Before Komp, we had no unified view of our contractors and EOR workforce. Today HR and Finance operate from the same real-time data.
Worldwide Coverage
Hire-to-Onboard Speed
Compliance Confidence
Active AI Agents
Euro (EUR), adopted 1 January 2026
Sofia
Bulgarian, with strong English proficiency in technology roles
Monthly, with salary payable at least twice a month
Onboard talent anywhere in Bulgaria without registering an OOD or EOOD. Komp issues Labor Code-compliant contracts, registers the employment with the National Revenue Agency within the statutory window, and completes onboarding before day one.
Komp PayOps calculates euro payroll every cycle, applies the flat 10% income tax, employee and employer social security, and health insurance, respects the monthly insurable-income ceiling, and files the monthly declarations on the statutory schedule.
Our AI Agent Swarms track Bulgarian legislative change, from the annual minimum wage and insurable-income thresholds set by each state budget to Labor Code amendments, and flag the contract, policy, or payroll updates you need before they become risks.
The employer social security rate is not a single number in Bulgaria. It moves with the accident-at-work fund band that applies to your activity. Komp confirms the correct classification before the first payroll run, so you avoid retroactive underpayment exposure.

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Before Komp, we had no unified view of our contractors and EOR workforce. Today HR and Finance operate from the same real-time data.
Komp didn't just simplify global hiring. They gave us a command center for scaling internationally. Instead of waiting months to establish an entity, we onboarded talent compliantly in just days.
Komp gave us the compliance infrastructure to operate confidently across regulated markets, without increasing operational overhead.
As our international footprint expanded, maintaining consistency across workforce processes became challenging. Komp helped us establish a scalable framework that supports operational efficiency and compliance confidence.
We finally have systems of scale that move as fast as our product teams. KOMP didn’t just reduce admin burden, they gave us infrastructure we can actually build on.
Global hiring evolved from a cross-functional burden into a coordinated operating model. For the first time, HR, Finance, and Legal were looking at the same numbers in the same place.
Komp becomes the legal employer for your Bulgarian team members and takes on their statutory liabilities, while you run the work. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Skip incorporation, share capital, commercial register filings, the Bulgarian bank account, employer registration with the National Revenue Agency, and arranging the accident-at-work classification. Komp’s existing Bulgarian infrastructure lets you make offers as soon as you find the right person.
Komp Activate runs onboarding, contracts, and benefits; Komp PayOps runs euro payroll with monthly declarations; Komp TimeOps tracks working time, leave, and absence; and compliant offboarding closes the loop, all in one flow.
Komp Workforce gives HR, Finance, and Legal a single source of truth for Bulgarian and global headcount, covering payroll status, fully loaded employer costs, contribution ceilings, leave balances, and compliance alerts, with audit trails built in.
Komp manages every part of the Bulgarian employment relationship so your team can focus on the work, not the paperwork.
We issue written contracts that meet Labor Code requirements, setting the job position and classification code, base salary, working time, probation, notice, and leave, and we register the contract with the revenue authority before the employee starts.
We collect the personal identification and bank details, complete the pre-employment formalities including the mandatory occupational health checks, confirm the accident-at-work fund classification, and set up payroll before the start date.
Komp PayOps calculates gross-to-net pay in euro, applies the flat 10% income tax, meets the requirement to pay salary at least twice a month, and pays employees through our owned payment infrastructure with clear payslips.
We calculate and remit the employee contribution of 13.78% and the employer contribution, which runs between roughly 18.9% and 19.6% depending on your accident-at-work band, applying the monthly ceiling on insurable income correctly.
We file the per-employee and totals declarations with the National Revenue Agency by the statutory deadline each month, and maintain the records the labor inspectorate and revenue authority expect to see on inspection.
We administer the minimum 20 working days of paid annual leave, the 15 public holidays, the employer-funded first three days of sick leave, and the transition to state sickness benefit, alongside any supplementary benefits you choose to offer.
Komp TimeOps tracks working hours, overtime limits, and leave balances under the Labor Code. Employees get support in Bulgarian and English, with data held in line with the GDPR.
We manage exits with the correct notice, documented grounds, and where applicable statutory compensation, then settle final pay, accrued leave, and the deregistration filings the authorities require.
| Criteria | Employer of Record (Komp) | Own Bulgarian Entity |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited for | Market entry, small to mid-sized teams, fast expansion, remote or hybrid roles | Large, permanent Bulgarian operations such as a development center or shared-services hub |
| Time to hire | As soon as the candidate accepts, no incorporation needed | Incorporation, banking, revenue authority registration, and accident-fund classification must be completed first |
| Upfront cost | No setup cost; predictable per-employee fee | Registration, legal, accounting, and payroll setup costs |
| Compliance ownership | Managed by Komp with AI-assisted monitoring and human review | Your responsibility, including contract registration, contribution rates, and monthly declarations |
| Flexibility | Scale up or down with minimal commitment | Closing a Bulgarian company takes time and professional support |
| Legal presence | Not required, Komp is the legal employer | Full Bulgarian company with management duties, filings, and annual accounts |
| Workforce visibility | Bulgarian data unified with your global workforce in one platform | Often a separate local system and vendor |
Place your first European hires in one of the EU’s most cost-effective markets without tying up capital in a subsidiary and validate demand before you commit.
Hire software engineering, QA, data, and DevOps talent in Sofia and Plovdiv, where a mature outsourcing sector has built deep technical capability at competitive cost.
Build multilingual support, finance, and back-office teams using Bulgaria’s pool of English, German, French, and Russian speakers.
Use Bulgaria as an EU delivery base with full single-market access, time-zone alignment, and salary levels well below Western Europe.
Convert long-standing civil-law or freelance engagements onto compliant employment where the working relationship warrants it.
Get a consistent employee experience, predictable costs, consolidated invoicing, owned payment rails with zero FX markup, and audit-ready records for every Bulgarian hire.
Many providers can put a Bulgarian employee on payroll. Komp is built as workforce infrastructure, combining AI intelligence, owned payment rails, and human governance so you can grow in Bulgaria with confidence.
Autonomous agents continuously check payroll, classification, contracts, and regulatory change. Recommendations are surfaced for review before anything is executed: autonomous intelligence, human control.
Our jurisdiction-based rules engine analyzes 50+ risk factors to help you decide whether a Bulgarian worker should be engaged under a civil contract or an employment contract, with audit-ready documentation behind every decision.
Komp PayOps runs on owned infrastructure with 135+ currencies, transparent flat fees, and no FX markups. With Bulgaria now inside the eurozone, paying Bulgarian salaries from a euro budget carries no conversion cost at all.
Komp Activate, Komp Workforce, Komp TimeOps, and Komp PayOps connect hiring, workforce records, time, and pay across Bulgaria and 150+ countries.
AES-256 encryption, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR compliance, role-based access control, and AWS hosting with multi-region redundancy protect your Bulgarian employee data.
Live dashboards for payroll status, fully loaded employment costs, leave balances, and compliance alerts, with exportable reports for Finance, HR, and audit.
Bulgaria combines EU and eurozone membership with a skilled technical workforce, the lowest flat income tax rate in the European Union, and costs well below Western European averages. An EOR makes entering it faster, safer, and lighter on overhead.
Forming a Bulgarian company means registration, banking, revenue authority enrolment, and sector classification before anyone can be paid. With Komp, you can make offers and onboard without waiting for any of it.
Contracts must be registered before work begins, salary must be paid at least twice a month, and declarations are monthly. Komp keeps contracts, calculations, and filings current.
Employer social security varies by sector band, and contributions stop at a monthly ceiling on insurable income. That combination makes Bulgarian employer cost unusually favorable for senior roles, but only if it is modelled correctly. Komp makes the fully loaded number visible before you make an offer.
Correct payslips, contributions filed on time, twice-monthly salary handled properly, and support in Bulgarian all signal a serious employer, and shape whether strong candidates accept and stay.
See Bulgarian headcount, costs, and compliance in the same platform as the rest of your global workforce. No separate vendor, no data silos.
Bulgarian employers answer to the National Revenue Agency for payroll taxes and contributions, to the National Social Security Institute for benefits, and to the labor inspectorate for working conditions and contract registration. These are the areas that matter most, and how Komp covers them.
Contracts must be in writing and registered with the revenue authority before the employee starts work, which is a hard precondition rather than an administrative follow-up. Contracts must state the job position and its national classification code, salary, working time, leave, and notice.
The national minimum wage is €620.20 per month, or €3.74 per hour, from 1 January 2026, following a 12.6% increase. Salary must be paid at least twice a month, which catches out employers used to a single monthly run.
Bulgaria applies a flat 10% rate to employment income, with no bands and no personal allowance. It is the lowest headline personal income tax rate in the European Union, and it applies equally to junior and senior salaries.
Employees contribute 13.78% of insurable income. Employers contribute roughly 18.9% to 19.6%, with the variation driven by the accident-at-work fund band, which runs from 0.4% to 1.1% depending on the employer’s registered activity. Confirming the correct band before the first payroll run matters.
Unlike most European systems, Bulgarian social security contributions stop at a monthly ceiling on insurable income, which stood at €2,111.64 pending the 2026 state budget. Earnings above that carry income tax but no further contributions, which materially reduces employer cost on senior salaries.
Employers file a per-employee declaration and a totals declaration with the revenue authority, with withheld tax and contributions due by the 25th of the following month. Late or inaccurate filings attract interest and penalties.
Employees are entitled to a minimum of 20 working days of paid annual leave, available after four months of service, alongside 15 public holidays. Many employers offer more leave as a competitive differentiator.
The employer funds the first three working days of sickness absence at 70% of gross pay, after which the state sickness benefit applies. Maternity leave runs to 410 days, largely funded through social security, with a mandatory portion around the birth.
Probation can run up to six months. The statutory minimum notice for indefinite contracts is 30 days, and contracts commonly extend this by agreement. Termination must rest on grounds set out in the Labor Code, and compensation may be payable depending on the route taken.
Engaging someone under a civil contract when the relationship is in substance employment can trigger reclassification, retroactive contributions, and penalties. Employee data is processed under the GDPR and Bulgarian implementing law.
Bulgarian talent is concentrated in a handful of city regions, each with its own sector profile and salary expectations. Komp lets you hire compliantly in any of them, with the same payroll, contribution, and compliance workflows everywhere.
The capital and the center of Bulgaria’s technology, outsourcing, and international business activity, with the deepest pool of software engineering, product, finance, and multilingual commercial talent, and the highest salary levels in the country.
The second city and a growing technology and manufacturing hub, with a strong engineering pipeline and salary expectations below Sofia for comparable roles.
The Black Sea economic center, strong in software development, maritime and logistics services, and customer operations, with a growing remote-work population.
A coastal hub with strengths in energy, logistics, and shared services, offering competitive costs and an expanding technology sector.
A northern industrial and logistics corridor with close links to Romania and Central Europe, well suited to manufacturing support, engineering, and cross-border operations roles.
It is a locally registered company that legally employs workers in Bulgaria on your behalf, taking responsibility for contracts, payroll, income tax, social security, health insurance, benefits, and compliance. You direct the employee’s work; the EOR carries the employer obligations, so you can hire without a Bulgarian entity.
No. With Komp as your Employer of Record, you can hire anywhere in Bulgaria without incorporating an OOD or EOOD, registering with the commercial register, or registering as an employer with the National Revenue Agency.
Yes. Bulgaria adopted the euro on 1 January 2026 at the fixed rate of 1.95583 lev to the euro, and the euro became sole legal tender from 1 February 2026. Salaries, contracts, and payroll all run in euro, and paying a Bulgarian employee from a euro budget carries no conversion cost.
Because Komp already has the legal and payroll infrastructure in place, onboarding can begin as soon as your candidate accepts. One Bulgarian specific applies: the employment contract must be registered with the revenue authority before the employee starts work, and Komp handles that within the statutory window.
Employer social security runs between roughly 18.9% and 19.6% of insurable income, with the variation driven by the accident-at-work fund band for your sector. Contributions stop at a monthly ceiling on insurable income, so employer cost on senior salaries is proportionally lower than in most of Europe. Komp shows the fully loaded figure per hire before you commit.
The national minimum wage is €620.20 per month, or €3.74 per hour, from 1 January 2026. The figure is reset annually alongside the state budget, and Komp updates payroll and contracts automatically.
Bulgaria applies a flat 10% rate to employment income, with no bands and no personal allowance. It is the lowest headline personal income tax rate in the European Union, which is a meaningful factor in net pay when benchmarking offers against other EU markets.
Because the accident-at-work fund component is set by the employer’s registered economic activity and ranges from 0.4% to 1.1%. Getting the classification wrong means underpaying contributions and facing retroactive correction, so Komp confirms the band before your first payroll run.
Employees are entitled to a minimum of 20 working days of paid annual leave, available after four months of service, alongside 15 public holidays. Many employers offer more, and additional leave is a common differentiator in competitive technology roles.
The employer pays the first three working days of sickness absence at 70% of gross salary, after which the state sickness benefit takes over. Komp manages the payments, the documentation, and the handover.
The statutory minimum notice for an indefinite contract is 30 days, and contracts frequently extend this by agreement. Probation can run up to six months. Termination must rest on grounds set out in the Labor Code, and Komp manages the route, the process, and the final settlement.
Yes. Where someone engaged under a civil contract is working in substance as an employee, Komp assesses the relationship, documents the basis for the change, and moves the person onto a compliant employment contract with the correct contribution and leave treatment.
Yes. EU and EEA nationals can work freely, and Komp supports the residence and work authorization process for third-country nationals, ensuring permission is in place before employment starts.
Komp is SOC 2 Type II certified, ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant, uses AES-256 encryption with role-based access control, and is hosted on AWS with multi-region redundancy.
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