Hire and pay employees in
Lithuania, hassle-free
With Deel, your business can easily hire employees in Lithuania. 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 Lithuania is 2 days with Deel.
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Devise
Euro (EUR)

Capitale
Vilnius
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Langue officielle
Lithuanian
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Cycle de paie
Mensuel
Onboard, pay and manage employees in Lithuania with Deel.
Usually, to hire in Lithuania, 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.
Deel lets you hire employees in Lithuania quickly, easily, and compliantly. We even automate tax document collection, payroll, benefits, and more. For your existing direct employees, we can manage your entire payroll operation from end-to-end.
All the necessary benefits for Lithuania
built right in
Deel allows you to provide localized benefits for employees in Lithuania within minutes. All in one manageable online dashboard.
- Pension Insurance
- Assurance maladie publique
- Sécurité sociale
- State Guarantee Fund
- Assurance-chômage
- Workplace Accident Insurance
- Private Healthcare - Unisure (optional)
- Couverture santé privée - Allianz (facultatif)
- Assurance vie mondiale - Allianz
Our quickstart guide to hiring in Lithuania
Navigate the tabs below to learn everything you need to know about hiring an employee in Lithuania
Exigences relatives au salaire minimum
Impôt sur le revenu des particuliers
Coût de la paie
- Unemployment social security - 1.31%
- Payments to fund - 0.16%
- Contribution to the long-term employment fund - 0.16%
- Social insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases - 0.14%
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 eight hours per day, 40 hours per week. The standard workweek is from Monday to Friday.
Congé maternité
In the event of birth complications or multiple births, the employee can extend leave for an additional 14 paid days.
Congé paternité
Conditions to be eligible for paid paternity leave:
- An employee that has been ensured
- An employee that has been granted a paternity leave according to the procedure established by law
- Employees who, over the last 24 months before the first day of paternity leave, have got not less than 12 months of the social insurance record
Congé parental
It is calculated in relation to earnings and depends on the time scale chosen:
- Employee insured elects to receive an allowance up until the child is one year old - 77.58% of the salary
- Employee elects to receive an allowance up until the child is two years old - 54.31% of salary for the first year, and 31.03% of the salary for the second year
- In the event of multiple births, the allowance varies with the number of children born, but the maximum is 77.58% of the salary
During the adoption of a child, childcare benefit is paid 12 or 24 months, optionally, regardless of the age of the adopted child and until the child reaches the age of 18. The amount is 77.58% of the salary if the benefit is received for one year and 54.31% for two years.
The State Social Insurance Fund Board will be responsible for this pay.
Congés maladie
Leave taken to attend to a sick family member or child is paid from the first day onwards. Employees receive 65.94% of their salary during this leave. State Social Insurance Fund Board is responsible for this payment.
Employees qualify for sickness benefits if they:
- Become temporarily incapacitated
- Are covered for sickness through social insurance
- Are absent from work and loses earnings because of illness
- Are insured and have a sickness social insurance record of at least three months in the previous 12 months, or six months in the previous 24 months
- Do not have the required sickness social insurance record because of studying up to the age of 26 or being in professional military service or a statutory civil servant
- Have submitted an application for benefits to the regional State Social Insurance Fund Board office not later than 12 months after the end of the illness
Conditions de départ
Un licenciement doit respecter des règles complexes et la procédure officielle du pays où travaille la personne concernée. Les conditions du départ sont toujours gérées par l’employeur avec les principales parties prenantes. La procédure peut inclure des frais ponctuels et certaines mesures (obligatoires ou recommandées) dans des cas spécifiques de licenciement.
Pour être conforme, la rupture d’un contrat de travail doit être motivée par :
- Du fait de l’employé
- D’un commun accord
- Unilaterally by the employer based on valid reasons or without any reason
Probation period
Objective grounds
Disciplinary dismissal
Performance due to unsuitability for the job
Job function become superfluous due to change in organization structure
Période de préavis
Notice will depend on the reason for termination and length of employment.
Termination of employment at the initiative of an employer through no fault of an employee:
- Standard notice: one month of notice period
- Less than one year of employment: two weeks notice
- Above notice periods are multiplied by three for:
Employees raising a minor (also adopted) under the age of 14
Employees raising a disabled child under the age of 18
Disabled employees
Employees who will be entitled to a retirement pension in two years
- Notice period of three days given to the employee
- Pregnant women, employees who are on maternity, paternity, or childcare leave cannot be dismissed on this legal basis
Termination of an employment contract on the initiative of the employee without a valid reason:
Employee has to submit a written resignation with notice of minimum of 20 days
Termination of an employment contract on the initiative of the employee for valid reasons:
- Employee cannot set a shorter notice period for the employer
- The Labor Code enables the employer and the employee to agree that the employee will not work during the notice period, but will be paid for the entire notice period
Indemnités de départ des employés
Termination of employment at the initiative of an employer through no fault of an employee:
- If the length of employment is above one year - two average monthly salaries
- If the length of employment is less than one year - 0.5 average monthly salary
- Additionally, the dismissed employee receives severance pay from a special state fund. The amount depends on the continuous duration of employment
Termination of an employment contract at the will of the employer:
- Minimum six average monthly salaries
Termination of an employment contract on the initiative of the employee for valid reasons:
- If the length of employment is above one year - two times the average remuneration
- If the length of employment is less than one year - one average remuneration
Pour vous prémunir des risques financiers imprévus liés à un licenciement, Deel prévoit un cumul d’indemnités de départ dans tous les contrats de travail pour ce pays. Deel possède une grande expérience de la gestion des risques de litige à l’international, et nous calculons le cumul d’indemnités de départ en fonction du droit commun ou des dispositions légales et des meilleures pratiques locales. Si votre employé démissionne ou n’a pas droit à une indemnité de départ, les montants réservés en vertu du contrat et inutilisés vous sont remboursés.
Congés payés
For the first year of employment, all annual leaves are normally granted after at least half of the number of working days per working year. At the request of an employee, less than six months of uninterrupted work shall be granted annual leave for:
1) Pregnant workers before or after maternity leave
2) Employees during their child's maternity leave, before or after paternity leave
3) With the permission of the employer
Jours fériés
Lithuania celebrates 15 national holidays. National public holidays include:
- Jour de l’An
- Day of Restoration of the Lithuanian State
- Lithuanian Independence Restoration Day
- Dimanche de Pâques
- Lundi de Pâques
- Fête du Travail
- Mother's Day
- Father's Day
- St. John’s day
- Statehood day
- Assomption
- Toussaint
- All Souls Day
- Christmas Eve
- Noël
Onboarding
Termes du contrat de travail
A contract must include:
- Nom
- Date de début
- Durée de l’emploi
- Période d’essai
- Working hours
- Annual leave
- Description du poste
- Conditions de rupture de contrat
Contract Backdating is not allowed.
Période d’essai
Probation periods help an employer and the employee ensure they're a hiring match, allowing a company to quickly decide if it's a fit or the employee to see if the job aligns with their career goals.
Hiring in Lithuania, hassle-free
With Deel, your business can easily hire employees in Lithuania 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 Lithuania and 150+ countries.
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