Payroll in Austria

Choosing an Austrian payroll provider

Ask which collective agreement the firm thinks applies to your staff, since a wrong grading is expensive to correct later. Ask whether it registers the company as an employer, sends the monthly reports to the health insurance fund and the tax office, and prepares the annual wage statements. If staff will work from another EU country, or a managing director lives abroad, ask how the firm decides where social insurance is due and whether it applies for the A1 certificate. Austrian professional law lets a Steuerberater keep the books including payroll, so ask whether the person running yours holds that licence. Find out the monthly cut-off for hours and changes, and what the fee per payslip includes.

Firms on Accountanty

Accountanty lists 40 firms that run payroll in Austria, all with offices in Vienna: 38 accounting firms and two corporate service providers. Twenty-four are small, nine medium-sized and seven part of large networks. Thirty-nine work in German and 34 in English, and Russian, Italian and Hungarian are each offered by five. Thirty-nine of the 40 say they serve foreign clients, and 39 also keep accounts. Real estate, named by 16, and construction, named by nine, are the sectors they mention most. For staff coming from outside the EU, see residency and visas in Austria.