Social Security, the Social Housing Development Levy and the employer Severance Fund in EC dollars, employee and employer side, using the rules PunchClock payroll applies for St Kitts.
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For guidance only. These figures mirror the statutory contributions as PunchClock payroll applies them for St Kitts & Nevis. They are not income tax advice, rates and ceilings change, and your employer may apply different company rules. Check anything that matters with the St Kitts & Nevis Social Security Board and the Inland Revenue Department.
Enter a gross wage and the pay period and this calculator shows the statutory lines on a St Kitts & Nevis payslip: the employee's Social Security and Social Housing Development Levy, and on the employer side Social Security, the levy and the Severance Payments Fund contribution. It gives the net pay and the total cost of employment, in Eastern Caribbean dollars, using the rules PunchClock applies when it runs payroll for St Kitts companies, with the current rates and caps read from PunchClock's payroll settings.
Social Security is 5% from the employee, capped at the insurable-earnings ceiling, with the employer paying 6% (5% plus 1% employment injury) on the same ceiling. The Social Housing Development Levy has an exemption below which the employee pays nothing; once pay for the period is over it, the levy is charged in bands from the first dollar, at a low rate on the first band and higher rates on the pay above each breakpoint, while the employer pays a flat 3% of gross. The Severance Payments Fund is employer-only, 1% of gross with no cap.
The exemption and breakpoints are published as weekly and monthly amounts; for fortnightly, semi-monthly and annual pay the calculator scales them, and says so in the assumptions. St Kitts & Nevis has no personal income tax on wages, so these are normally the only statutory deductions.
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Two employee deductions: Social Security (5% of gross up to the insurable ceiling) and the Social Housing Development Levy (banded, and only once pay is over the exemption). The employer adds Social Security at 6%, the levy at 3% and the Severance Payments Fund at 1%. There is no personal income tax on wages.
If gross for the period is at or below the exemption (a weekly and a monthly figure are published) the employee pays no levy. If gross is above it, the levy is calculated on the whole gross in bands, not just on the part over the exemption, so crossing the line changes the deduction noticeably. The calculator shows this.
The employer contribution is 5% plus a 1% employment injury contribution, on the same insurable-earnings ceiling as the employee share. Both stop rising once the ceiling is reached in the period.
No. It is paid by the employer only (1% of gross, no cap) and does not appear as a deduction on the employee's payslip, though it is part of the employer's cost shown here.
They are the rates, ceilings and bands PunchClock payroll applies for St Kitts & Nevis, read live from its payroll settings and dated in the Rules panel. Confirm with the St Kitts & Nevis Social Security Board and the Inland Revenue Department before relying on a figure.
Free to use and works in your browser: the pay you type stays on your device. The page only fetches the current statutory rates from PunchClock. Figures are for guidance only: pay rules are set by each country's law and by your contract, so check anything that matters with your labour department or payroll.
PunchClock runs St Kitts & Nevis payroll with these contributions, caps and thresholds applied automatically on every payslip, plus the returns for the St Kitts & Nevis Social Security Board and the Inland Revenue Department.