Hire employees in
Hungary, hassle-free
Hire employees in Hungary, hassle-free
With Deel, your business can easily hire employees in Hungary. No more worrying about local laws, complex tax systems, or managing international payroll. Deel takes care of everything in 150+ countries.
The average onboarding time frame in Hungary is 4 days with Deel.
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Currency
Hungarian forint (HUF)

Capital
Budapest
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Official Language
Hungarian
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Payroll Cycle
Monthly
Hire employees in Hungary. No entity needed.
Usually, to hire in Hungary, your business needs an entity. That means a local office, an address registered as a subsidiary, and an account with a local bank. All of this, plus navigating regional benefits, payroll, tax, and HR laws, can take months.
Hungary also treats contractors differently than full-time employees, so misclassifying a contractor could lead to fines. Deel lets you hire employees in Hungary quickly, easily, and compliantly. We even automate tax document collection, payroll, benefits, and more.
All the necessary benefits for Hungary
built right in
Deel allows you to provide localized benefits for employees in Hungary within minutes. All in one manageable online dashboard.
- Public Health Insurance
- Social Security
- Private Healthcare - Unisure (optional)
Our quickstart guide to hiring in Hungary
Navigate the tabs below to learn everything you need to know about hiring an employee in Hungary
Minimum Wage Requirements
Individual Income Tax
Employer Cost
The employer cost is generally estimated at 13.0% of the employee salary.
- Social Contribution Tax - 13.0%
Overtime Pay & Maximum Hours
Standard working hours are 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week. The standard workweek is from Monday to Friday.
Overtime payment is mandatory. Hours outside of standard work hours are considered overtime. Employees can work a maximum of 4 hours of overtime daily and 8 hours of overtime weekly.
For additional hours, employees are paid an additional salary supplement of 50% on weekdays, and 100% on holidays and weekends.
For holidays and weekends, employees will receive a salary supplement of 50% if they are compensated with a weekly rest day.
Maternity Leave
The employee will generally receive 100% of the monthly average salary of the 2 year period prior to childbirth, and the National Treasury will be responsible for this pay.
The employee cannot extend leave.
Paternity Leave
The employee cannot extend leave.
Parental Leave
Sick Leave
While the National Treasury pays for sick leave after 15 days, the employer still has to compensate the National Treasury 30% of this sick leave pay. If sick leave is due to high-risk pregnancy, a work related accident or illness (including COVID 19), the National Treasury will pay from the first day of leave.
Termination Requirements
Terminations in Hungary can be complex. There is no at-will termination in Hungary for employers, outside the probation period, and termination must be done for just cause.
Compliant terminations include:
- Voluntarily by the employee
- By mutual agreement
- Unilaterally by the employer based on:
- Probation period
- Objective grounds
- Disciplinary dismissal
- Performance due to unsuitability for the job
Notice Period
The minimum notice period is 30 days and will be increased according to the length of the employment:
- Up to 2 years of employment - 30 days of notice
- 3 years of employment - 35 days of notice
- 5 years of employment - 50 days of notice
- 10 years of employment - 55 days of notice
- 15 years of employment - 60 days of notice
- 18 years of employment - 70 days of notice
- 20 years of employment - 90 days of notice
By mutual agreement of both the parties, the notice period may be extended by up to 6 months.
Severance for Employees
In Hungary, severance pay is determined by the length of employment:
- 3 years of employment - 1 month of salary
- 5 years of employment - 2 months of salary
- 10 years of employment - 3 months of salary
- 15 years of employment - 4 months of salary
- 20 years of employment - 5 months of salary
- 25 years of employment - 6 months of salary
If employment is terminated by the employer when there are less than 5 years left until the employee becomes entitled to an old age pension, severance pay is higher:
- 3 years of employment - 2 months of salary
- 5 years of employment - 3 months of salary
- 10 years of employment - 5 months of salary
- 15 years of employment - 6 months of salary
- 20 years of employment - 8 months of salary
- 25 years of employment - 9 months of salary
Paid Time Off
PTO accrues per day of employment and is prorated based on their annual PTO entitlement.
Public Holidays
Hungary celebrates around 12 national holidays. National public holidays include:
- New Year’s Day
- Memorial Day
- Easter Friday
- Easter Monday
- Labor Day
- Pentecost Monday
- State Foundation Day
- Revolution Memorial Day
- All Saints’ Day
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day
- 2nd Day of Christmas
Onboarding
Employment Contract Details
Contracts must be in Hungarian and can be bilingual. They must be in writing and signed by both parties.
The contract must include:
- Employer data
- Employee data
- Base salary
- Job position
- Length of the employment contract (if this is not there then it will be unlimited)
- Place of employment
- Probation period
Probation Period
There is no notice period required during probation.
Hiring in Hungary, hassle-free
With Deel, your business can easily hire employees in Hungary. No more worrying about local laws, complex tax systems, or managing
international payroll. Deel takes care of everything in 150+ countries.
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