Employment Hero Review (2026)Those Dollars Are Australian

Pricing (2026)

✓ Pricing re-verified 6 Oct 2026

(2026-08-28, read on their own pricing page at employmenthero.com/pricing/; re-verified 2026-10-06) EVERY PRICE ON THAT PAGE IS AUD EXCLUDING GST — the page states it in its own disclaimer. It is the Australian page; separate pages exist for the UK, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Canada, and there is no US one. Sold as separate modules rather than one plan. Recruitment: Pro 50, Pro 100 and Pro 200 at A$199, A$359 and A$639 a month for 50, 100 and 200 AI video interviews.

The free ATS tier at A$0 with 50 one-off complimentary interviews that the page showed in August was no longer on it on 6 October 2026, in the served HTML or in a browser render. The disclaimer also names a 300-interview plan but publishes no price for it. Those are annual-billing rates — the disclaimer gives A$2,388 a year for the 50-interview plan at a 20% discount, against A$249 a month on monthly billing.

Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.

Category context: HR & People. Across the 13 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is $14 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →

What the pricing page doesn’t say

The catch

Then the structure. HR, recruitment, chat and payroll are separate subscriptions, most of them per employee, with a stated minimum of ten users underneath — so a six-person company is billed for ten. Payroll no longer carries its own price at all: it is inside the quote-only Employment Unlimited tier, or an A$20-a-head add-on with a A$400 floor. And the recruitment tiers meter AI video interviews rather than people, with credits that reset monthly, do not roll over, and overage billed automatically with no hard cap.

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What Employment Hero does

Modular HR, payroll and recruitment platform for small and mid-size employers.

What buyers report about Employment Hero

Hands-on: not tested by usDocumented by the vendor: 5 features, read 2026-10-10Reported by buyers: G2, Capterra, GetApp and Research, read August 2026

Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Employment Hero ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.

When the paid plan is worth it

This is a menu rather than a ladder, so the question is which modules you are buying — and in which currency. The page is the Australian one, its disclaimer says every figure is AUD excluding GST, and there is no US page. HR Essentials is A$10 per employee a month and HR Engage A$14; above them, HR Elite and Employment Unlimited are quote-only. Payroll no longer carries a price of its own: it sits inside Employment Unlimited, or you buy Managed Payroll at A$20 per employee with a A$400 monthly floor.

Recruitment is metered on a different axis and is the part worth doing sums on. A$199, A$359 and A$639 buy 50, 100 and 200 AI video interviews — A$3.98, A$3.59 and A$3.20 each, so the rate per interview keeps improving all the way up the published ladder. A 300-interview plan exists too, but Employment Hero prints no price for it, so there is no fourth figure to compare. Those are annual-billing rates; monthly billing is A$249 for the 50.

What upgrading does not solve: credits reset every month, unused ones do not roll over, and overage is billed automatically with no hard cap, so a heavy hiring month costs extra on the largest plan too. The ten-user minimum sits under the per-employee rates whichever tier you pick.

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How to actually use Employment Hero

Build the sum yourself, and build it in Australian dollars: the pricing page is the AU one and every figure on it excludes GST. HR Essentials is A$10 a head, HR Engage A$14, Chat A$2 with a A$20 monthly minimum — and a stated ten-user minimum sits under all of it, so a six-person company is billed for ten. Payroll has no standalone price any more: budget Managed Payroll at A$20 a head with a A$400 floor, or get a quote for Employment Unlimited.

Treat recruitment as a separate decision, because it is metered differently from everything else. It counts AI video interviews rather than people — A$199, A$359 and A$639 for 50, 100 and 200 on annual billing, or A$249 for the 50 if you pay monthly. A 300-interview plan is named in the disclaimer with no price attached, so ask for that one rather than budgeting a guess. Check the overage before you commit: credits reset monthly, do not roll over, and the excess is billed automatically with no cap.

Read the asterisks before you compare this with anything: they are the difference between the quote you modelled and the invoice you get.

Employment Hero vs Deel, side by side

Where a vendor publishes a price, its column shows the entry price we read and when; where it does not, the column says so rather than filling in a figure from elsewhere. We do not average them into a score.

Employment Hero →

What it costs

No single entry price; the full review breaks the pricing down.

Price read on

6 Oct 2026

The catch

Every figure on the pricing page is AUD excluding GST with no US page, and HR, recruitment, chat and payroll are separate subscriptions with a minimum of ten users.

Best for

Australian and New Zealand employers who want HR and payroll from one vendor and will genuinely use both, where the per-employee rate beats separate systems

Deel →

What it costs

From $14 a month per worker for Find talent (hiring); Contractor, PEO and EOR are priced separately, up to $599

Price read on

9 Oct 2026

The catch

Every price is a ‘starting at’ and every button says ‘book a demo’ — the real bill depends on countries, benefits and add-ons, and only firms up in a sales conversation.

Best for

companies hiring internationally without local entities — contractors paid compliantly in 150+ countries, or full EOR employment where you need someone on the ground fast

The Deel link above is an affiliate link — we may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you — and the other column is a plain link. Neither changes what this table says.

The natural comparison is BambooHR or Deel — the usual comparison — build the total for the modules you actually need at your headcount, and convert before you compare: Employment Hero publishes in AUD excluding GST while both of those publish in USD.

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Frequently asked questions

Who counts towards the per-employee bill?

More people than the word employee suggests. Employment Hero's invoice guide (read 6 October 2026) bills the HR platform on the higher of the users in your contract and the actual users in the system, and an actual user is anyone set up in it who is active or pending at the end of the month: employees, contractors, managers, admins and the CEO all count. The count is a snapshot taken on the last day of the month, so someone offboarded on the 1st is billed for the whole month before. The pricing page adds a floor of 10 users on every HR plan, and each add-on bills the greater of its monthly minimum and your actual billable employees. Billing runs monthly in arrears: the invoice at the start of a month covers the month before.

Can I cancel or downsize online?

You can ask online, but you cannot finish it yourself. The billing article (read 6 October 2026) sends plan changes, add-on removal, more or fewer users and cancellation through the same request form under Billings > Subscriptions, available to admins: you pick a reason, describe the change and submit, and an Employment Hero representative contacts you to carry it out. Neither that article nor the pricing page states a notice period or minimum term, and the pricing page refers to a customer agreement for the contracted number of users, so read that agreement before signing: not confirmed on the public pages.

Is this a hands-on review of Employment Hero?

This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we have no affiliate relationship with Employment Hero — we earn nothing whether you sign up or not.

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