Easily manage employment in Iceland
Iceland
Make employment in Iceland easy. Let us handle payroll, benefits, taxes, compliance, and even stock options for your team in Iceland, all in one easy-to-use platform.
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- Capital City
Reykjavík
- Currency
Icelandic krona (kr, ISK)
- Languages
Icelandic
- Population size
364,134
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Taxes in Iceland
Learn how employment taxes and statutory fees affect your payroll and your employees’ paychecks in Iceland.
11.50% | Mandatory Pension Fund |
2.00% | Supplementary (optional) Pension Fund (the employee can elect to supplement their pension by either 2% or 4%, and the employer then is obliged to match this with 2% in either case) |
6.10% | Social security contribution (this contribution is calculation on the Gross pay + Mandatory Pension Fund + Supplementary Pension fund amounts) |
1.55% | Union fee |
0.10% | Rehabilitation Fund |
10.17% | Holiday Allowance - once annually (this value is a minimum 10.17% of annual gross pay and can go up to 13.04% of annual gross pay, depending on the employees tenure with the employer) |