Angola
Employ in Angola without an entity.
A contract under Angola's General Labour Law, pay in kwanzas, and social security and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Angola.
Paid in kwanzas, every month.
A minimum wage of AOA 100,000.
A month, and AOA 50,000 at micro companies and startups.
Employment rests on a contract.
The contract is the only way it is created.
Sick leave paid by the employer.
For up to six months, with a right to recover it from the INSS.
What employing in Angola involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
An employment relationship is created only by a contract. A fixed term needs a justified need.
- A fixed term is in writing, and is capped at 6, 12, 36 or 60 months, by the reason for it.
- Trial period on an open-ended contract: the first 60 days, extendable in writing to 120, or 180 for management roles.
- INSSSocial security
Contributions to the Instituto Nacional de Segurança Social, from employer and employee alike.
- 8% from the employer and 3% from the employee, on gross pay.
- IRTIncome tax
Withheld by the employer each month.
- Nothing on monthly taxable pay up to AOA 150,000, then bands from 16% to 25%.
- Meal and transport allowances are each exempt up to AOA 30,000 a month.
- Leave
Sick leave is paid by the employer for up to six months, with a right to recover it from the INSS.
- Annual leave: 22 working days a year.
- Maternity leave: three months.
- Paternity leave: a day at the birth, and seven unpaid working days more.
- Work visas
A foreign employee who is not resident needs a work visa, valid for the length of the contract.
- Non-resident foreign staff make up at most 30% of the workforce.
- Ending employment
30 days' written notice from an employee who resigns, and 30 days' notice of a dismissal for economic, technological or structural reasons.
- Compensation on that dismissal: a month's base salary for each year of service up to five, and 50% of it for each year after.
Hiring in Angola, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in kwanzas.
The contract is put in place
Under Angola's General Labour Law, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In kwanzas, with social security and income tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Angola
What is the minimum wage in Angola?
Angola's national minimum wage is AOA 100,000 a month, from September 2025. Micro companies and startups pay at least AOA 50,000. From September 2026, no authorisation to pay below the national minimum remains in force. A collective agreement can set a higher minimum.
Who pays during sick leave?
What visa does a foreign employee need?
Employing in Angola, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Angola: the work visa, the contract and a salary worked through, step by step
How you hire in Angola without an entity of your own: the work visa step by step, moving someone already in Angola, the contract, the employee test, what a salary costs and pays, leave, and what changed this year.
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