Payroll
Payroll services in Cyprus — handled properly, on time, every month.
OneJar runs payroll for Cyprus businesses and international companies with Cyprus operations. Monthly PAYE, Social Insurance and GHS submissions, year-end TD63/TD7 forms, statutory leave management — delivered by a team that knows Cyprus payroll inside out.
What's covered
What payroll outsourcing covers
Payroll is more than running a monthly calculation. Done properly in Cyprus, it includes the full monthly cycle, statutory submissions, year-end reporting, and the administrative work that surrounds employee compensation.
Monthly payroll processing
Salary calculation, deductions, allowances, bonuses, expense reimbursements. Employees paid accurately, on the agreed pay date, every month.
Statutory submissions
PAYE income tax, Social Insurance, GHS/GESY, Social Cohesion Fund, Redundancy Fund and HRDA — filed on time, every cycle.
Year-end reporting
TD63 certificates issued to each employee, TD7 employer annual return filed with the Tax Department. Audit-ready documentation maintained.
Leave administration
Annual leave accruals, sick leave, statutory leave (maternity, paternity, parental), and 13th-salary calculations where applicable.
Payments & reconciliations
Bank payment file generation, payroll-to-GL reconciliation, payslip distribution and employee queries.
Cyprus-specific exits
Final settlements, severance under the Termination of Employment Law, end-of-employment documentation.
Why it's hard
Why Cyprus payroll needs specialist hands
Cyprus payroll is more complex than most people realise — and the consequences of getting it wrong are immediate.
The framework keeps moving
Employer-side contributions run to roughly 15.4% of gross, split across five funds. Rates and annual caps change — the Social Insurance cap was €66,612 for 2025, with the 2026 figure published by the Ministry of Labour.
The forms matter
TD63 certificates to each employee at year-end and the TD7 annual employer return each carry specific data, formatting and deadline requirements. Errors get flagged; corrections take months.
Statutory leave is layered
Annual, sick, maternity, paternity, parental leave and the expected 13th salary all interact differently with payroll — exactly where fragmented setups start going wrong.
Disputes are expensive
The Department of Labour Relations resolves payroll disagreements over months, often hinging on documentation that should have been kept from day one. Good payroll is documentation insurance.
How we run it
How OneJar handles payroll
Payroll is one of the highest-frequency, lowest-tolerance functions in HR. Done well, it's invisible. OneJar runs it through a structured monthly cycle, on a proper HRIS, with named people who own the work.
The monthly cycle
A fixed cadence every period: variables confirmed by cut-off, calculations run and quality-checked, payslips generated, statutory submissions filed, bank files issued for approval, payments on the agreed date.
The platform
Client payroll runs through OrangeHRM — OneJar is the exclusive Cyprus reseller — so clients get enterprise-grade HRIS as part of the engagement. Your data is yours and exports cleanly if the relationship ends.
The team
Each account is run by named payroll specialists, not a rotating ticket queue. The people who set up your payroll run it every month.
Error handling
Corrections are made in the same cycle where possible, documented and signed off. Clean records kept, employee trust maintained.
FAQ
How quickly can OneJar take over payroll from our current provider?+
Standard payroll transitions take 30–60 days, depending on company size and where you are in the cycle. We typically take over from the start of a month or quarter for a clean handover, with audit and data migration running in parallel with your existing provider's final cycle — no missed payments, no gaps.
What if our payroll has errors from before we joined OneJar?+
A common situation. We start with a payroll audit of historic submissions, employee records and statutory filings. Errors are documented and either fixed in the next cycle or escalated to a separate remediation track depending on severity. We don't inherit historic problems silently — they get surfaced and resolved.
Can OneJar handle multi-country payroll for international companies?+
Cyprus payroll is OneJar's core competence. For multi-country operations we handle the Cyprus portion to local-specialist standard and coordinate with your global provider or local specialists elsewhere. Most international clients use OneJar precisely because their global provider lacks real Cyprus depth.
What HRIS do you use, and who owns our data?+
Payroll runs through OrangeHRM, where OneJar is the exclusive Cyprus reseller. Your data lives in your own instance, owned by your company, with OneJar as data processor under GDPR. Data exports cleanly if the relationship ends, and a Data Processing Agreement is signed at engagement start.
What happens if statutory rates or rules change mid-year?+
Cyprus statutory rates update periodically. OneJar tracks these changes and updates client payroll accordingly, with notification about what changed and its impact. Compliance updates are part of the engagement, not a billable extra.