Employer cost of hiring in Papua New Guinea

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Mandatory employer contributions in Papua New Guinea

Employer cost at three salary levels

The examples use 1×, 2× and 4× Papua New Guinea’s 2025 GDP per person in local currency (12,449 PGK, World Bank) as reference salaries. GDP per person is not a wage; it is a neutral, cited yardstick for low, middle and senior pay.

Worked example

For a salary of 24,900 PGK a year, the employer adds about 2,092 PGK (8.4%) in mandatory contributions, for a total of 26,992 PGK, about $6,547 at the 2025 average exchange rate. The rate is roughly flat across salaries (8.4% to 8.4%), so on-costs scale with pay.

What is not included

• Calculated on gross basic salary, excluding overtime, bonus and commission.

How to budget a hire in Papua New Guinea

1. Start from the gross salary you plan to offer in PGK.
2. Add the mandatory contributions above. The calculator applies caps and salary bands automatically.
3. Add benefits customary in Papua New Guinea (health cover, bonuses, extra month salaries) as a percentage in the calculator.
4. If you have no local entity, add an employer-of-record fee. Deel and Remote both list EOR from $599 per employee per month on their public pricing pages (checked 23 October 2026).
5. Convert to your budgeting currency with a current rate. The USD figures here use the World Bank 2025 average.

Compare Papua New Guinea with other countries in the any-country comparison, or see whether an EOR, contractor or own entity is cheaper.

Source: PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries: Papua New Guinea, other taxes, last reviewed 23 September 2026 (checked 23 October 2026). Exchange rate and GDP per capita: World Bank (2025, indicators PA.NUS.FCRF and NY.GDP.PCAP.CN). HireCost transcribes the rates; it does not invent or estimate missing ones.

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