Hidden Gems
Belize
Min. wage
(x12 payments)
BZD 5.00 /hr
About the minimum wage
Employer tax
Annual leave
14 days
Learn about annual leave
Notice period
1 week min
Termination and notice info
Updated
Oct 2026
Standard form of employment; terminable with statutory notice scaling from 1 to 8 weeks with tenure
Permitted for temporary or project-based work; ends automatically without severance if the term is genuine.
Hours beyond 9/day or 45/week paid at 150%, rising to 200% on public holidays and rest days
First 2 weeks probationary by default; written contracts commonly agree 3-6 months
No statutory 13th salary, and year-end bonuses are discretionary/sector-specific rather than broadly customary; any bonus is contractual.
Public service roles and licensed professions requiring local registration cannot be hired under the EOR model
5.5% of insurable earnings (capped at BZD 520/week) to the Social Security Board, covering pensions, sickness, maternity, invalidity, survivors' and employment-injury benefits
4.5% of insurable earnings, capped at BZD 520/week. Income tax (flat 25% above the annual allowance) varies by personal situation.
In addition to statutory leave, employees are entitled to the following statutory benefits:
Employers are required to make contributions to social security programs on behalf of their employees. Benefits derived from social security are:
Workplace injuries and occupational diseases are covered through the employment-injury branch of the Social Security Board, funded from the employer's contribution.
Severance pay applies after 5 years of continuous service: 1 week's wages per year of service for 5-10 years and 2 weeks' wages per year for more than 10 years, payable on redundancy or dismissal without good cause.
Belize does not mandate a 13th-month salary. Many employers pay a discretionary Christmas bonus at year-end, but it remains customary rather than statutory.
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Your employee's hours, time off, holidays, bonuses, and commissions are automatically calculated into payroll. RemoFirst will invoice you in either US Dollars (USD), Euros (EUR), British Pounds (GBP), Canadian Dollars (CAD), Australian Dollars (AUD), or Singapore Dollars (SGD) around the 15th of each month to make sure your employees are paid on time. To make it even easier, you can summarize your entire global team's salaries to aggregate them into one payment (instead of many individual payments).
Unlike full-time employees, contractors work on projects with multiple companies at a given time and are technically self-employed. Full-time employees are solely focused on their employer and usually receive benefits (such as health insurance, equity or stock options, and time off) as an additional form of compensation. While it can be cheaper to work with international contractors instead of paying benefits to a full-time employee, you run the risk of misclassification. It's recommended to work with an EOR for contractor onboarding and payments, so you can know that your international contractors are paid compliantly and on time.
Whenever the employee or employer has a question about, or anything else related to international employment, they can speak with our customer support team to get answers from our team of experts.
