Garoa is payroll, time & attendance, and eSocial compliance software your Brazilian subsidiary operates itself — full CLT depth on the ground, an English interface for headquarters. No SAP project, no black-box outsourcing.
Brazil's payroll rulebook — eSocial, the CLT, the 13th salary, FGTS — exists only in Portuguese. We write the English reference your finance and HR leadership can actually use, verified against official sources and updated every January.
How Brazil's mandatory digital payroll reporting actually works: who must file, the event families, the deadlines that surprise foreign employers, and the fines.
ReferenceAll 50 active events of layout S-1.3 — S-1000 to S-8299 — in English: what each one does, when it is due, and how they depend on each other.
Guide + calculatorWhy a R$ 10,000 salary costs ~1.62× that: INSS, FGTS, 13th salary and vacation accruals — the full 2026 math, line by line, in USD too.
Pillar guideThe real monthly cycle of a Brazilian payroll — closing to payment to eSocial to FGTS to DCTFWeb — written for companies running their own entity.
Decision guideThe 30-employee math: what EOR really costs in Brazil, where the crossover sits, and the step-by-step playbook for migrating to your own CNPJ.
Your team runs payroll in your own entity, with a real audit trail. HQ sees everything in English, in real time — not a PDF report at month-end.
Events, monthly closing, DCTFWeb and FGTS Digital are generated from the payroll itself — built in Brazil for Brazilian compliance, not adapted around it.
Time & attendance, shift schedules (12×36), night premiums, union rules — the operational half of CLT compliance that global platforms leave out.