Country Information
Spain
Min. wage
(x14 payments)
€1,184 /mo
About the minimum wage
Employer tax
~32.1%
Understand employer tax
Annual leave
22 days
Learn about annual leave
Notice period
15 days min
Termination and notice info
Updated
Nov 2026
Default. No end date, full employee protections apply
Only for justified circunstances (e.g. maternity cover).
Overtime minimized by law
No notice during probation
Paid July & December
Job titles such as CEO or CFO cannot be hired under the EOR model in Spain
Social security covering health, pension, unemployment, accident insurance, and professional training
Social security, capped at €4,909.50/mo. Income tax rate 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:
Provides employees compensation and benefits for work-related injuries or illnesses.
Employees who are terminated without just cause are entitled to receive severance pay, which is calculated based on their length of service and salary.
Also referred to as “aguinaldo”, the 13th salary is mandatory. It is tipically paid in 2 installments, in June and December.
P.S. our team speaks multiple languages and we'd love to chat in your preferred language if requested.
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.
