The Best EOR
Provider in Albania, tested
Choosing the best EOR provider in Albania comes down to whether it can show its working. Ask why the employer’s 16.7% drops to 15.68% on a salary of ALL 200,000 a month. Ask when it files the new-hire declaration (24 hours before day one) and the listëpagesa (by the 20th). Ask it to walk you through the written invitation and hearing that Article 144 of the Labour Code requires before a dismissal. The sections below turn those tests into questions for any provider.
What legal duties pass from you to us?
Albanian law puts each duty below on the employer, and we carry all of them for your hire from day one.
- Declare each new starter to the DPT on e-filing at least 24 hours before work begins
- Put the Article 21 terms in a written contract, signed within 7 days of the start if not on day one
- Pay salary monthly through a bank, in lek, with a payslip
- Withhold income tax at 0%, 13% or 23% under Law 29/2023 and report it each month
- Pay 16.7% employer and 11.2% employee contributions to the DPT
- Keep paying 80% or more through the first 14 days of a certified illness
- Grant at least 22 working days of paid leave, holidays excluded
- File the leaver declaration and settle final pay
One payroll lead who knows you.
Say an employee hands in a raport mjekësor on payday, or a manager wants to end a contract in probation. You email Arben, our Payroll Manager. He already has the salary, start date and leave balance open, so nothing needs explaining twice.
What should you ask an Albanian EOR provider?
Eight questions that only a provider running Albanian payroll every month can answer in detail.
Whose risk is a fine?
If the DPT queries a listëpagesa or ISHPSHSH inspects, who replies, and who pays for a fine caused by a filing error?
Payroll precision
Ask for a sample gross-to-net at ALL 250,000 a month. Income tax should come to ALL 33,600; a provider that cannot show the 23% band working is guessing.
Dismissal exposure
How are disputed dismissals handled? An unjustified one can cost up to a year’s pay plus notice, and the employee has 180 days to sue.
Employee data
Where are payslips, contracts and ID copies kept, who can open them, and how quickly is access removed when someone leaves?
Labour Code fluency
Can they explain how 22 working days of leave sit alongside 15 public holidays, and why unused days cannot be paid out while the job continues?
Permit-aware timelines
For a foreign hire, does the timeline include AKPA approval and the unique permit, or only the contract and the DPT declaration?
Predictable cost
Is the fee fixed per head or a share of salary? Does the quote apply the ALL 186,416 social insurance ceiling, or a flat 16.7% on every salary?
Records you can keep
Will you get signed contracts, payslips and each month’s listëpagesa receipt, ready for a labour inspector or a future buyer of your business?
How providers compare in Albania
Published list prices on 4 October 2026, next to what our fee includes.
| Single-country serviceEOR Albania | Deel | Remote | Oyster | RemoFirst | Native Teams | Papaya Global | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fee per month | from €599 | $599 | $699 | $699 | from $199 | from $99 | €650 |
| Hire employed and paid each month | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tax and social contributions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| List price stated in euros | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Every payslip checked against the DPT table | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| The same payroll manager for every employee you add | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Leje unike file prepared | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Article 144 hearing steps run | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Serves Albania alone | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Final pay and leaver filing | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Fees are list prices for an employer of record, taken from the providers’ own websites on 4 October 2026. For a like-for-like view in dollars, our €599 converts to US$672.38 and Papaya Global’s European €650 to about US$729.63, using the European Central Bank’s 2 October 2026 figure of 1.1225 dollars to the euro. That puts our fee above Deel and the starting prices of RemoFirst and Native Teams, which show no Albania rate, and below Remote, Oyster and Papaya Global. Dashes are points those pages leave out.
What comes with a hire through EOR Albania?
A Labour Code contract ready before the DPT declaration goes in
A lek payslip at each month end, paid by bank
Tax worked out on the 2026 table, bonuses in the month paid
Leave counted in working days, substitute holidays added
One invoice for salary, contributions and our fee
Notice and seniority pay worked out when a contract ends
Which 2026 rule changes affect payroll?
The national minimum wage went up by 25% on 1 January 2026, from ALL 40,000 to ALL 50,000 a month (VKM 776 of 19 December 2025), and it stays free of income tax. The minimum contribution base moved to ALL 50,000 with it, and the social insurance ceiling went from ALL 176,416 to ALL 186,416, which puts the employer’s maximum social insurance at ALL 27,962.40 a month. In April 2026 VKM 240 introduced a provisional unique permit issued within one working day of applying. In March 2026 a DPT instruction widened the procedure for treating self-employed income as employment income.
Which businesses suit EOR Albania best?
Companies making a first hire in Albania with no SHPK or NIPT yet
Software teams adding developers in Tirana, where ICT pay averaged ALL 131,747 a month in Q1 2026
Employers bringing in a non-EU specialist whose leje unike follows the contract
Firms testing demand with one or two people before deciding whether to register an SHPK
What do buyers ask us most?
Whose name is on my hire’s contract?+
How does payroll run each month in Albania?+
Any pension?+
Can a fired employee take it to court?+
What happens to staff records?+
How is our charge set?+
Can a contract be changed later?+
Who replies to my emails?+
Get a costed plan for your Albanian hire
Send the role and salary; we return the 2026 employer cost, net pay and our fee in lek and euros.
Fill in the form and a payroll manager will reply with figures for your role.
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