Côte d'Ivoire
Employ in Côte d'Ivoire without an entity.
A contract under Côte d'Ivoire's labour code, pay in CFA francs, and social security, health cover and training levies handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Côte d'Ivoire.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
Pensions at 14% of pay.
7.7% from the employer and 6.3% from the employee.
Universal health cover.
XOF 1,000 a person a month.
14 weeks' maternity leave.
On full salary, paid by the CNPS.
What employing in Côte d'Ivoire involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
A fixed term runs up to two years in all, renewals included.
- Trial period: from 8 days to 6 months by category, renewable once, under a 2024 decree.
- CNPSSocial security
The Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance Sociale.
- Pensions: 7.7% from the employer and 6.3% from the employee, on pay up to 45 times the SMIG, the minimum wage.
- Family benefits 5%, maternity 0.75% and work accidents 2% to 5%, from the employer, on pay up to XOF 70,000 a month.
- CMUHealth cover
Universal health cover, XOF 1,000 a person each month.
- The employer pays 50% of it for the employee, a spouse and up to six children.
- ITSSalary tax
Withheld by the employer each month, with a reduction for family.
- From 0% on the first XOF 75,000 a month to 32% above XOF 8,000,000.
- FDFPTraining levies
Apprenticeship tax of 0.4% and a continuing-training levy of 1.2% of pay.
- With the national contribution of 1.2%, taxes on a local employee's pay come to 2.8%.
- Leave
Maternity leave is 14 weeks, 6 before the birth and 8 after, on full salary paid by the CNPS.
- Annual leave: 2.2 working days for each month of service.
- Ending employment
Notice rises with category and service, from 8 days to 4 months.
- Dismissal indemnity, after a year: 30% of a month's pay for each of the first five years, 35% for the next five, then 40%.
Hiring in Côte d'Ivoire, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Côte d'Ivoire's labour code, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In CFA francs, with social security, health cover and training levies handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Côte d'Ivoire
What does an employer pay into social security in Côte d'Ivoire?
Employers in Côte d'Ivoire pay the CNPS 7.7% for pensions, with the employee paying 6.3%. Employers alone pay 5% for family benefits, 0.75% for maternity and 2% to 5% for work accidents, on pay up to XOF 70,000 a month. Universal health cover is XOF 1,000 a person a month. The employer pays 50% of it for the employee, a spouse and up to six children. Training levies add 1.6% of pay.
How long can a fixed-term contract run?
Who pays maternity leave?
Employing in Côte d'Ivoire, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Côte d'Ivoire: the visa on the contract, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
How you hire in Côte d'Ivoire without an entity of your own: the visa on a foreign employee's contract step by step, moving someone already in Côte d'Ivoire, who a role is open to, the contract, the employee test, what comes off pay each month, leave, and what changed this year.
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