Social Security Board
Employer and employee contributions, calculated automatically and shown on the payslip.
TropicHR
Payroll Software for Antigua and Barbuda
No personal income tax in Antigua and Barbuda - Social Security, Medical Benefits and Education Levy contributions calculated automatically.
Antigua and Barbuda has no personal income tax, but payroll still carries real statutory weight: Social Security Board contributions, Medical Benefits Scheme contributions and an Education Levy all apply. TropicHR calculates all three automatically from a territory-specific rule set and shows the working on every payslip line.
Antigua and Barbuda
No income tax – three obligations instead.
Rules are territory-aware, versioned data rather than hard-coded logic, so an update is a data change, not a software release.
Medical Benefits Scheme
Employer and employee contributions, calculated automatically.
Education Levy
Calculated on the applicable earnings above the exempt threshold.
A full calculation trace
Every statutory line on every payslip shows the base and rate used to produce it – not just a final number.
Beyond statutory
Built for OECS payroll operations.
Weekly, fortnightly, semi-monthly or monthly pay groups, a two-person approval on every run, payslip PDFs and a bank payment file from the same approved record, and an immutable, field-level audit log. Accounting firms and payroll bureaus can run several client companies from one workspace with strict separation between each.
Questions
Common questions about payroll in Antigua and Barbuda.
Does Antigua and Barbuda payroll need income tax calculated?
No – Antigua and Barbuda has no personal income tax. TropicHR calculates Social Security Board, Medical Benefits Scheme and Education Levy contributions instead.
Can employees see their own payslips?
Yes, through a separate self-service portal that also shows year-end certificates, timesheets and leave requests.
Can I migrate from my current payroll provider?
Yes. Import your history and run a parallel period alongside your existing system – a reconciliation report compares every employee before you switch over.
Does TropicHR support weekly, fortnightly, semi-monthly and monthly pay?
Yes, a pay group can run on any of those schedules, and an employee’s compensation basis is handled independently of how often their pay group runs.
Get started
Run your next Antigua and Barbuda payroll with TropicHR.
Essentials starts at US$39 a month for up to 10 employees.