Employer of Record in Qatar: what one employee really costs

Questions people ask before booking a demo

How much does an employer of record cost in Qatar?

For one expatriate employee at US$60,000 gross a year, the only statutory employer charge is the end-of-service gratuity: three weeks of basic wage for each year of employment, which is 5.77% of basic pay, or about 2.88% of the whole package where basic pay is half of it. That is roughly US$144 a month, so the employer cost before any provider fee is at least about US$5,144 a month. Published employer-of-record fees then run from US$199 to US$699 per employee per month, which puts the all-in cost between about US$5,340 and US$5,840 a month. Mandatory health cover, workmen's compensation and visa costs sit outside that figure because they are amounts per head.

Do employers pay social security in Qatar?

Not for a foreign employee. Law No. 24 of 2002 on Retirement and Pensions applies to Qatari employees under the Civil Service Law and to Qatari public servants, and the beneficiary it defines throughout is the Qatari beneficiary. Deel's Qatar page, read on 20 September 2026, describes the same boundary from the employer's side: social security at 14% of basic salary and housing allowance for Qatari and GCC nationals only. For the expatriate an employer of record normally places, the end-of-service gratuity is the whole of the statutory employer cost.

How is end-of-service gratuity calculated in Qatar?

Article 54 of the Labour Law sets a floor of three weeks' pay for every year of employment, owed once the worker has completed one year, with fractions of a year paid in proportion. The article states the floor in Remuneration, which includes allowances, and then says the last Basic Wage is the basis of the calculation, which excludes them. This page follows the calculation sentence and applies 5.77% to basic pay, and flags the ambiguity because it is worth a written answer in a contract: on a package split evenly between basic pay and allowances, the two readings differ by a factor of two.

How much annual leave and how many public holidays does Qatar require?

Article 79 gives a worker who has completed a continuous year at least three weeks of paid annual leave, rising to at least four weeks from five years of service, with fractions of a year in proportion. Article 78 adds paid public holidays: three working days for Eid al-Fitr, three for Eid al-Adha, one for Independence Day and three more set by the employer, ten in all. Article 81 forbids waiving annual leave or taking cash for it during service, though untaken days are paid out when the contract ends.

What is the minimum wage in Qatar?

Qatar's statutory minimum is structured rather than a single figure: QAR 1,000 a month of basic pay, QAR 500 for housing and QAR 300 for food, as Deel's Qatar hiring page sets it out. That structure is useful well above the minimum, because it is the only official split of a Qatari package into basic pay and allowances, and the split is what decides the end-of-service gratuity. At the minimum, basic pay is 56% of the package; this page models a professional salary at 50% and therefore publishes a floor.