Niger
Employ in Niger without an entity.
A contract under Niger's labour code, pay in CFA francs, and social security and salary tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Niger.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
A 40-hour week.
With 24 hours of rest each week.
30 days of annual leave.
Two and a half days a month.
Salary tax from 1% to 35%.
On a monthly scale, worked out each month.
What employing in Niger involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written for a fixed term, any foreign employee and any trial period.
- A fixed term with a set end runs up to two years, renewable once, and cannot fill a permanent post.
- Trial period: up to six months on an open-ended contract, or a year if hired from outside Niger.
- CNSSSocial security
Family and maternity benefits, work injury and pensions, on pay up to XOF 6,000,000 a year.
- 16.4% from the employer and 5.25% from the employee.
- The employer also pays the employment agency's contribution, which the CNSS collects.
- ITSSalary tax
Worked out each month, on the scale in force from 1 January 2026.
- From 1% on the first XOF 25,000 a month to 35% above XOF 1,000,000.
- Leave
Two and a half days a month, 30 a year, with more after twenty years.
- Sick leave: the contract is suspended for up to six months, with full pay for the notice period.
- Maternity leave: 14 weeks, with half the salary paid by the CNSS.
- Ending employment
Notice in writing, for a period the interprofessional collective agreement sets by category.
- Severance, after a year: 20% of a month's pay for each of the first five years, 30% for the next five, then 35%.
- An economic dismissal adds a month's gross pay.
Hiring in Niger, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Niger's labour code, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In CFA francs, with social security and salary tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Niger
What does an employer pay into social security in Niger?
Employers in Niger pay 16.4% of pay to the CNSS: 8.4% for family and maternity benefits, 1.75% for work injury and 6.25% for pensions. Employees pay 5.25% for pensions. Contributions are due on pay up to XOF 6,000,000 a year. Employers also pay the employment agency's contribution, which the CNSS collects with them.
Can we employ a foreign national?
What changed in salary tax for 2026?
Employing in Niger, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Niger: the contract visa, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
How you hire in Niger without an entity of your own: the visa on a foreign national's contract step by step, moving someone already in Niger, who a role is open to, the contract, the employee test, what comes off pay, leave, and what changed this year.
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