Hungary offers a skilled, cost-competitive Central European workforce and a simple, low employer contribution. All-in employer cost runs around 1.13x the gross salary. Here is what to know before your first Hungarian hire.
Employment runs under the Labour Code, with written contracts and mandatory registration. Since reforms, the employer side is dominated by a single social-contribution tax rather than multiple funds.
The main employer cost is the social contribution tax of 13% of gross salary, a single levy that replaced the older multi-fund system.
Hungary consolidated employer charges into one social-contribution tax, which keeps the employer side low and predictable.
Employees pay a flat 15% personal income tax plus their own social-security contributions, withheld at source. Withholding is the employer's responsibility, which under EOR means ours.
*All figures are estimates from public sources (2025-26), pending ops verification - same basis as the EOR cost calculator. Not tax or legal advice.
Compliant Hungarian employment contract, payroll, the social contribution tax, and benefits, handled. One invoice, flat $399 per month.