Fees and service charges
Filings for even one employee, without an advisory retainer.
Businesses already enrolled in social and employment insurance can commission onboarding, offboarding or dependent-change filings as needed. We also handle initial business enrollment. We quote after checking the number of people, filing types and available documents.
Monthly payroll can be commissioned on its own.
You can outsource monthly payroll without an advisory retainer. We confirm headcount, cutoff and payment dates, pay arrangements and attendance-data handover, then quote initial and monthly fees. Insurance filings and ongoing labor advice are quoted as a separate scope if required.
Individual quotation
Discuss payroll onlyAn external HR service for small businesses with around 1–10 employees. Using freee HR and LINE clock-in, we handle payroll, routine procedures and day-to-day labor advice.
Outsourced HR Department Service
- Monthly fee · Payroll recipients 1
- ¥16,500 (tax included)
- Initial setup fee · Standard setup
- ¥55,000 (tax included)
- (The fee may be waived under an advisory contract for a specified period.)
- For a new implementation without data migration, using standard payroll and attendance arrangements.
- Initial setup fee · Workflow design and migration
- from ¥88,000 (tax included)
- For existing data migration or complex allowances, work patterns or approval workflows.
The monthly fee includes freee HR Standard and LINE clock-in. freee Accounting and other freee products are excluded.
Two setup options to suit your current operations
Standard setup
- Basic freee configuration, including permissions and social insurance information
- Employee registration
- Standard allowances and commuting expenses
- LINE clock-in setup
- First payroll calculation and basic operation guidance
Workflow design and migration
- Standard setup services
- Existing data migration
- Pay structure, allowances, deductions and work-pattern configuration
- Operating and approval workflow design
- Initial payroll testing and calculation
Before work begins, we confirm the scope and provide a written quote showing monthly fees, setup fees and separately charged services together.
| Payroll recipients | Monthly fee |
|---|---|
| 1 | ¥16,500 |
| 2 | ¥22,000 |
| 3 | ¥33,000 |
| 4 | ¥44,000 |
| 5 | ¥44,000 |
| 6 | ¥55,000 |
| 7 | ¥55,000 |
| 8 | ¥55,000 |
| 9 | ¥55,000 |
| 10 | ¥55,000 |
| 11+ | ¥55,000 + (Payroll recipients − 10) × ¥3,300 |
Add ¥3,300 per month for each recipient above 10 (tax included)
We handle
- Payroll calculation
- Routine social and employment insurance procedures
- Day-to-day labor consultations
- Advice and review of hiring terms and job postings
- Basic explanations in Chinese
- Basic foreign-employment and residence status advice (included in the HR retainer)
- freee setup and ongoing operation support (initial setup is separately charged)
Your company handles
- Attendance review, corrections and finalization
- Final approval of payroll results
- Providing personnel change information
- Required internal approvals
Separate fees
- Initial social insurance registration
- Establishing labor and employment insurance coverage
- Residence status applications
- Year-end tax adjustment
- Full recruitment process outsourcing
- Specialist translation and extended interpreting
Your company reviews and finalizes attendance records and gives final approval of payroll results.
Social insurance information setup does not include initial registration applications. Residence status applications require a separate administrative scrivener contract. Year-end tax adjustment is available for a separate fee; tax judgments and tax advice, such as on dependent deductions, are referred to a tax accountant.
Headcount means payroll recipients. For 1–10 recipients, the table shows the total monthly fee for each headcount; for 11 or more, add ¥3,300 per month (tax included) for each recipient above 10.
Initial setup has two options: standard setup, or workflow design and migration. We confirm the scope and provide a written quote before work begins. Initial insurance registration applications are excluded from system setup.
Compare implementation support from freee HR
freee HR also offers implementation support from initial setup. Contact the freee pre-sales team directly to confirm support scope, eligible plans, fees and a quote.
Yotsuba supports you beyond initial setup, continuing with payroll, routine procedures and day-to-day labor advice. Compare the scope and costs, including support directly from freee, before choosing.
Ask freee HR about setup and a quote (corporations only; Japanese)Included in the monthly fee
- Ongoing freee HR operation support (initial setup is separately charged)
- freee HR Standard, LINE clock-in and online payslips
- Monthly payroll, payslips and social insurance rate updates
- Routine labor and employee-response consultations
- Insurance enrollment, loss of eligibility and dependent changes
- Monthly remuneration changes, bonus payment reports, annual remuneration assessment and annual labor insurance renewal
- Basic foreign-employment and residence status consultations, insurance checks and post-hire labor matters
- Basic Chinese consultations and payroll, insurance and onboarding explanations
- Advice on job postings, hiring and pay terms; reviews of employment contracts and working-condition notices
Excluded from the monthly fee
- freee Accounting and other freee products
- Initial social, labor and employment insurance registration and initial labor setup for a new company
- Attendance aggregation, time-entry corrections, missed-entry checks, overtime aggregation and paid-leave balance management
- Year-end tax adjustment and residence status applications
- Full recruitment process outsourcing, specialist translation and extended interpreting
- Disputes, large-scale staff entries/exits and corrections to past payroll
Recruitment and labor support
+from ¥22,000 (tax included)
Recruitment plans, new or revised job postings, hiring workflow design, regular meetings and employment-terms design documents.
The monthly plan covers advice and reviews. Creation and operation are optional services. Full RPO requires a separate quote and advance agreement on scope; job placement or referral is not included.
Fees and scope for initial insurance registration, year-end tax adjustment, full RPO and third or subsequent bonuses are discussed individually.
Consultations (before an advisory contract)
- First consultation (up to 60 min)
- free (tax included)
- Second consultation onward (per hour)
- ¥11,000 (tax included)
Charged from the second consultation onward when no advisory contract follows. After contracting, consultations are covered by the advisory fee.
Resident tax procedures
- Resident tax: annual update of special collection amounts (per person / year)
- ¥550 (tax included)
- Resident tax: special-collection change report (per case)
- individual quote (tax included)
Workplace changes and closure
- Workplace change notifications (per case)
- ¥6,050 (tax included)
- Social insurance: full-loss report of covered workplace (per case)
- ¥11,550 (tax included)
- Employment insurance: workplace closure report (per case)
- ¥6,050 (tax included)
- Labor insurance: final premium declaration / termination (package)
- from ¥15,400 (tax included)
Benefit applications
- Injury and sickness allowance claim (per case)
- ¥15,400 (tax included)
- Maternity allowance claim (per case)
- ¥15,400 (tax included)
- Childcare leave benefits (per case)
- first ¥27,500 / thereafter from ¥6,600 (tax included)
Article 36 agreements
- Article 36 agreement: new drafting & filing (per workplace)
- ¥22,000 (tax included)
- With special clauses: new drafting & filing (per workplace)
- ¥27,500 (tax included)
- Article 36 agreement: annual renewal (per workplace)
- ¥11,000 (tax included)
- With special clauses: annual renewal (per workplace)
- ¥16,500 (tax included)
Per workplace, drafting and filing.
Rules and regulations
- Work rules: new drafting (package)
- ¥88,000–220,000 (varies by size and number of rules) (tax included)
- Work rules: revision (package)
- from ¥44,000 (tax included)
- Wage rules (per set)
- ¥49,800 (tax included)
- Childcare/caregiver leave rules (per set)
- ¥79,800 (tax included)
- Harassment prevention rules (per set)
- ¥11,000 (tax included)
- Company-housing rules (per set)
- ¥38,500 (tax included)
- Business-travel expense rules (per set)
- ¥59,800 (tax included)
For rules drafted by this office, amendments required by legal changes (revision of the affected articles and filing) are covered by the advisory fee, with no limit on frequency. Revisions at the company's own initiative are charged as "work rules: revision".
Additions, recruitment, inspections
- Treatment-improvement addition: wage-requirement design (per case)
- individual quote (tax included)
- Labor Standards Office inspection response (per case)
- ¥55,000–110,000 (tax included)
- Employee briefing session (per session)
- ¥55,000 (tax included)
- Support for electing an employee representative (—)
- free (tax included)
Subsidies
- Subsidy application (advisory clients only) (package)
- no upfront fee + success fee of 20% of the amount granted (tax included)
No upfront fee. No referral fees are paid or received.
External auditor (for supervising support organizations)
No advisory contract required; engaged directly by the supervising support organization.
- External auditor: appointment & periodic audits (per audit)
- individual quote (tax included)
- Accompanying on-site checks (per visit)
- included in the quote above (tax included)
We do not enter labor advisory contracts with parties related to a supervising support organization whose external auditor we serve as, and we do not serve as external auditor for an organization our existing advisory clients belong to.
Disability pension (individual clients)
No advisory contract required; engaged directly by the person or their family.
- Disability pension claim (new) (per case)
- ¥30,000 upfront + success fee of 3 months of pension (tax included)
- Disability pension claim (with retroactive claim) (per case)
- the above + 15% of the retroactive amount (tax included)
- Administrative costs (—)
- postage, medical certificates, and document fees are charged at cost (tax included)
Upfront and success fees are tax-inclusive. Out-of-pocket costs such as medical certificates are charged separately. Representing disability pension claims is the work of Certified Social Insurance and Labor Consultants.
Work this office does not handle
The following is not handled by this office. We will refer you to a qualified professional. No referral fees are paid or received.
- Tax judgments and tax advice in the year-end adjustment (dependent deductions, deemed rent, non-taxable limits) → a licensed tax accountant
- Changes to corporate registration → a judicial scrivener
- Disputes, such as contested reasons for leaving employment → an attorney
- Preparing residence-status application documents / application services → 四葉行政書士事務所 (a separate business entity; contracted separately)
- Preparing and filing treatment-improvement addition plans and reports → 四葉行政書士事務所 (same as above)
- Subsidy (hojokin) applications → 四葉行政書士事務所 (same as above)
- Preparing permit applications for supervising support organizations → 四葉行政書士事務所 (same as above)
* Yotsuba Real Estate Co., Ltd., 四葉行政書士事務所, and 四葉社会保険労務士事務所 are independent business entities and accept engagements separately. Contracts, fees, and billing are separate for each office, and engaging this office is never a condition for engaging another.
Frequently asked questions
Can I commission employee filings without an advisory retainer?
Yes. You can commission filings for one employee joining or leaving, dependent changes, or initial company insurance enrollment. We check the circumstances and required documents before quoting.
Can I commission only monthly payroll?
Yes. Ongoing payroll-only work is available without an advisory retainer. We confirm headcount, pay arrangements and attendance-data handover, then quote initial and monthly fees. Insurance filings or ongoing labor advice are quoted separately if added.
Is freee setup free?
Standard setup is ¥55,000 including tax. (The fee may be waived under an advisory contract for a specified period.) Setup with workflow design or data migration starts at ¥88,000 including tax. Payroll-only setup conditions and fees are quoted separately.
What does our company need to do?
Provide employee information and changes, review and finalize attendance, and give final payroll approval. We calculate, check and handle filings within the agreed scope.
What does the HR plan include?
Ongoing freee HR operation support (initial setup is separately charged) / freee HR Standard, LINE clock-in and online payslips / Monthly payroll, payslips and social insurance rate updates / Routine labor and employee-response consultations / Insurance enrollment, loss of eligibility and dependent changes / Monthly remuneration changes, bonus payment reports, annual remuneration assessment and annual labor insurance renewal / Basic foreign-employment and residence status consultations, insurance checks and post-hire labor matters / Basic Chinese consultations and payroll, insurance and onboarding explanations / Advice on job postings, hiring and pay terms; reviews of employment contracts and working-condition notices
How does the fee change with headcount?
Payroll recipients: 1: ¥16,500 / 2: ¥22,000 / 3: ¥33,000 / 4: ¥44,000 / 5: ¥44,000 / 6: ¥55,000 / 7: ¥55,000 / 8: ¥55,000 / 9: ¥55,000 / 10: ¥55,000 / 11+: ¥55,000 + (Payroll recipients − 10) × ¥3,300 (Monthly fee, tax included). Add ¥3,300 per month for each recipient above 10. Fees and scope for initial insurance registration, year-end tax adjustment, full RPO and third or subsequent bonuses are discussed individually.
What is the initial setup fee for?
Initial setup fee: Standard setup ¥55,000 (tax included). (The fee may be waived under an advisory contract for a specified period.) For a new implementation without data migration, using standard payroll and attendance arrangements. Basic freee configuration, including permissions and social insurance information / Employee registration / Standard allowances and commuting expenses / LINE clock-in setup / First payroll calculation and basic operation guidance. Workflow design and migration from ¥88,000 (tax included). For existing data migration or complex allowances, work patterns or approval workflows. Standard setup services / Existing data migration / Pay structure, allowances, deductions and work-pattern configuration / Operating and approval workflow design / Initial payroll testing and calculation. Before work begins, we confirm the scope and provide a written quote showing monthly fees, setup fees and separately charged services together. Initial setup has two options: standard setup, or workflow design and migration. We confirm the scope and provide a written quote before work begins. Initial insurance registration applications are excluded from system setup.
Can you approve attendance and payroll for us?
Your company reviews and finalizes attendance records and gives final approval of payroll results. Employees clock in through LINE. Your company reviews, corrects and finalizes attendance. We review the payroll calculated in freee, and your company gives final approval.
Is freee Accounting included?
The monthly fee includes freee HR Standard and LINE clock-in. freee Accounting and other freee products are excluded.
How much recruitment work is included?
The monthly plan covers advice and reviews. Creation and operation are optional services. Full RPO requires a separate quote and advance agreement on scope; job placement or referral is not included.
Do you support Chinese and other languages?
Basic management consultations, payroll and social insurance explanations, and onboarding explanations in Chinese are included. Basic guidance in other languages uses AI and translation assistance. Specialist translation and extended interpreting carry separate fees.
Are residence applications and year-end tax adjustment included?
Social insurance information setup does not include initial registration applications. Residence status applications require a separate administrative scrivener contract. Year-end tax adjustment is available for a separate fee; tax judgments and tax advice, such as on dependent deductions, are referred to a tax accountant.
Can group homes and disability-welfare providers use the service?
Support tailored to shifts, staffing, wage improvement and everyday labor management in disability welfare, care and group homes. We distinguish routine advice, payroll and procedures included in the monthly fee from separate work such as employment rules and wage-improvement design.
* All amounts include tax. Items marked "from" or "individual quote" vary in workload by case; a written individual quote is presented before contracting. Only fixed amounts are output as structured data (PriceSpecification).
This page provides general information. Individual matters are reviewed by a qualified professional.
Shall we start by reviewing how you work?
四葉社会保険労務士事務所 (Kohinata, Bunkyo-ku; a 5-minute walk from Myogadani Station on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line) helps you, starting with a review of your current labour practices.
LINE connects you directly to our representative, Joji Uramatsu. Messages are accepted 24/7 and answered in order.
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