Team operations · Egypt 🇪🇬

Your branch in Egypt — without opening one.

RowBranch employs, pays, equips, and cares for your team in Egypt. One statement a month. One partner on the ground in Cairo — not a dashboard.

FROM $150 / PERSON / MONTH · NO ENTITY · NO LOCK-IN
Monthly statementJUL 2026
Salaries — 5 engineerspassed through at actual, receipts attached$8,400.00
Social insurance & payroll taxfiled & paid, Egypt$427.00
Equipment — 1 laptop (new joiner)procured & configured$1,120.00
Team event — Q3 gatheringvenue, dinner, rides$310.00
Expense reimbursements — 3 receiptspaid to employees, receipts attached$148.00
RowBranch — Managed × 5$1,250.00
Total — one invoice$11,655.00
PAYROLL ON TIME ✓
The problem

Hiring in Egypt is easy. Employing in Egypt isn't.

Doing it yourself

  • Open a legal entity: months of GAFI paperwork, capital, ongoing filings
  • Learn Egyptian labor law, payroll tax, social insurance
  • Or pay a global EOR platform ~$599/person — for payroll only
  • Nobody on the ground: no laptops, no workspace, no team culture

With RowBranch

  • Your people compliantly employed in 1–2 weeks — no entity
  • Payroll, tax, and social insurance filed and paid for you
  • Laptops, workspace, tools, and team events — handled
  • A real partner in Cairo who answers the phone, for you and your team
What we run

You steer. We row.

You direct your team's work, every day, directly. We run the entire employment and operations layer underneath it.

PAYROLL

Employment & payroll (EOR)

We legally employ your team in Egypt — contracts, monthly payroll, payslips, income tax and social insurance, fully compliant with Egyptian labor law.

CONTRACT

Contractor management

Prefer contractors? We manage agreements, monthly payouts, and clean paper trails — with a clear line between contractor and employee status.

EQUIP

Equipment & logistics

Laptops procured, configured, tracked, and repaired. New joiners ready on day one; assets recovered on exit.

SPACE

Workspace & tools

Coworking desks, tool subscriptions, and licenses managed under one roof — one invoice instead of eleven.

EXPENSE

Expenses & reimbursements

Work expenses your team incurs — equipment, supplies, meals — reimbursed locally in EGP within days, then passed through on your monthly statement with every receipt attached.

TRAVEL

Business travel & visas

When your team travels for work: employment & salary letters for visa applications (issued by us as the legal employer), application support, and managed ground transport via Uber for Business.

CREW

Team culture & events

Quarterly gatherings, transport, and swag with your logo. A remote team that actually feels like a crew.

GROUND

A human in Cairo

One accountable partner who answers the phone — for you and for your team. Same timezone as the Gulf, 1–2 hours off Europe.

Pricing

Simple, per person. A quarter of platform prices.

Salaries and costs pass through at actual, with receipts. Our fee is the only thing we charge. Billed monthly — no lock-in.

Which one? Not ready to employ yet → Contractors. Have your own ops person → Essential. Want zero ops on your side → Managed.

Contractors

$50 / person / mo
The light way to start in Egypt
  • Contractor agreements & records
  • Monthly payouts in EGP or USD
  • Clean paper trail for your books
  • Misclassification guidance
  • Convert to employees anytime
Start with Contractors

Essential

$150 / person / mo
Compliant employment, done right
  • Legal employment (EOR) in Egypt
  • Monthly payroll, payslips & statutory filings
  • Income tax & social insurance compliance
  • Employment contracts & records
  • Expense reimbursements passed through
  • One consolidated monthly statement
Start with Essential
Most chosen

Managed

$250 / person / mo
Employment + the full operations layer
  • Everything in Essential
  • Equipment: procurement, setup & tracking
  • Workspace & tool subscriptions managed
  • Onboarding & offboarding on the ground
  • Business travel: visa letters & transport
  • Priority local support for your team
Start with Managed
Add-ons: quarterly team events (flat fee + costs at actual) · private medical insurance (arranged on request) · branded swag · office arrangements — every pass-through documented with receipts.
Compare

Platforms give you software. We give you a branch.

RowBranchGlobal EOR platformsYour own entity
Price per person$150–250/mo~$599/mo$20k+ setup & staff
Compliant employment & payroll
A human on the ground in Cairo
Equipment & workspace handledDIY
Team events & cultureDIY
Time to first hire~1–2 weeks~2 weeks3–6 months
How it works

Three steps to a running branch

STEP 1

Tell us who

You've hired someone in Egypt — or we help you find them. Share the role, net salary, and start date.

STEP 2

We employ & set up

Compliant contract, payroll registration, laptop, workspace, tools — typically within 1–2 weeks.

STEP 3

You steer, we row

Your team works for you day-to-day. We run everything underneath — one statement, receipts for every pass-through.

Already rowing

This isn't a concept. It's a running operation.

RowBranch productizes an operation that already runs today for a US software company — quietly, reliably, every month.

7+ people employed & managed in Egypt today
On-time payroll, every month
Full stack run: payroll · equipment · tools · quarterly team events
~$31k/yr saved for the client in one ops review
MS

Mohamed Salah

Founder — Cairo, Egypt

Engineering and operations leader — ex-Principal Engineering Manager, ex-Tempo.fit (San Francisco). Mohamed employs and operates distributed Egyptian teams for international companies: payroll, equipment, events, and everything between. RowBranch is that operation, productized.

FAQ

Questions founders actually ask

Who legally employs my team members?

RowBranch's Egyptian entity acts as the legal Employer of Record: we hold the employment contracts and are responsible for payroll, income-tax withholding, and social insurance under Egyptian labor law. You direct the day-to-day work — formalized in our service agreement.

Do I need any legal presence in Egypt?

No — that's the point. You contract with us in USD; we handle everything local. If you later want your own entity, we help you transition the team cleanly.

How do payments work?

One monthly USD invoice: salaries and statutory costs passed through at actual (with documentation), plus our per-person fee. Funds are received before payroll is run — always.

What about compliance and termination risk?

Egyptian employment (Labour Law 14/2025) has real rules on notice and severance. We structure contracts correctly from day one and walk you through obligations before every hire and exit — no surprises.

We use contractors — is that risky?

It can be. If a contractor works full-time, exclusively, under your direction, Egyptian law may treat them as an employee (misclassification) — with back-dated social insurance and severance exposure. We tell you honestly which side of the line each role falls on, and when it's time, we convert contractors to compliant employees with no disruption.

Can we give our team private health insurance?

Statutory health coverage is already included in the social insurance we file. On top of that, we can arrange private medical insurance for your team on request — as the legal employer we can access group plans that small teams can't get on their own.

How are work expenses and business travel handled?

Your team submits receipts; we reimburse them locally in EGP within days, and the amounts appear on your monthly statement at actual cost, receipts attached. For business travel, we issue the employment and salary letters embassies require for visas, support the application, and manage ground transport through Uber for Business.

Can you also help us find talent?

Yes — we can source and vet Egyptian engineers and operations staff through our network, or simply employ people you've already found.

What's the minimum commitment?

Month-to-month per person, with notice aligned to Egyptian employment terms. No platform lock-in, no seat minimums.

ROWBRANCH · CAIRO

You steer. We row.

Tell us about the team you want in Egypt — or the one you already have. Concrete plan and price within a day.

hello@rowbranch.com    Book a 20-min call