Cameroon
Employ in Cameroon without an entity.
A contract under Cameroon's labour code, pay in CFA francs, and social security and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Cameroon.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
A 40-hour week.
With at least 24 hours of rest each week, in principle on Sunday.
Pensions at 8.4% of pay.
Split evenly between employer and employee, on pay up to XAF 750,000 a month.
A monthly minimum wage.
XAF 60,000 in most sectors, with lower rates in agriculture and for State employees.
What employing in Cameroon involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written for a fixed term over three months, a trial period, and any contract that relocates the employee.
- A fixed term runs up to two years, and for a Cameroonian employee is renewable once before it becomes open-ended.
- Trial period: in writing, up to six months including renewal, or eight for managers.
- CNPSSocial security
Family benefits, pensions and work injury, on pay up to XAF 750,000 a month for family benefits and pensions.
- Pensions: 4.2% from the employer and 4.2% from the employee.
- Family benefits, from the employer: 7% in the general scheme, 5.65% in agriculture and 3.7% in private education.
- Work injury: 1.75%, 2.5% or 5% by risk, from the employer.
- IRPPIncome tax
Withheld by the employer each month, after a 30% deduction for professional expenses. Paid by the 15th of the next month.
- Bands from 10% to 35% of annual taxable pay.
- A council surcharge of 10% is added to the tax.
- Housing and employment funds
The Crédit Foncier housing fund takes 1% of salary from the employee and 1.5% from the employer.
- The National Employment Fund takes 1% from the employer.
- Leave
A working day and a half a month, with two more days for every five years' service.
- Sickness: the contract is suspended for up to six months.
- Maternity leave: 14 weeks, from four weeks before the expected birth, on a daily allowance equal to the wage from the CNPS.
- Ending employment
Notice in writing with the reason, its length set by order for each category and length of service.
- Severance, after two years: 20% of a month's pay for each of the first five years, rising in steps to 40% after twenty years.
Hiring in Cameroon, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Cameroon's labour code, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In CFA francs, with social security and income tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Cameroon
What does it take to employ a foreign national in Cameroon?
In Cameroon, a foreign employee's contract needs the Labour Minister's visa before work starts. The employer applies for it. A refused visa makes the contract void. No answer within two months counts as approval. Each renewal needs a visa too.
What does an employer pay into social security?
Is there a minimum wage?
Employing in Cameroon, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Cameroon: the contract visa, the contract and a salary worked through, step by step
How you hire in Cameroon without an entity of your own: the visa on a foreign national's contract step by step, moving someone already in Cameroon, who a role is open to, the contract, the employee test, what a salary costs and pays, leave, and ending employment.
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