Hire in Sri Lanka without setting up a company.
ReadyWorkforce legally employs your team in Sri Lanka, runs payroll and statutory contributions, and carries the compliance risk — so you can hire before you incorporate.
🇺🇸🇦🇺Trusted by firms employing in Sri Lanka from the US & Australia
What we handle
Everything an employer is legally required to do here. Handled.
Employment
Compliant local contracts in line with the Shop and Office Employees Act. Onboarding, confirmation, leave administration, and exits managed end to end.
Payroll & statutory
Monthly payroll in LKR, EPF and ETF contributions, APIT deducted and remitted, and payslips your team can actually read.
Compliance & risk
Labour Department filings, termination procedure, and gratuity liability tracked and provisioned — so a hire this quarter doesn't become a dispute in three years.
How it works
From offer letter to first payday.
You choose the person
You interview and select. We can source if you'd prefer, but most clients arrive with a candidate already picked.
We paper the employment
A compliant Sri Lankan contract on your terms — salary, benefits, notice, IP assignment, confidentiality.
They join, employed by us
Legally our employee, working entirely for you. Day-to-day direction stays with your managers.
You get one invoice a month
Salary, statutory contributions, and our fee on a single line. No entity, no local bank account, no tax registration.
Why Sri Lanka
A talent market most global platforms haven't properly opened.
01Cost
Fully-loaded employment cost runs well below comparable roles in Australia, the UK, or the US — without the wage inflation now visible in India and the Philippines.
02English
Business is conducted in English. Legal, financial, and technical work needs no translation layer.
03Time zone
UTC+5:30 — a full working-day overlap with Australia and the GCC, a strong morning overlap with the UK, and overnight handoff for US teams.
04Depth
Established talent pools in finance and accounting, software engineering, apparel and supply chain, and shared services.
Working-day overlap · Colombo UTC+5:30
Indicative overlap during a Colombo working day.
We wanted a Colombo team before we were ready to open an entity. ReadyWorkforce had our first two engineers employed and paid inside a fortnight — and we never touched a compliance form.
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The wider practice
Beyond employer of record.
Fifteen years of Sri Lankan HR expertise sits behind every placement. It's also available on its own.
HR consulting & transformation
Policy and process design, compensation benchmarking, human capital budgeting, and HR outsourcing for companies operating in Sri Lanka.
See our consulting servicesBoard & executive advisory
Governance, remuneration, and organisational design support at board level, drawn from two decades across industry and current directorships.
Meet the founderGet started
Tell us the role. We'll send the fully-loaded cost.
Send a job title and target salary, and you'll get a complete monthly breakdown — gross, EPF, ETF, gratuity provision, and our fee — usually within one working day.