Jordan
Employ in Jordan without an entity.
A contract under Jordan's Labour Law, pay in dinars, and social security and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Jordan.
Paid in dinars, every month.
A 48-hour week.
Eight hours a day, with Friday the weekly rest day unless the work needs another.
Income tax from 5% to 30%.
Withheld by the employer.
Social security through the SSC.
Explained below.
What employing in Jordan involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written in Arabic, in two copies. An employee who is not Arab also gets a copy in another language.
- A fixed-term contract that carries on past its end becomes open-ended.
- Trial period: up to 3 months, ended without notice or end-of-service pay.
- SSCSocial security
Old age, disability and death, and unemployment, from the employer and the employee. Work injury and maternity, from the employer alone.
- 14.25% from the employer and 7.5% from the employee.
- Income tax
Withheld by the employer.
- 5% on the first JD 5,000 of taxable income, then 10%, 15% and 20% on each JD 5,000 after.
- 25% up to JD 1 million, and 30% above it.
- Exemptions of JD 9,000 for the employee and JD 9,000 for dependants.
- A further 1% national contribution on taxable income above JD 200,000.
- Leave
14 days of annual leave, rising to 21 after five years with the same employer.
- Sick leave: 14 days on full pay, and 14 more if the employee is in hospital.
- Maternity leave: 10 weeks on full pay, paid through the SSC's maternity insurance.
- Paternity leave: 3 days.
- Ending employment
One month's notice, in writing.
- End-of-service pay of a month's wage per year of service applies only to employees outside the SSC. Those inside it receive its benefits instead.
- A dismissal ruled arbitrary costs half a month's wage per year of service, at least two months.
Hiring in Jordan, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in dinars.
The contract is put in place
Under Jordan's Labour Law, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In dinars, with social security and income tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Jordan
Does end-of-service pay apply in Jordan?
Under Article 32 of Jordan's Labour Law, end-of-service pay is one month's wage for each year of service, but only for employees not covered by the Social Security Corporation. Employees covered by the SSC receive its benefits instead. Notice is one month, in writing. A dismissal found arbitrary costs half a month's wage per year of service, and at least two months' wages.
Which day is the weekly rest day?
Can we employ a foreign national?
Employing in Jordan, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
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