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For employers

Build your team in Vietnam with fewer surprises.

For investors opening their first office, established multinationals and Vietnamese companies alike: pick the right service, estimate the cost, check market pay and work out Gross ↔ Net and severance under 2026 rules.

Services

Five ways to build your team.

Choose a service to see its benefits, who it suits and how it is priced.

Specialists, managers and senior executives

Recruitment & Executive Search

Our consultants source, screen and assess candidates, including confidential executive search for senior leaders who are not actively looking. Successful candidates join your own payroll.

Pricing: Success fee as a percentage of annual gross salary

Service details

Benefits

  • Shortlist of 3 to 5 interviewed candidates
  • Fee payable only on a successful placement
  • Free replacement within the guarantee period
  • Access to candidates across Elitez Group's six markets

Best for

  • Foreign-invested, multinational and Vietnamese companies with a legal entity in Vietnam
  • Permanent roles you want to keep in-house
  • General Managers, Plant Managers, CFOs and hard-to-fill specialists

Which fits you

Match your situation to a service.

New to Vietnam or long established, multinational or Vietnamese — every client can use all five services. This table simply shows which one usually fits each situation best.

Your situation
No legal entity in Vietnam yetBest fitAlso fits
Need a permanent manager on your payrollBest fit
Executive or confidential searchBest fit
Seasonal, project or outsourced headcountBest fit
HQ headcount freezeAlso fitsBest fit
Own staff, but no payroll teamBest fit
Bringing in a foreign expertAlso fitsAlso fitsBest fit
Opening a new plant, branch or officeBest fitAlso fitsAlso fitsAlso fits
Reducing payroll admin and compliance riskAlso fitsBest fit

No legal entity in Vietnam yet

Need a permanent manager on your payroll

Executive or confidential search

Seasonal, project or outsourced headcount

HQ headcount freeze

Own staff, but no payroll team

Bringing in a foreign expert

Opening a new plant, branch or office

Reducing payroll admin and compliance risk

Best fit Also fitsTap a service name to see benefits and pricing.

Cost simulator

What will this team cost?

Statutory employer contributions are calculated under 2026 rules. Service fees are illustrative until Elitez Asia Vietnam confirms a quote.

Your team

VND
VND
13th-month salary

Fee rates are placeholders for this prototype. Visa & work permit is quoted per case.

Estimated cost · 5 × 12 months

Gross salary25,000,000 ₫
Social insurance 17.5% (incl. OA-OD 0.5%)4,375,000 ₫
Health insurance 3%750,000 ₫
Unemployment insurance 1%250,000 ₫
Trade union fee 2%500,000 ₫
Employment cost / person / month30,875,000 ₫

Permanent Recruitment

₫2.28bnEmployment: ₫1.98bnOne-off fee: ₫300mOn your payroll and entity.

EOR

₫2.21bnEmployment: ₫1.98bnService fee: ₫237.3mElitez is the legal employer. No entity needed.

Staffing / Outsourcing

₫2.18bnEmployment: ₫1.98bnService fee: ₫197.8mHeadcount stays off your books.

Payroll Outsourcing

₫2bnEmployment: ₫1.98bnPayslip fees: ₫18mYour entity employs; we run payroll.

Excludes allowances, bonuses and your internal HR time. 2026 rules, Vietnamese employees.

Salary guide 2026

What does this role pay?

Monthly gross base salary for FDI employers in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

Vietnam · 2026 benchmark (demo)

Explore your salary range

Type a job title, pick the industry and level. Ranges are illustrative until Elitez Asia Vietnam publishes its 2026 data.

Technology & Digital · Manager

69 – 115 million

VND per month · illustrative gross base salary

0240m

Matched role: Engineering Manager · Technology & Software

Fictional data for demonstration only. Actual pay varies by experience, company, location and total package.

Free for employers

Reserve the Vietnam Salary Guide 2027

  • Pay ranges by role, industry and seniority
  • Hiring-market notes from our consultants
  • Or a tailored benchmark for one role, prepared by a consultant
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Gross ↔ Net

Gross to net, and back.

Resident employee, 2026 PIT schedule, base salary 2.53m and insurance ceilings.

VND
Employee
Insurance salary
Net salary26,215,000 ₫
Gross salary30,000,000 ₫
Social insurance 8%−2,400,000 ₫
Health insurance 1.5%−450,000 ₫
Unemployment insurance 1%−300,000 ₫
Family deductions (15.5m + 0 × 6.2m)15,500,000 ₫
Taxable income11,350,000 ₫
Personal income tax−635,000 ₫
Net salary26,215,000 ₫
Employer contributions (21.5% + union 2%)7,050,000 ₫
Total employer cost37,050,000 ₫
PIT bracketRateIncome in bracketTax
0m – 10m5%10,000,000500,000
10m – 30m10%1,350,000135,000
Show the formula
Employee insurance = (8% SI + 1.5% HI) × min(insurance salary, 20 × base salary) + 1% UI × min(insurance salary, 20 × regional minimum wage) Taxable income = Gross − insurance − 15.5m − 6.2m × dependants PIT (5-bracket schedule, quick method): ≤ 10m : TI × 5% 10m – 30m : TI × 10% − 0.5m 30m – 60m : TI × 20% − 3.5m 60m – 100m : TI × 30% − 9.5m > 100m : TI × 35% − 14.5m Net = Gross − insurance − PIT Net → Gross: solve for the Gross where Net(Gross) = target net

Sources: Resolution 110/2025/UBTVQH15 (deductions), PIT Law 2025 (5 brackets), Decree 161/2026/ND-CP (base salary 2.53m), Decree 293/2025/ND-CP (regional minimum wage). Excludes tax-exempt allowances and non-resident 20% flat tax.

Severance pay

Severance and job-loss allowance.

Under Articles 46 and 47 of the Labour Code 2019 and Decree 145/2020/ND-CP.

Reason for termination

Contract expiry, mutual agreement, lawful resignation, dismissal for health or force majeure, etc.

VND
Employee
Months of UI participation
Severance allowance20,000,000 ₫1 × 20,000,000 ₫
Total working time19 yr 6 mo
Less: UI participation−17 yr 9 mo
Less: previously paid−0 yr 0 mo
Time counted1 yr 9 mo
Rounded years2
Rate½ month per year
Months of salary1
Show the formula
Counted time = total working time − UI participation − time already paid Rounding: odd months ≤ 6 = ½ year; > 6 = 1 year Severance (Art. 46) = ½ × years × average salary of last 6 months Job loss (Art. 47) = max(1 × years, 2) × average salary of last 6 months

Not payable when the employee qualifies for a pension or is dismissed for unauthorised absence of 5+ consecutive working days. Probation, paid leave, sick and maternity leave on SI count as working time.

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