Hire and pay employees in Denmark, hassle-free
With Deel, your business can easily hire employees in Denmark. No more worrying about local laws, complex tax systems, or managing international payroll. Deel takes care of everything in 150+ countries. The average onboarding time frame in the Denmark is 1 days with Deel.
Onboard, pay and manage employees in Denmark with Deel
Usually, to hire in Denmark, your business needs an entity. That means a local office, an address registered as a subsidiary, and an account with a local bank. All of this, plus navigating regional benefits, payroll, tax, and HR laws, can take months.
Now you can hire employees in Denmark quickly, easily, and compliantly. Automate tax document collection, payroll, benefits, and more. For your existing direct employees, we can manage your entire payroll operation from end-to-end.
Currency Danish Krone (DKK)
Capital Copenhagen
Official language Danish
Payroll cycle Monthly
All the necessary benefits for Denmark built right in
Deel allows you to provide localized benefits for employees in Denmark within minutes. All in one manageable online dashboard in a single HR platform.
- Indemnité de vacances
- Labor Market Supplementary
- Fonds de garantie salariale
- Assurance accident du travail
- Private pension
- healthcare
- dental
- life
- disability
- and critical illness insurance - Soderberg & Partners
- Couverture santé privée - Allianz (facultatif)
Our quickstart guide to hiring in Denmark
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Exigences relatives au salaire minimum
There are no provisions regarding the minimum salary stipulated in the law.
Impôt sur le revenu des particuliers
Income tax in Denmark is complex. The individual income tax ranges from 8% to 56.5%. Income tax is calculated according to progressive rates. Multiple additional factors may impact overall rates, such as the household status, the number of children, and the employee's location. Local, Church and state taxes may also apply.
| Revenu annuel brut | Taux d’imposition (%) |
|---|---|
| Up to DKK 50,761 | 8% |
| Up to DKK 544,800 | 42.83% |
| Over DKK 544,800 | 56.5% |
Coût de la paie
The employer cost is generally estimated at ~1% + fixed fees
Monthly costs
- AES (labour market insurance) - DKK 33
- ATP (Labour Market Supplementary Pension) - DKK 198
- Financing contribution (FIB) - DKK 47.58
- Compulsory occupational injury insurance - 273.60 kr
- Maternity contribution - DKK 112.50
- AUB (Education contribution) - DKK 267.75
- AFU (Labor Market Fund for Secondary Persons) - DKK 0.58
- Administration of holiday fund - DKK 10.20
- Administration of frozen holiday pay - DKK 1.58
- Compulsory Occupational Injury Insurance - DKK 273.60
Annual and conditional costs
- 5th Week Vacation - Salary for up to 5 days of vacation for employees with unused vacation by the end of the spending year
- Vacation and Holiday Allowance - Salary for the unused vacation, up to 12.5% of the employee's annual base salary, accrued monthly.
- Ferietillæg: approximately 1% of the employee’s salary, varying depending on bonuses allowances, commissions, variable payments, and time off taken during the period, paid in two annual instalments in May and August.
- Great Prayer Day Compensation Supplement: 0.45% of the employee's gross annual salary, including any allowances, and company pension contributions.
Mandatory for terminated employees with unused vacation and paid to Feriekonto.
Ces coûts sont des estimations et ne sont indiqués qu’à titre d’information. Pour comprendre le mode de calcul des coûts et frais inhérents aux termes d’un contrat de travail établi dans ce pays, n’hésitez pas à demander un devis à notre service commercial.
Rémunération des heures supplémentaires et nombre d’heures maximum
Standard working hours are 7.4 working hours per day, 37 working hours per week. The standard workweek is from Monday to Friday.
Hiring in Denmark, hassle-free
With Deel, your business can easily hire employees in Denmark with our EOR solution. If you have an entity, our Global Payroll solution takes care of payroll and compliance for your direct employees. Our 250+ in-house experts handle everything from managing local laws, complex tax systems, or your payroll in Denmark and 150+ countries.
Management fee
À partir de
$599
/mois
Estimated Employer Cost
~1% + fixed fees
of employee salary