Global Payroll Services in Kazakhstan

Already have a Kazakhstani LLP, or running payroll across several countries? We place you with a vetted Kazakhstani payroll partner who keeps income tax, pension, and social health insurance filings exactly right under the new 2026 Tax Code, while you stay the legal employer and we stay on your side.

  • Independent advice
  • Vetted partners
  • Multi-country ready

What running payroll in Kazakhstan involves

If you already employ people through your own Kazakhstani LLP, you stay the legal employer, but you still have to run payroll correctly every month: income tax and mandatory pension to the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund, social health insurance to the Social Health Insurance Fund, and social tax to the State Revenue Committee, three separate filings to three different bodies, all of which changed rate on 1 January 2026. This is where a specialist payroll partner earns its place: you keep the employment relationship, they keep the mechanics right across all of it.

01

You stay the employer

You stay the legal employer of your Kazakhstani staff. The payroll partner runs the monthly mechanics; you keep the employment relationship.

02

Accurate every cycle

Income tax, mandatory pension, the employer pension top-up, and social health insurance contributions calculated and withheld correctly, payslips issued, and statutory filings made on schedule, every month.

03

Multi-country consolidation

Run payroll across several markets under one partner and one process, rather than a different vendor and standard in every country.

How managed Kazakhstani payroll works, step by step

From onboarding your employee data to filing and reconciliation.

01 — Scope & onboard

We map your entity, headcount, and where you employ people, place you with the right vetted Kazakhstani payroll partner, and onboard your employee data.

02 — Set up calculations

Income tax, mandatory pension, the employer pension top-up, social health insurance, and social tax configured correctly to the 2026 Tax Code’s rates, so every payslip is right from the first run.

03 — Run monthly payroll

Salaries calculated, income tax and all statutory contributions withheld, payslips issued, and people paid on schedule, every cycle.

04 — File & reconcile

Statutory filings to the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund, the Social Health Insurance Fund, and the State Revenue Committee made on time, with annual reconciliation handled for you.

What payroll in Kazakhstan costs

Your statutory employer costs, plus a payroll partner fee. Kazakhstan’s employer burden is predictable once configured, but split across three lines, one of which (the employer pension top-up) is still rising every year to 2028; the value of the partner is accuracy and time, in a system where every rate just changed under the 2026 Tax Code.

Employer contributions

Roughly 12.5% of gross salary for 2026 across the employer pension top-up (3.5%, rising to 5% by 2028), social tax (6%), and mandatory social health insurance (3%), reconfigured correctly for the 2026 Tax Code’s new rates on every payroll run.

Minimum wage (2026)

KZT 85,000 per month for 2026, one national rate with no regional variation to track.

Income tax (employee)

Two-tier progressive rate, 10% up to 8,500 times the monthly calculation index a year, 15% above, plus a 10% employee pension contribution and a 2% social health insurance contribution, calculated and filed correctly on every payslip.

Payroll partner fee

A transparent per-employee or per-payslip fee. We benchmark across our vetted network, typically 15 to 25% below going direct.

Why run it through Bradford Jacobs

One partner, many countries

If you run payroll across several markets, including Kazakhstan and its Central Asian neighbours, we consolidate it through vetted partners under one point of contact, not a different vendor and a different standard in every country.

  • Independent advice
  • Vetted partners only
  • On your side at renewal

Pricing you can’t get direct

Kazakhstan runs three separate mandatory payroll lines, one of them still rising every year to 2028, and getting a split wrong on a payslip is an easy, visible mistake, especially with rates that just changed under the 2026 Tax Code. We benchmark across our payroll network for rates typically 15 to 25% below going direct, and renegotiate for you at renewal.

  • 15-25% below direct
  • Network benchmarking
  • Renegotiated for you

New tax code rules that expose risk

The pension, employer pension top-up, social health insurance, and social tax splits, the two-tier income-tax withholding, and the annual reconciliation deadline, most of it rewritten on 1 January 2026. We place you with partners who get the specifics right, and we stay on your side if anything needs escalating.

  • Direct escalation
  • No support queues
  • Named account contact

20+ years and the local detail

Two decades running compliant payroll across global markets, the deadlines, the filings, the year-end detail that exposes risk.

  • Two decades of payroll
  • Deadlines & filings
  • Year-end handled

Built to scale across markets

Run payroll in one country or twenty through one partner and one process. As you add markets, the standard does not fragment, you keep a single point of contact and consistent compliance everywhere.

  • One process everywhere
  • Single point of contact
  • Consistent compliance

The pension, health, and social tax split the State Revenue Committee never misses

These are the ones that catch foreign employers, and the reason a specialist partner pays for itself.

Tax & deduction rates

Misapplying the two-tier income-tax withholding. Getting the mandatory pension, employer pension top-up, social health insurance, and social tax splits wrong, especially after the 2026 Tax Code changed nearly every rate. Missing a statutory benefit or leave entitlement. Each is easy to get wrong alone and visible to the State Revenue Committee and the pension and health insurance funds when you do.

Filings, deadlines & reporting

Late remittance to the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund, the Social Health Insurance Fund, or the State Revenue Committee, where penalties and interest apply automatically. None of these are hard for a specialist; all are easy to get wrong alone. That is the whole case for getting your Kazakhstani payroll partner right.

What managed payroll covers

One transparent fee covers the full monthly payroll cycle. No hidden extras.

Tax, pension & social health insurance filings

Compliant Kazakhstani payroll processed monthly, with income tax and all statutory pension and social health insurance contributions correct every run.

Payroll & filings

Monthly payroll run, with income tax and all statutory contributions calculated, withheld, and filed correctly each month.

Statutory benefits

All statutory benefits administered: annual leave, sick pay, parental leave, notice and severance.

Compliance & support

Ongoing HR compliance and a single point of contact, for the life of the engagement.

Your questions answered

Straight answers on running compliant payroll in Kazakhstan.

Do I need a Kazakhstani entity to use payroll services?

Yes. Payroll outsourcing assumes you are the legal employer, which usually means you have a Kazakhstani LLP. If you have no entity and do not want one yet, you need an EOR instead, where the partner is the legal employer. We will confirm which applies to you.

Income tax calculation and remittance, employer and employee contributions across mandatory pension, the employer pension top-up, social health insurance, and social tax, statutory benefits and leave, payslips, and all statutory filings to the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund, the Social Health Insurance Fund, and the State Revenue Committee. You keep the employment relationship; they keep it compliant and on time.

A new Tax Code took effect on 1 January 2026: VAT rose from 12% to 16%, income tax moved from a flat 10% to a two-tier 10%/15% scale, social tax was cut from 11% to 6%, and the employer pension top-up (OPVR) stepped up to 3.5%, on its way to 5% by 2028. A good payroll partner reconfigures every payslip calculation for the new rates automatically, one of the most common payroll mistakes when a full tax code rewrite lands in one go.

Roughly 12.5% of gross salary for 2026 across the employer pension top-up, social tax, and mandatory social health insurance, all employer-funded. Add the transparent payroll partner fee and you have your all-in cost.

Yes, and it is one of the main reasons companies come to us. One point of contact and a consistent process across markets, rather than a separate provider and a different standard in every country.

Yes. When you register your own LLP and become the legal employer, we move your people from the EOR arrangement onto your own compliant Kazakhstani payroll, and manage the handover so nothing is missed.

Need compliant payroll in Kazakhstan?

Tell us your entity setup and headcount and we will come back with the right partner and pricing you will not get direct, usually within a day. One process, every country you operate in.

Tax and labour data verified July 2026 (Kazakhstan Tax Code, Labour Code, Unified Accumulative Pension Fund, Social Health Insurance Fund, eGov.kz). Figures change; we confirm the current position when we scope your payroll.