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Cameroon payroll: frequently asked questions
It means handing gross-to-net calculation, statutory withholding, and monthly filing to a specialist so your team does not have to master Cameroon’s PAYE and CNPS rules. A provider computes IRPP (personal income tax) plus the Additional Council Tax surcharge, deducts CNPS and Crédit Foncier contributions, pays net salaries in XAF, and remits declarations to the Direction Générale des Impôts (DGI) and CNPS by the 15th of the following month. Because Cameroon sits in the OHADA/CEMAC legal space and is partly bilingual, contracts and payslips are typically handled in French and English.
IRPP is deducted at source each month on a progressive scale of 10%, 15%, 25%, 35% and 38.5% on annual taxable bands, with a 10% Additional Council Tax (Centimes Additionnels Communaux, CAC) applied on top of the tax due (2026, per DGI/impots.cm and PwC). PwC states the combined bands as 11%, 16.5%, 27.5% and 38.5% on net income once the CAC is folded in. The employer withholds and remits IRPP plus CAC to the DGI monthly, by the 15th of the following month.
Employers and employees each pay 4.2% for the old-age pension branch, and the employer alone funds family allowances at about 7% (general scheme) and occupational-risk insurance at 1.75% to 5% depending on the industry risk classification (2026, per CNPS/cnps.cm and PwC). The pension branch is capped at monthly insurable earnings of XAF 750,000, so the maximum monthly employee pension contribution is about XAF 31,500. Employers must register new hires with CNPS within eight days and declare contributions monthly.
Beyond IRPP, a 10% Additional Council Tax (CAC) is layered on the income tax, and the Crédit Foncier du Cameroun (CFC) housing fund takes 1.5% from the employer and 1% from the employee (2026, per PwC). A CRTV audiovisual royalty (RAV) is withheld on a fixed scale by salary band, reaching a maximum of XAF 13,000 per month for gross pay above XAF 1,000,000. The employer also pays 1% to the National Employment Fund (FNE).
On top of gross salary, employers typically carry CNPS pension at 4.2%, family allowances around 7%, occupational-risk cover of 1.75% to 5%, plus CFC housing at 1.5% and FNE at 1% (2026). That places the total employer statutory on-cost roughly in the 14% to 18% range of payroll, before the risk classification is confirmed. Employers also remit the employee-side deductions (IRPP + CAC, CNPS 4.2%, CFC 1%, RAV) that are withheld from staff pay.
Running your own payroll requires a registered local entity in Cameroon plus DGI tax and CNPS employer registrations, which takes time to establish in Douala or Yaounde. An Employer of Record (EOR) lets you hire and pay staff compliantly without incorporating, because the EOR is the legal employer of record and handles OHADA/CEMAC-compliant contracts, IRPP and CNPS filings, and net pay in XAF. This is usually the fastest route for testing the market or hiring a small team.