Lowest Employer Social Security Contribution

All 38 OECD countries ranked. Data from OECD Taxing Wages 2024 and World Bank ICP.

Rank Country Employer Ssc Rate
1 🇨🇱 Chile N/A
2 🇨🇴 Colombia N/A
3 🇳🇿 New Zealand N/A
4 🇩🇰 Denmark N/A
5 🇱🇹 Lithuania N/A
6 🇮🇱 Israel N/A
7 🇦🇺 Australia N/A
8 🇮🇸 Iceland N/A
9 🇨🇭 Switzerland N/A
10 🇺🇸 United States N/A
11 🇨🇦 Canada N/A
12 🇲🇽 Mexico N/A
13 🇮🇪 Ireland N/A
14 🇰🇷 South Korea N/A
15 🇬🇧 United Kingdom N/A
16 🇳🇱 Netherlands N/A
17 🇭🇺 Hungary N/A
18 🇳🇴 Norway N/A
19 🇱🇺 Luxembourg N/A
20 🇯🇵 Japan N/A
21 🇸🇮 Slovenia N/A
22 🇵🇱 Poland N/A
23 🇹🇷 Turkey N/A
24 🇫🇮 Finland N/A
25 🇩🇪 Germany N/A
26 🇬🇷 Greece N/A
27 🇱🇻 Latvia N/A
28 🇵🇹 Portugal N/A
29 🇨🇷 Costa Rica N/A
30 🇧🇪 Belgium N/A
31 🇦🇹 Austria N/A
32 🇪🇸 Spain N/A
33 🇸🇪 Sweden N/A
34 🇮🇹 Italy N/A
35 🇸🇰 Slovakia N/A
36 🇨🇿 Czechia N/A
37 🇪🇪 Estonia N/A
38 🇫🇷 France N/A
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What This Ranking Actually Says About Global Pay

This ranking covers OECD countries with available data from the 2024 Taxing Wages release and the World Bank International Comparison Program.

This dimension is one of five that together describe how a country treats labor income — tax rates, wedge, VAT, employer cost, and PPP-adjusted take-home. No single metric is complete on its own; the rankings should be read alongside each other.

A high ranking on one dimension often masks a low ranking on another — a country may have a low effective income tax rate but a steep VAT or high employer social contributions that erode the real benefit. All 38 OECD members are covered here using the same 2024 Taxing Wages methodology, so the ranking is apples-to-apples and the spread of values genuinely reflects policy and structural differences rather than data noise. Click any country above to see the full tax and take-home breakdown at every salary level from $20K to $300K, or open the calculator to model a specific scenario against all 38 OECD economies at once.

Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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Data sourced from official OECD international salary and tax statistics. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainGlobalPay Editorial