What do you need to know about employing in Denmark?
Questions about Denmark are rarely generic. Can a salaried employee on long-term sick leave be let go under the 120-day rule? Will a candidate from outside the EU clear the DKK 552,000 Pay Limit threshold? How much of the 1% holiday supplement falls due in May? Send yours through the form and an account manager replies with an answer for your case.
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- A written reply with figures for your case
- No obligation to sign anything afterwards
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Why do companies abroad trust us with Danish employment?
No Danish company is needed on your side. We sign the contract as employer and report to Skattestyrelsen under our name each month. Finding and choosing the person stays with you.
Fit for small teams
A team of one to a few people in Denmark can stay with us for years. That spares you running a Danish company for a handful of staff, and moving to your own ApS stays open.
Fee plus levies at cost
Fees for Danish staff begin from €599 per employee per month, set by role and scope. Salary and the statutory levies (ATP, AUB, Barsel.dk, AES and the financing contribution) are passed on at cost; in our 2026 Copenhagen example they added DKK 8,202 to DKK 666,600 of gross pay.
Payslip mechanics
The mechanics behind a Danish payslip: the tax card’s withholding rate and monthly allowance, 8% AM-bidrag deducted before income tax, ATP shared two-thirds employer and one-third employee, quarterly Samlet Betaling levies, holiday earned at 2.08 days a month in a September to August year, the 1% supplement paid in May and August, and sickness benefit refunds after the 30-day employer period. We run all of it.
Typical questions
Typical ones: can we use the 120-day rule, how much notice does a three-year employee get, does this salary meet the Pay Limit Scheme, what does a non-compete cost under the Employment Clauses Act, and how is untaken holiday paid when someone leaves?
The same contact every time
Your account manager stays with your account, so the person who set up the contract also answers questions about the employee’s leave, pay changes and eventual exit.
Shaped to each employee
Net pay depends on the person: the municipality they live in (for 2026, Copenhagen 23.39%, Aarhus 24.52%, Odense 25.50%), church membership, and whether they are new to Danish tax. A hire with no Danish tax liability in the past 10 years earning at least DKK 65,400 a month may qualify for the 27% researcher tax scheme. We check each case.
Day to day with EOR Denmark
- A costed offer in DKK before you commit to a hire
- Contracts and written terms prepared under Danish law
- Monthly payroll you approve before it is reported
- One invoice and one account manager
Danish HR, without the headcount
Who answers HR questions for a Danish hire?
A global HR platform can store a contract; it cannot tell you whether a September start changes holiday planning, or how the 120-day rule must be worded in a contract to be usable. We answer those questions for your Danish employees, with the statute behind each answer.
Your managers deal with one account manager. Your employees get answers on pay, holiday and leave from the same team that runs their payroll.
- HR questions answered in plain English
- Employee queries on payslips and holiday handled for you
Ready when your hire is
We can employ your chosen candidate in Denmark without you forming an ApS or registering as a Danish employer.
Give us the role and the planned salary. Back come the yearly employer cost in DKK, our euro fee and a checklist of what has to happen before the first working day.
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