Employer of Record (EOR) Services in Liberia

Employer of Record

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2% of gross salary / month

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Liberia is a small country on the western coast of Africa bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast. This country was created by African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans who wanted to return to Africa and was declared independent in 1847. This Americo-Liberian population is, however, far outnumbered by native groups of multiple ethnicities. From the 1980s to the 2000s, Liberia suffered costly civil wars. Peace has reigned since 2003, though, and the population has grown to 5.561 million people while the GDP has reached $4.75 billion. In 2024, this GDP growth is set to continue at 5.3%. Liberia’s wealth comes from its natural resources, like mining gold, but its people are also an untapped resource. If your company wants to get Liberian workers on its payroll, an EOR is the best way to make this happen.

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What Is a Liberia EOR?

A Liberia employer of record or EOR works in Liberia to help other companies hire local workers. To employ Liberians, a business would normally have to register as a legal entity in the country, which can be expensive and time-consuming. If it partners with an EOR, however, the EOR can hire employees on the company’s behalf and employ them to work directly for that client company. It would normally handle all of the related human resources (HR) functions for those employees, including recruiting, hiring, contract preparation, payroll, benefits management, leave scheduling, and more. The client pays the EOR a fee per employee for providing these outsourced services. An EOR may also be referred to as a PEO or professional employment organization.

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What Are the Benefits of a Liberia EOR?

There are multiple benefits to working with an EOR in Liberia. Foreign-based companies can gain the following advantages:

Not needing an entity. If your business doesn’t work with an EOR, it will need to register an entity in Liberia so it can hire workers there. This can take a lot of time and cost money that could be used more effectively elsewhere. With an EOR, however, no entity is needed. Instead, the EOR hires workers itself and becomes their sole legal employer while the employees work directly for you.
Language skills and diversity. Liberians come from many backgrounds with histories in the US, the Caribbean, and all over Africa. While Liberians speak at least 27 local languages, the official language and lingua franca of the country is English. This diversity can bring a lot of value to any company that hires Liberians, while their English proficiency helps to make communication easy and efficient.
Fast recruitment and onboarding. Trying to hire Liberian workers yourself can be a real struggle. Without local networks and knowledge of the local labor market, it could take months to find the talent you need. On the other hand, an EOR has the local connections to find your top talent in a matter of just a few days or weeks, making recruitment that much more efficient.
Affordability. Liberia is a low-income country and salaries for workers are well below the global average. At just 6% of a worker’s salary, employer contributions are also very low making Liberian employees very affordable for foreign-based enterprises.
Constant compliance. When an EOR hires workers on your behalf, it becomes the sole legal employer of the employees in Liberia. Therefore, it also takes on the full legal responsibility for ensuring that the treatment of these workers is safe, fair, equitable, and in line with all labor laws. It also remits tax and social security payments, which need to be properly calculated and paid on time to ensure compliance.

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Why Choose Horizons?

Horizons stands out as a Liberia EOR through:

A strong regional presence in Africa, meaning senior management are on the ground to deal with any issues.
Client-focused infrastructure. Horizons won’t oversell you on products and services you don’t need. Horizons offers the easiest platform to compliantly hire and pay people worldwide.
Cost-effective solutions. At $299 per employee, per month, no EOR in Liberia is more affordable. The cost is 100% transparent (onboarding, offboarding, deposit, no extra charges).
A customer-first culture. Horizons is an efficient bootstrapped company. It is not an externally-funded company burning investor cash to aggressively acquire new clients. Horizons is the only EOR that grows with its customer, reflecting the level of care and personal attention provided to each customer. Horizons will carefully advise on the best setup in each country: the type of contract needed, how to structure your benefits, and how to offboard a person while minimizing the risk of conflicts and extra cost
A long-term partnership. Horizons is the only EOR platform with a recruitment arm — a direct response to client demand. If any employee is leaving, or if our clients want to explore a new country, Horizons can recruit new candidates directly for the client. Horizons is:
- The only EOR doing this in-house — no subcontracting
- The only EOR doing this without a retainer — clients are only charged upon success
- The only EOR charging just a 2% fee per month.

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How Does a Liberia EOR Work?

Your company can partner with an EOR in Liberia to hire workers on your behalf. This creates a three-way relationship, with the EOR acting as a link between you and the workers by providing these services:

Hiring your employees. When you begin your relationship with the EOR, you’ll need to indicate the types and numbers of positions you have available, detailing the requirements you have for workers who can fill them. Based on this information, the EOR will draw candidates from its talent pools or receive applications from the public. After selecting candidates, it will put them forward for your approval. Once you accept these workers, the EOR can hire them directly to work for you. This makes the EOR their legal employer in Liberia.
Managing employment contracts and onboarding. You and the selected candidates will have the opportunity to negotiate terms of work and compensation directly. When you have agreed upon these terms, the EOR puts them in writing by creating full legal contracts and signing them with the employees. From there, the EOR will work to onboard the employees for your organization. It will add them to its human resources information system and register them with the tax and social security authorities. It can then provide them with an orientation to your company to ready them for beginning their work.
Processing payroll and handling employment taxes. When you use an EOR to hire workers in Liberia, it will normally take on the function of payroll for these workers. You’ll need to provide the EOR with worked hours data which it will use to calculate the employees’ gross salaries. From there, it will calculate and deduct their taxes and social security contributions as well as your employer contributions, and make the appropriate payments. The funds left over, their net salaries, are then paid to employees who are also given pay slips for their records.
Administering benefits. Many employers choose to offer their employees additional benefits such as pensions and insurance packages. In this case, the EOR can manage these benefits for your company by finding appropriate programs, signing employees up for them, and managing their monthly contributions as well as yours.
Taking care of exit procedures. The EOR, as the sole legal employer of your workers, has the right to terminate them. When you indicate to the EOR that you need to terminate workers individually or as a group, it will review your cause to ensure it’s just. It will then provide workers with notice and calculate and make severance payments as necessary.

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Labor Laws

Liberia’s labor laws are extensive and provide good protections for both workers and employers. That said, they are distributed over various legal instruments like the Constitution and the Decent Work Act of 2015, as well as many other decrees. While an EOR is experienced in keeping track of these statutes, it can be very hard for a foreign-based company to ensure compliance with all of them. While that’s best left up to the EOR, it’s still useful for companies to be familiar with the following main points of law so you’ll know what you need to provide for Liberian employees.

Employment contract types

Contracts may be oral or written. They can be definite, indefinite, or for specific tasks. All contracts must include the name of the employer and place of employment; name and details of the employee; position and job description; duration of employment; notice period; salary and periodicity of payment; and provisions for family welfare.

Project-based

Fixed-term

Indefinite

Working hours in Liberia

Normal working hours in Liberia are eight hours a day for six days a week to a total of 48 hours/week. However, an employee who works fewer than eight hours one day can make up as many as four hours another day. Employers may also oblige workers to work up to five hours of overtime in a week.

Overtime must be compensated in the following way:

Holiday Schedule in Liberia [2025]

Liberia normally has 11 to 12 public holidays per year. These days are considered paid holidays. An employer can ask an employee to work but must pay 200% of their normal wages or compensate them with a day off later if the employee agrees.

Date	Holiday name
1 Jan 2025	New Year’s Day
11 Feb 2025	Armed Forces Day
12 Mar 2025	Decoration Day
15 Mar 2025	Joseph Jenkins Roberts Birthday
11 Apr 2025	Fast and Prayer Day
14 May 2025	National Unification Day
26 Jul 2025	Independence Day
24 Aug 2025	National Flag Day
6 Nov 2025	Thanksgiving
29 Nov 2025	William V.S. Tubman’s Birthday
25 Dec 2025	Christmas Day

Paid time off

Employees who work at least five hours continuously are entitled to a paid one-hour lunch break. They must receive 12 hours of daily rest between shifts and one period of rest of 36 hours per week which should normally be on Sundays.

Sick leave in Liberia

Employees may take three days of paid sick leave without needing to provide a medical certificate. This can be extended to ten days with a certificate.

Less than 6 months of sick leave:

(percentage of regular wages owed to the employee)

Over 6 months of sick leave

In order for employees to receive the full wages due to them, workers must present a valid medical certificate from a certified doctor to their employer.

Maternity leave in Liberia

Expecting mothers are entitled to 14 weeks of fully paid maternity leave, with a minimum of six weeks of these taken after confinement.

Fathers are entitled to five days of unpaid paternity leave, which must be used within one month of a child’s birth. A man with more than one wife can only take paternity leave for children born to one of them and must identify this wife with the employer.

Annual leave in Liberia

Annual leave is tied to years of service. A worker gets one working week of leave. After 24 months of service to the employer, the employee gets two working weeks of leave per year. After 36 months, they get three working weeks, and after 60 months of service (five years), employees get four working weeks of annual leave. Annual leave must all be taken at one time. Unused leave can be accumulated but must be used within three years.

Termination & severance in Liberia

Employers can terminate contracts for just cause.

Except for cases of gross misconduct, workers must be given termination notice based on their period of service:

One week’s notice for less than three months’ service
Two weeks’ notice for three to six months’ service
Three weeks’ notice for six to 12 months’ service
Four weeks’ notice for over a year’s service

An employee who is terminated because of economic reasons is entitled to four weeks of severance for each year of service completed.

Liberia's compulsory social security contributions

National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP) oversees social security contributions.

Compulsory social security contributions in Liberia are designed to provide financial protection and support to employees in cases of retirement, disability, death, and work-related injuries.

Liberia social security for foreigners

Foreign employees who contribute to the social security system are entitled to the same benefits as Liberian nationals, including old age pension, invalidity pension, survivors’ pension, and employment injury benefits.

Individual income tax

Individual income tax is imposed on the income of residents and non-residents who earn income within the country. The tax system is progressive, with different rates applied to different income brackets. Non-residents are taxed only on income sourced within Liberia.

Personal allowances and deductions may be available to reduce the taxable income of individuals. These can include allowances for dependents, education expenses, and medical expenses.

Health insurance

Health insurance options in Liberia primarily include private plans from international and local providers, employer-sponsored plans, and government health programs. The cost of health insurance premiums can vary based on the level of coverage, age, health status, and other factors.

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Compensation & Benefits

Liberia compensation laws

Since 2015, the minimum wage in Liberia has been 15 LRD (Liberian dollars) per hour (about 0.077 USD/hour) or 5600 LRD/month for civil servants (about 29 USD/month).

13 month salary in Liberia

A 13th-month annual bonus is not mandatory in Liberia.

Social security for Liberian nationals

Employers in Liberia pay contributions equal to 6% of a worker’s salary to old age, invalidity, survivor’s benefits (4%), and insurance for accidents and occupational diseases (2%). Employees also pay 4% of their salaries toward these benefits.

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Frequently asked questions

What are the benefits of using an EOR in Liberia for small businesses?

Small businesses rarely have the resources to register business entities in foreign countries. By working with EORs, however, they can take advantage of the ability to hire Liberian workers without needing to own an entity in Liberia. Since these workers are also highly affordable and use English as their official language, they can provide a lot of value for small businesses.

How does an EOR in Liberia handle payroll and tax compliance?

An EOR in Liberia calculates workers’ gross salaries based on their worked hours for each pay period. It then calculates deductions, withholds them, and pays them to the tax authority. It also calculates employer contributions and employee deductions for social security and ensures these are paid accurately and promptly.

Employer of Record (EOR) Services in Liberia