Madagascar
Employ in Madagascar without an entity.
A contract under Madagascar's 2024 Labour Code, pay in ariary, and social security, occupational health and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Madagascar.
Paid in ariary, every month.
Wages are paid in legal tender.
A 40-hour week.
With 24 hours of rest each week, normally on Sunday.
30 calendar days of annual leave.
Two and a half days for each month worked.
A minimum wage of MGA 315,000.
A month, outside agriculture, from 1 October 2026.
What employing in Madagascar involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written at hiring, in two copies, in Malagasy or French.
- A fixed term runs from a month to two years, for work that is not permanent.
- Trial period: up to 6 months, agreed in writing, renewable once.
- CNaPSSocial security
The Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance Sociale.
- 13% from the employer and 1% from the employee, on pay up to MGA 2,520,000 a month outside agriculture, and MGA 2,560,000 in agriculture.
- OSTIEOccupational health
Compulsory membership of an occupational health service, such as OSTIE in Antananarivo.
- At OSTIE: 5% from the employer and 1% from the employee.
- FMFPTraining contribution
1% of pay from the employer, collected by the CNaPS.
- IRSAIncome tax
Withheld by the employer each month.
- Nothing up to MGA 350,000 a month, rising through 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% to 25% above MGA 4,000,000.
- Leave
Two and a half calendar days for each month worked, usable after twelve months.
- Sick leave: full pay from the employer for a month, or for the notice period if longer.
- Maternity leave: 14 weeks on full pay, half from the CNaPS and half from the employer.
- Paternity leave: 3 days, paid by the employer.
- Ending employment
Notice applies, for the length a decree sets unless a collective agreement gives more.
- On an economic dismissal: 10 days' pay for each completed year, capped at 6 months' pay.
Hiring in Madagascar, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in ariary.
The contract is put in place
Under Madagascar's Labour Code, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In ariary, with social security and income tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Madagascar
What does an employer pay into social security in Madagascar?
Employers in Madagascar pay 13% of pay to the CNaPS, and deduct 1% from the employee, on pay up to MGA 2,520,000 a month outside agriculture from October 2026. They pay a training contribution of 1% on the same pay. They also pay an occupational health service: at OSTIE in Antananarivo, 5% from the employer and 1% from the employee.
Which labour law applies?
Can we employ a foreign national?
Employing in Madagascar, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Madagascar: the work permit, the contract and a salary worked through, step by step
How you hire in Madagascar without an entity of your own: the work permit and visa step by step, moving someone already in Madagascar, the contract, the employee test, what a salary costs and pays, leave, and what changed this year.
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