Salary tax & NSSF
Salary tax, NSSF and take-home pay, from gross or net.
Draft rules. These rates come from public summaries and have not been checked by an accountant yet, so treat the result as a rough estimate.
You live in Cambodia, or are here for more than 182 days in any 12 months.
Your take-home pay will show here
Enter a monthly amount and the breakdown appears as you type.
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Common questions
- Read the guide: How salary tax is worked out in Cambodia
- Read the guide: NSSF contributions in Cambodia: who pays what
NSSF is Cambodia's National Social Security Fund. Each month your employer takes your pension contribution, 2% of your wage, and adds 2% of their own.
Your employer also pays for occupational risk and health care on your behalf. Those don't come out of your pay, but they are part of what you cost them.
Contributions are worked out on a wage between 400,000 ៛ and 1,200,000 ៛ a month, so above that ceiling they stop growing.
For a tax resident the rate rises in steps. The first 1,500,000 ៛ a month is tax-free, then 5% up to 2,000,000 ៛, 10% up to 8,500,000 ៛, 15% up to 12,500,000 ៛ and 20% above that.
Each rate applies only to the part of your salary inside its step, so a raise never lowers your take-home. Your NSSF pension share is taken off first, so you are not taxed on it.
Usually yes if you live in Cambodia, or have been here for more than 182 days in any 12 months.
Non-residents pay a flat 20% on their salary, with no tax-free first step and no allowance for dependants. KitMel takes the NSSF pension share off first, which an accountant is still confirming.
Typically a spouse who stays at home, and children who are minors or in full-time study. Each one takes 150,000 ៛ a month off your taxable salary.
Only tax residents get this allowance, and your employer applies it from what you have declared to them, so check with HR who is on your record.
Yes. Under "I know my", choose "Net (take-home)" and enter the amount. KitMel finds the gross salary that leaves exactly that take-home, then shows the full breakdown.
This helps when a job offer is quoted net and you want to know the gross to put in the contract.
Salary tax is worked out in riel, so a dollar salary is converted first. KitMel uses the National Bank of Cambodia's official rate, shown in the header and updated each morning. If that rate can't be read, it uses 4,000 ៛ per dollar. You can enter your own rate in the header.
For tax, employers convert at the official rate published on the 15th of the month, so your payslip may differ by a little.
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