Social security calculator
Our Social Security calculator is an Excel, which is made of different values, whom help us to understand how, calculate Social Security total cost for the employer.
This calculator is very simple to use introducing the annual salary you want to pay for your employee, the qualification framework level and the employee occupation. You obtain the monthly social security cost for the employer and employee and total social security of general type cost.
This calculator shows the approximately social security cost, for a more detailed study please do not hesitate to contact us.
OUR SOCIAL SECURITY CALCULATOR
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1. ITEMS FOR CALCULATE SOCIAL SECURITY COST FOR THE EMPLOYER
NUMBER OF EMPLOYES FOR JOB |
QUALIFICATION FRAMEWORK LEVEL |
ANUAL SALARY |
GROSS MONTHLY SALARY |
COMPLEMENTS/BONUSES |
PROPORTIONAL PART OF EXTRA PAYS |
DURATION OF CONTRACT |
WORKING TIME |
RETENTIONS(%) |
CONTRIBUTIONS, OCUPATIONAL DISEASE AND WORK ACCIDENTS (%) |
2. EUROPEAN QUALIFICATION FRAMEWORK LEVEL (EQF).
Minimum | Maximum | |||
Level 1: Engineers, licenciates and senior management personnel | 1.547,00 € | 4.070,10 € | ||
Level 2: Technical engineers, experts and qualified assistants | 1.282,80 € | 4.070,10 € | ||
Level 3: Administrative and Workshop Managers | 1.116,00 € | 4.070,10 € | ||
Level 4: No qualified assistants | 1.108,33 € | 4.070,10 € | ||
Level 5: Administrative officers | 1.108,33 € | 4.070,10 € | ||
Level 6: Subordinates | 1.108,33 € | 4.070,10 € | ||
Level 7: Administrative assistants | 1.108,33 € | 4.070,10 € | ||
*Minimum bases for first, second and third-line officers, laboreurs and workers over the age of 18: | ||||
Minimum diary bases in 2021: 37€ | ||||
Maximum diary bases in 2021: 135,67€ |
3. SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS
Employer | Employee | ||||
Contributions for common contingencies | 23,60% | 4,70% | |||
Contributions for professional contingencies | 2,50% | ||||
Contributions for unemployment general type | 5,50% | 1,55% | |||
*Contributions for unemployment in full-time limited duration contract | 6,70% | 1,60% | |||
*Contributions for unemployment in part-time limited duration contract | 6,70% | 1,60% | |||
Contributions for FOGASA | 0,20% | ||||
Contributions for Vocational training | 0,60% | 0,10% |
4. MOST COMMON WORK PLACES
IT | IMS | IT+IMS | |
Office staff (all sectors) | 1 | 1,05 | 2,05 |
Cleaning staff (all sectors) | 2,1 | 1,5 | 3,6 |
Security Staff (all sectors) | 1,4 | 2,2 | 3,6 |
Farming and livestock | 3,05 | 3,35 | 6,4 |
Fishery | 3,05 | 3,35 | 6,4 |
Mining & Drilling | 2,3 | 2,9 | 5,2 |
Manufacturing | 1,6 | 1,2 | 2,8 |
Construction | 3,35 | 3,35 | 6,7 |
Wholesale trade | 1,8 | 1,55 | 3,35 |
Retail trade | 0,95 | 0,7 | 1,65 |
Transport | 1,8 | 1,5 | 3,3 |
Hospitality Industry | 0,8 | 0,7 | 1,5 |
1.- Annual and monthly salary includes base salary and complements of worker such as transport bonus, seniority bonus and others.
2 – Qualification Framework level is very important because this value provide information about minimum and maximum bases for the social security contributions.
3 – Gross monthly salary is the value formed by annual salary divided in twelve months of year that help us to calculate the rest of values.
4 – Occupation is the value that show us work post of the employee that we calculate the total of social security cost and value to search the professional contingencies contributions. We are not included all the different business activities, which are hundreds but we have included the additional provision 4th (Ley 42/2006), where are located all the occupations. We have added a hyperlink so that be easier to calculate.

5 – Total monthly social security general type cost show us total monthly cost for employer and total cost for the employee.
7 – In “Most common work places” we put the most representative kinds of work places. We have chosen the mean values of 2,5% which is applicable in all kinds of sectors or jobs.
8 – This calculator is for no end-term contracts cost, but in limited duration contracts have different type of contribution.
To conclude, this calculator shows the approximately social security cost, for a more detailed study please do not hesitate to contact us.