Full employer of record: Syrian employment contracts, social insurance, payroll, insurance, and salaries paid on time — in Damascus, Aleppo and across all 14 governorates.
Hiring without a legal employer exposes both your company and the worker — no contract that holds under Syrian Labour Law, no social insurance, no defensible payroll trail.
And the global EOR platforms cannot close that gap for you: US-based employer-of-record providers are legally barred from operating in Syria, and the rest list the country through unnamed local partners, if at all.
This page is written by the company that actually does it — with the real Syrian statutory rates published below, and our compliance posture stated plainly: counterparty screening before any engagement.
Employment contracts are issued by our registered Syrian company. WorkLink operates the service and is your single point of contact.
| Area | What is delivered |
|---|---|
| Employment contract | Fixed-term contract under Syrian Labour Law, in Arabic with an English counterpart, on the role, duration, salary and notice terms you agree. |
| Statutory registration | Employee registered with the social insurance authority and the payroll tax file at mission start; deregistered at mission end. |
| Statutory contributions | Employer and employee social insurance contributions and payroll income tax calculated, declared and paid on the statutory calendar. |
| Payroll administration | Monthly payroll run, payslip to the employee, and a monthly report to you showing gross, deductions, net and statutory paid. |
| Salary disbursement | Net salary paid inside Syria on a fixed date each month, by the agreed local method, with proof of payment. |
| Insurance placement | Locally issued cover placed against your written specification and administered with a licensed carrier. |
| Offboarding | End-of-mission settlement and release of the employee within ten working days of the mission end date. |
| Single point of contact | A named account manager for you; a named contact in Damascus for the employee. |
The real Syrian statutory rates, published — because a buyer should not need a discovery call to learn what the law already fixes.
| Item | Rate | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Employee social insurance | 7.1% of insurable salary | verified August 2026 |
| Employer social insurance | 16.9% of insurable salary | verified August 2026 |
| Social insurance ceiling | SYP 240,000 / month (≈ USD 1,644) — contributions are flat above it | verified August 2026 |
| Payroll income tax | 15% of salary, withheld at source | verified August 2026 |
| Reference exchange rate | 146 SYP/USD | as of 2026-08-25 |
Rates are re-verified quarterly against counsel; a change in Syrian law, rates or ceilings is passed through at actual cost, with evidence. Full walk-through with worked examples: social insurance & payroll tax rates · what it costs to employ someone in Syria.
Statutory registration is the governing step, and its duration is set by the authorities — we publish the honest timeline, not the optimistic one.
You send the employee's documents and the agreed salary. The clock starts once the first invoice is settled in cleared funds and the documents are complete.
Contract prepared under Syrian Labour Law, agreed with you, and signed by the employee — Arabic original with an English counterpart.
Social insurance and payroll tax registration; insurance cover placed in parallel.
Employee registered, insured, and available to start work.
Salary paid on the agreed fixed date inside Syria; payroll report issued to you showing gross, deductions, net and statutory paid.
Final settlement, statutory deregistration, and closing report within ten working days of mission end.
Foreign-national engagement follows a different legal structure from local employment and is scoped case by case, subject to the regulations in force at the time of the assignment.
We arrange entry invitations, visa support, work-permit processing and residence formalities, quoted separately per assignment — tell us the role, nationality and dates and we will confirm the workable structure before you commit.
Share of formal opportunities published on WorkLink in H1 2026, by governorate — evidence of operating reach, not a marketing map. A single posting may cover several governorates.
Coverage extends to every governorate, including Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Al-Hasakah — source: the H1 2026 labour-market report.
Deploying engineers on short-term missions under frame agreements. Per-mission mobilisation, monthly payroll reports, and offboarding on a fixed clock — built for call-off work.
Entering Syria without an entity. Put site engineers, supervisors and support staff on compliant local payroll while your registration — if you ever need one — catches up.
Hiring national staff compliantly. Contracts under Syrian Labour Law, statutory contributions evidenced monthly — audit-ready from day one.
You found the developer; paying them compliantly is the hard part. We employ them locally and handle salary delivery inside Syria — you get one invoice.
Statutory costs are printed above in full and passed through at actual. Our fee is flat per employee — never a percentage of salary — so a raise for your engineer is not a raise for us.
Fees step down with volume — ask us about frame-agreement terms. A scoped quote takes two working days, not a discovery call.
Six fields, no discovery call required. You get a scoped quote within two working days.
Facts only an operator can publish — each one date-stamped and re-verified quarterly.
The 16.9% / 7.1% contributions, the SYP 240,000 ceiling, the 15% payroll tax — with a worked example.
Read the guide →Three worked examples at different salary levels, showing how the statutory wedge behaves either side of the ceiling.
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