# Outside IR35: Contractor Status Rules

> The Contractor Status Rules carries 1 published figure read from 1 source's own page, from 52 to 52 week, read 29 October 2026.

EOR Compass · https://eorcompass.com/datasets/contractor-status-rules/ · computed 2026-10-30

**Range of the published figures:** 52 to 52 week (range 52 to 52 week; 1 published figures; 2 of 6 sources read publish one).

2 of the 6 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 29 October 2026.

## By regime

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| regime a1-posted-worker | 52 week | 52 to 52 week | 1 |
| regime a1-posted-worker | 12 month | 12 to 12 month | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [GOV.UK A1 certificate (National Insurance when working abroad)](https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance-if-you-go-abroad) | 52 week | a1-posted-worker | 2026-10-29 |
| [European Commission posted workers](https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=471) | 12 month | a1-posted-worker | 2026-10-29 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (2)

- [GOV.UK A1 certificate (National Insurance when working abroad)](https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance-if-you-go-abroad), read 2026-10-29: "You need to pay National Insurance in the UK for the first 52 weeks of working abroad if you meet all of the following conditions:"
- [European Commission posted workers](https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=471), read 2026-10-29: "allowances or reimbursement of expenditure to cover travel, board and lodging expenses for workers away from home for professional reasons. A new provision on long-term posting provides that where the effective duration of posting exceeds 12 months (or 18 months in case a motivated notification is submitted), all the host Member State’s applicable terms and conditions of employment, laid down by l"

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [HMRC off-payroll working (IR35)](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/understanding-off-payroll-working-ir35), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [HMRC Check Employment Status for Tax](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-employment-status-for-tax), read 2026-10-08: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [IRS independent contractor or employee](https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee), read 2026-09-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US DOL employee or independent contractor classification](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/misclassification), read 2026-10-29: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 6 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 4 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in week (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 1 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per regime (UK off-payroll, US 1099 and the DOL economic-reality test, the A1 posted-worker certificate) per rule and threshold, quoted verbatim with the effective date; the checker's verdict table is generated from it; changed-since

## Sources

- [HMRC off-payroll working (IR35)](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/understanding-off-payroll-working-ir35) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HMRC Check Employment Status for Tax](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-employment-status-for-tax) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [IRS independent contractor or employee](https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US DOL employee or independent contractor classification](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/misclassification) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK A1 certificate (National Insurance when working abroad)](https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance-if-you-go-abroad) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [European Commission posted workers](https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=471) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The Contractor Status Rules carries 1 published figure read from 1 source's own page, from 52 to 52 week, read 29 October 2026.
- 2 of the 6 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 29 October 2026.
- Contractor Status Rules, regime a1-posted-worker: median 52 week across 1 source, read 29 October 2026.
- Contractor Status Rules, regime a1-posted-worker: median 12 month across 1 source, read 29 October 2026.

Cite as: "EOR Compass Contractor Status Rules", updated 2026-10-30, https://eorcompass.com/datasets/contractor-status-rules/.

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