The three parts behave differently
Statutory items are the closest to fixed: they come from government requirements, so two honest quotes should show similar figures there. If they differ wildly, that is a question to ask, not a discount to celebrate. One common confusion: the annual foreign-worker levy isn’t a fee to leave off the sheet — Immigration bundles it into the approval and PLKS-extension payment, so it belongs in the statutory bucket, not zero.
The agency service fee is the opposite. Research into the licensing framework found no official ceiling on what an agency may charge a household for its service, so this component is where quotes legitimately vary — and where a like-for-like written comparison matters most.
Compare written line items, not headline totals
A single total hides which part is doing the work. Ask each agency to itemise the statutory costs, the salary basis and its own service fee separately, in writing, so you are comparing the same lines rather than one number against another.
The full first-year cost breakdown is on the cost hub; this read is about how to interpret what you are handed. When a figure is missing or vague, treat the gap itself as the thing to clarify before paying.