Payroll in Norway

Hiring in Norway makes the company an employer, with duties that run every month: paying salary, withholding the employee’s tax, issuing payslips, and paying employer’s national insurance contributions. Skatteetaten publishes the contribution rate by zone for 2026, from 14.1 percent in the main zone down to zero in the most remote one, so the address where staff work affects the cost of each hire.

Before choosing a firm, ask whether payroll runs in its own system or yours, how many days before payment it needs the hours and changes, and whether payslips can reach employees in English. A founder who hires one person needs less than a company with shift workers, so ask whether there is a minimum number of employees. Check whether pension and holiday pay are handled or left to you.

Accountanty lists 32 firms in Norway that offer payroll: 30 accounting firms, one corporate service provider and one law firm. Fourteen are small, 13 medium-sized and five part of large networks. Norwegian is offered by 29 and English by 26, Polish by four, and 27 have a foreign-client focus. Construction, start-ups and energy are named by the most. Payroll depends on the books, see accounting in Norway, and the Oslo page lists firms by city.