Pricing & Getting Started

In today’s world, being able to hire talent from any country or region can help your business be competitive and successful, but hiring around the world can be hard. We designed Upwork Any Hire to help make it easier.

Any Hire helps you hire, onboard, and pay professionals from other countries, regions, or states where you don’t have a business entity. Any Hire also helps you classify professionals and meet each country’s legal requirements — such as whether you can work with your talent as an independent contractor or as a payrolled employee. In the case of payrolled employee, Any Hire arranges an Employer of Record (EOR) in the talent’s country to handle paychecks, taxes, benefits and other legal concerns.

Any Hire fees are billed bi-weekly on Mondays for all contracts which were active for any period of time during the billing cycle. Contract amounts are billed based on the cadence that is set at the time the contract is created.

If you already have an Upwork account, you can login to Any Hire with your existing Upwork credentials here

If you don’t have an Upwork account, you can sign up for Any Hire here 

The Any Hire dashboard is simple and easy to use. To onboard talent and start a contract with them:

1. Go to the contracts page and select Start contract
2. Select contract type
3. Enter the contract details, your professional’s information, and compliance information
4. Review the contract terms and send the invite

Important Note: For us to make an accurate classification determination the information requested for classification needs to be accurate. If you have any doubts, confirm with your professional or contact Upwork support if it is a question about Any Hire functionality.

No. You can hire your talent on Any Hire regardless of whether they have an existing Upwork account or not so long as you did not initially find the individual on the Upwork platform.

If you found talent on the Upwork marketplace, the Upwork conversion process must be completed prior to bringing the relationship to Any Hire.

To add a payment method, go to the settings page and enter your information. That’s all you have to do — you’ll automatically be billed and charged on either a weekly or bi-weekly basis (depending on which preference you set). We bill for any contract that is active during any portion of each billing period.

To keep things simple for you, we combine all costs into one single payment. This includes the talent’s payment, the Any Hire per-contract and payment processing fees, any EOR charges, and applicable taxes. Invoices have a clear, easy-to-read, per-contract breakdown of all fees and costs that were charged in the payment.

When creating each independent contractor contract you will be presented with the option to set the payment frequency. 

Domestic engagements supported through the Upwork Payroll solution are automatically set to weekly billing, international Upwork Payroll billing is determined based on local regulations and will be provided following a formal pricing quote.

Often we are able to classify contracts based solely on input from clients, however, in some instances we must collect additional business information directly from the talent in order to make a confident classification recommendation for the contract.

Any Hire will email your talent a request to provide the required additional information which will be used by Upwork to provide a classification recommendation. Talent will not see the outcome of this classification determination.

Clients will then be notified with a classification recommendation and prompted to return to the contract draft to proceed with finalizing your contract offer.

Related Content: Worker Classification: Employee vs Independent Contractor

Signing up for Any Hire is simple and free. 

Enter your email and preferred password, or sign up via your Google or Apple account, or use your existing login if you already have an Upwork account. You can find the link to sign up here.

• Go directly to https://www.upwork.com/remote/client/

• Or from upwork.com, navigate to Jobs → Any Hire

Yes, you can use your existing Upwork account. You will keep all of your history, payment methods and preferences from Upwork when you use Any Hire.

Yes, Any Hire works with your existing teams, if you are using teams on Upwork to organize your work. When you create a new offer on Any Hire, you will be able to select which of your existing teams you want to create the offer in.

Migration of independent contractor contracts are typically completed within a few business days. 

Please note that timing may be impacted based on how quickly talent accepts their contracts and if the engagement is supported through the Upwork Payroll solution. Upwork Payroll engagements in the US can typically become active within roughly 7 business days while Upwork Payroll engagements outside the US can take longer.

To get started, your talent will simply need to accept the new Any Hire offer you send.

Your talent will continue to use their existing Upwork account and can continue to use the platform to manage their work with you, including logging hours on Upwork's time tracker (if hourly) and submitting completed milestones (if fixed price). Additionally, if desired, Job Success Scores can still be submitted to help build their work history.

Your talent is no longer charged a service fee once you move to Any Hire, so they take home more pay. Any Hire does not offnor payment protection — both features are exclusively available in our BYO and marketplace service offerings.

Independent contractors will continue to have funds available weekly so long as you select that option when setting the payment frequency.

Additionally, independent contractors can still use the Upwork platform to manage their work with you, including logging hours (if hourly) and submitting completed milestones (if fixed price). They can continue to use Upwork’s time tracker if they want and can continue to use the preferred payout method they have already selected.

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Any Hire does not directly provide services to source talent. You should use Any Hire when you have identified talent without Upwork’s help.

When you do want to use Upwork to find talent, you can leverage:

• Post jobs to attract proposals to find the right freelancer for your need
• Get help from a Talent Scout recruiter to help source marketplace talent
• Search, browse and buy fixed projects that freelancers have created with Project Catalog

Large organizations looking to hire and manage talent at scale are encouraged to leverage Upwork Enterprise.

No, this benefit is only available through Upwork’s marketplace offerings. Any Hire does not offer payment guarantees.

No, this benefit is only available through our marketplace offering. Any Hire does not offer dispute mediation, we hope that Clients and Professions using Any Hire are able to work together directly to resolve any issues that may arise during their relationship.

Migration of independent contractor contracts are typically completed within a few business days. 

Please note that timing may be impacted based on how quickly talent accepts their contracts and if the engagement is supported through the Upwork Payroll solution. Upwork Payroll engagements in the US can typically become active within roughly 7 business days while Upwork Payroll engagements outside the US can take longer.

To get started, your talent will simply need to accept the new Any Hire offer you send.

Your talent will continue to use their existing Upwork account and can continue to use the platform to manage their work with you, including logging hours on Upwork's time tracker (if hourly) and submitting completed milestones (if fixed price). Additionally, if desired, Job Success Scores can still be submitted to help build their work history.

Your talent is no longer charged a service fee once you move to Any Hire, so they take home more pay. Any Hire does not offnor payment protection — both features are exclusively available in our BYO and marketplace service offerings.

Independent contractors will continue to have funds available weekly so long as you select that option when setting the payment frequency.

Additionally, independent contractors can still use the Upwork platform to manage their work with you, including logging hours (if hourly) and submitting completed milestones (if fixed price). They can continue to use Upwork’s time tracker if they want and can continue to use the preferred payout method they have already selected.

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