The New State Registration Triage

We are hiring someone in a state where we have no presence: [THE STATE, THE ROLE AND SALARY, REMOTE OR ONSITE, WHAT WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE HASSLE, OUR PAYROLL PROVIDER]. Triage it: the registrations actually required (payroll tax, unemployment, workers comp, possibly foreign qualification), what the payroll provider handles versus what they silently leave to us, the local labor-law surprises (pay transparency in postings, payout of accrued PTO, state-specific posters), the real cost per year beyond salary, and the decision frame: when one remote employee is not worth the state.