A regular Thai company needs four Thai staff for every foreigner it sponsors, which rules out most small firms. The employers worth your time are the ones that can hire foreigners without that limit, and the BOI publishes a searchable list of them.
Getting a job is a real challenge for expats. It’s getting harder because of the limits on how many foreign workers a company can hire. A regular Thai company needs four permanent Thai employees for every foreigner it hires, so a small company can usually only hire one or two foreigners.
But there are certain companies that are exempt from this rule. They can hire far more foreigners than the ratio would allow.
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