Kenya payroll calculator
Net pay, and what the role costs the company.
These figures are provisional. They have not yet been confirmed against ACCUREX’s payroll practice — treat anything here as indicative.
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Type a basic pay to begin.
The statutory minimums come to more than the pay at this level, so the figure goes below zero. The SHIF minimum is a fixed amount rather than a percentage, so it does not scale down with very small monthly earnings.
Figures and review date. PAYE bands, reliefs and the taxable-pay rules from the Kenya Revenue Authority; NSSF from the NSSF; SHIF from the Social Health Authority. Reviewed . This is a calculator, not advice — it works only from the figures you enter and takes no account of your contracts or policies. Check any figure before you rely on it.
What this tells you
Two numbers people confuse. Net pay is what reaches the employee's account. Cost to company is what this role costs the business — the pay plus the contributions the employer makes on top. Use the switch to see either.
How it is worked out
SHIF, NSSF and the housing levy come off before tax is calculated, so they reduce the tax as well as the pay. PAYE is then charged band by band on what is left, and personal relief comes off the tax once.
Asked for a net pay figure, the calculator runs that same calculation over and over until it lands on your number — so the two directions always agree.
Need a hand?
A calculator answers the arithmetic. The judgement — what a contract provides, how a policy applies, what a particular case needs — is a conversation.
ACCUREX advises on exactly this, every day. Talk to an HR consultant.
Common questions
Usually something specific to the employer — a benefit valued into pay, an allowance treated differently, or an adjustment from a previous month. This applies the statutory rules to the figures you type.
The employee's contribution is allowed against taxable pay, which is how it is applied here. That changed at the end of 2024, so an older calculator may give a higher tax figure.
The cap covers retirement contributions together rather than each scheme. The calculator says so on screen when it applies.
A flat training levy of 50 a month per employee. It never appears on a payslip because the employee does not pay it, but it is part of what employing someone costs.
One employee here. All of them in PiPO HRIS.
The same calculation across your whole payroll, from approved attendance, with the statutory position visible before the month closes.