Payroll in Dominican Republic
Payroll in Dominican Republic
Pay your team in Dominican Republic correctly, on the local calendar, with every statutory contribution filed. SILA runs the payroll whether we employ the team or you already do.
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- Statutory employer burden
- 25–35%
- Time to start
- 5–10 business days for an identified candidate
- Payroll currency
- DOP
Dominican Republic at a glance
What are employer payroll contributions in Dominican Republic?
Employer payroll contributions in Dominican Republic run 25–35% of gross salary, covering TSS social security, SFS health, Aguinaldo. Payroll is denominated in DOP. The cost table is an employment-cost benchmark using SILA's existing managed-delivery assumption; payroll-administration pricing for a team you already employ is quoted separately. Last verified 2026-08-21.
- Coverage status
- SILA launch-ready
- Pricing basis
- Employment-cost benchmark; payroll administration quoted separately
- Data last verified
- 2026-08-21
Monthly employment-cost benchmark per role in Dominican Republic
Gross monthly salary, USD equivalent, before employer burden. The landed benchmark adds statutory employer burden and a blended managed-delivery fee. It is not a payroll-administration quote; payroll-only pricing is confirmed separately in writing. Verified 2026-08-21.
| Role | Gross monthly salary | Monthly employment-cost benchmark |
|---|---|---|
| Bilingual customer support | $900 to $1,900 | $1,294 to $2,950 |
| Software engineering | $2,750 to $6,900 | $3,954 to $10,712 |
| Accounting & finance | $1,300 to $3,250 | $1,869 to $5,046 |
| Executive & virtual assistants | $900 to $2,000 | $1,294 to $3,105 |
| Sales development | $1,000 to $2,500 | $1,438 to $3,881 |
| Healthcare back office | $1,000 to $2,400 | $1,438 to $3,726 |
What payroll in Dominican Republic includes
- TSS social security. Pension, family health and labor risk.
- SFS health. Mandatory health insurance contribution.
- Aguinaldo. Annual bonus equal to one month's salary.
- Vacation. 14 working days per year after one year of service.
- Severance. Accrued based on tenure and salary for unjustified dismissal.
- Statutory filings and payment on the local calendar, with a monthly register you can reconcile.
- One regional relationship covering every market you pay in.
Model employment cost in Dominican Republic
Set the role, the seniority and the headcount. You get the salary, the statutory employer burden and the landed monthly cost from the same verified figures above.
Live workforce cost model
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Your employment-cost benchmark
$111,036
baseline annual saving on 3 mid bilingual customer support seats in Dominican Republic. Modeled range $100,992 to $120,252 (57%–68% below the US in-house equivalent).
This is not a payroll-administration quote.
It models gross salary, statutory employer costs and SILA’s existing managed-delivery assumption so you can plan total workforce cost. If you already employ the team, SILA prices payroll administration separately in the written scope.
$333,108
saved over 3 years
63%
lower annual workforce cost
5–10 days
typical onboarding once talent is selected
Plan on this
$1,824
per seat, per month
Mid salary, mid statutory burden, standard service fee. This is the number to take to finance.
Budget safely
$2,103
per seat, per month
Upper modeled range for these assumptions. Your reviewed quote confirms the final budget and any additional items.
Best case
$1,568
per seat, per month
Lower end of the published band with the leanest structure. Reachable when seniority and market allow it.
▸ Landed cost breakdown, $1,824 / seat / month
- Gross salary
- $1,220
- Statutory employer burden
- $366
- Managed-delivery fee assumption
- $238
- Team of 3, annual
- $65,664
Burden in Dominican Republic: TSS, SFS, aguinaldo, severance, vacation.
- Salary band modeled: $1,120–$1,320 gross monthly at mid level.
- Statutory employer cost: 25%–35% of gross. Mandatory benefits included, discretionary benefits excluded.
- Managed-delivery benchmark: 12%–18% of landed employment cost. Pass-throughs (equipment, background checks, one-time onboarding, severance reserves) excluded.
- USD-equivalent, quoted at the rate on the verification date. Local-currency payroll moves with FX and statutory indexation.
- Payroll-administration pricing is excluded from this benchmark and confirmed in a written quote.
- Fit for this role: Directional only, Served market, with lower verified depth for this specific role.
- Source: SILA placement data and each country's published statutory contribution schedules (IMSS, DIAN and UGPP, INSS and FGTS, CCSS, IESS, IGSS, TSS, CSS, IPS, NIS, NHT, SSB and equivalents), cross-checked against PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries. Ranges include mandatory accruals: 13th and 14th salary, vacation premium, severance and CTS or FGTS provisioning, and statutory profit sharing where it applies. Last verified 2026-08-21. See the methodology and claim registry.
- Built from SILA's current country salary, statutory burden and delivery data. A SILA specialist confirms final pricing, employing structure and launch date in writing before activation.
Dominican Republic statutory sources
- Tesorería de la Seguridad Social (TSS): Employer social security contributions.
- Ministerio de Trabajo: Regalía pascual, severance and vacation entitlements.
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What your reviewed quote contains
- Your requirement
- 3 x mid Bilingual customer support in Dominican Republic · $1,824 per seat per month landed, USD
- Recommended market and model
- Dominican Republic, with the engagement model confirmed for the role and the headcount. A relevant alternative market is priced beside it.
- Itemized components
- Gross salary by seniority, statutory employer cost, mandatory benefits, our fee and any pass throughs, shown as one landed monthly figure per seat.
- Responsibilities
- Who employs, who pays, who manages the work and who carries the compliance obligation in this market. For a managed team, BPO or build operate transfer scope, the operating scope, dependencies and ownership are set out instead of a per employee price.
- Next decision
- Approve the market and model, or ask us to price the alternative.
Turn this estimate into a country-by-country hiring plan with employment costs, recommended operating model and launch timeline.
Turn this into a costed plan for Dominican Republic.
Your market, model, landed cost and launch path, built from the same figures on this page.
Your selection carries into the plan: Dominican republic.
Who does what in Dominican Republic
The cost only means something once the responsibilities are clear. This is how each route splits recruiting, employment, supervision, payment and support for a team in Dominican Republic, and the split is written into the agreement before signature.
Employing and contracting route: We contract with you directly and place the worker on a compliant local employment structure in Dominican Republic. The exact contracting party and legal employer are named in your agreement before signature.
Staff augmentation
- Recruits
- SILA
- Employs
- The local legal employer named in your agreement
- Supervises
- You, inside your team and rituals
- Pays
- SILA, one monthly per-seat invoice
- Supports
- SILA for employment, retention and replacement
EOR, employer of record
- Recruits
- You, the person is already identified
- Employs
- The local legal employer named in your agreement
- Supervises
- You, day to day
- Pays
- SILA runs local payroll, benefits and contributions
- Supports
- SILA for employment, compliance and terminations
Direct hire
- Recruits
- SILA
- Employs
- You, through your local entity
- Supervises
- You
- Pays
- You, on your own payroll
- Supports
- You after placement; SILA through the search and offer
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Where this goes
Payroll in Dominican Republic is the fastest start. It is rarely where teams stop.
Most companies arrive with one country and one urgent hire. Twelve months later they are running several markets, a full team and their own entity. You can do all of that on the agreement you sign today, at your pace, without changing partners.
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Payroll in Dominican Republic, answered
Sources and last verification
Last verified 2026-08-21. Every launch-ready statutory assumption resolves to the institution that administers the contribution or the labour code that creates the entitlement. Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti remain SILA feasibility-review markets: their employer cost is confirmed during the feasibility review, not published as a standard payroll benchmark.
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Tesorería de la Seguridad Social (TSS)Employer social security contributions.
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Ministerio de TrabajoRegalía pascual, severance and vacation entitlements.
Machine-readable registry: latam-workforce-source-registry-2026.json
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Tell us the role and headcount. You get payroll-administration pricing separately from salary and employer costs, with responsibilities and next steps in writing.
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