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Sierra Leone HR & Payroll Software — Sierra Leonean Leone Payslips, PAYE & NASSIT

Sierra Leone's Leone is back to one currency unit — SmartHR adjusted overnight. Run Freetown or Bo team payroll with PAYE to NRA, NASSIT contributions, and English payslips that match the new denomination cleanly.

Income Tax: PAYE (up to 30%) Social Security: NASSIT
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What we hear from HR teams in Sierra Leone

If any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place.

The recurring conversations we have with HR, finance and operations leaders in Sierra Leone. SmartHR Africa was built to retire each of them.

Your payroll lives in a spreadsheet on someone's laptop. Hundreds of SLL entries every cycle, manual PAYE & NASSIT calculations, no audit trail. Month-end is the same scramble every time.

When the Sierra Leone gazette changes a statutory rate, you find out from your accountant — three weeks late, after one payroll cycle has already gone wrong and a refund correction is needed.

Staff outside Freetown — branch, site, field, remote — clock in on paper or via WhatsApp. The data arrives after payroll cutoff. You pay based on what your supervisors think happened, not what actually did.

Statutory filings are a manual export each month. Your finance team rebuilds the same return from the same spreadsheet, every month, because nothing carries forward and nothing reconciles automatically.

Your employees cannot see their Sierra Leonean Leone payslip, request leave, or update their own details without emailing HR. HR spends half their week on data-entry work the employee could do from their phone.

When an auditor, board member or donor asks for last quarter's payroll cost by cost centre, you owe a 24-hour answer. It takes a week of rebuilding from emails, exports and a spreadsheet nobody fully trusts.

Sierra Leone Statutory Compliance — Fully Automated

SmartHR Africa calculates every statutory deduction on every payroll run. No spreadsheets, no manual lookups, no compliance risk.

NASSIT (National Social Security & Insurance Trust)

percentage

Employee + Employer

PAYE

progressive bands

Employee
Income Tax: PAYE (up to 30%)
Social Security: NASSIT
Monthly filing calendar

Sierra Leone statutory deadlines, every month.

Typical due day of the month following the payroll cycle. SmartHR Africa generates the return file and reminds your finance team before each cut-off — no missed deadlines, no late-filing penalties.

15 of next month

PAYE

NRA

15 of next month

NASSIT

NASSIT

Deadlines drift when the date falls on a weekend or public holiday; the legal cut-off is usually the next working day. Always verify the current month with the authority — and let SmartHR Africa do the filing reminder, the calculation, and the return file for you.

Sierra Leone Salary Calculator 2026

Calculate take-home pay and all statutory deductions. Free, no sign-up required.

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Monthly gross before deductions

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Breakdown

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Total Deductions - Le
Take-Home Pay Le
Total Employer Cost Le

Based on the latest Sierra Leone statutory rates we maintain in SmartHR. For payroll exact to the cent — including allowances, reliefs and overtime — talk to our Sierra Leone payroll team.

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SmartHR Sierra Leone Pricing

Local prices in SLL (Le) — rates locked for May 2026

Starter

Up to 25 employees

Le245,739 /month base

≈ $10.00 USD/month

+ Le12,287 /employee/month

≈ $0.50 USD/employee

See full pricing
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Professional

Up to 250 employees

Le1,228,693 /month base

≈ $50.00 USD/month

+ Le36,861 /employee/month

≈ $1.50 USD/employee

See full pricing

Business

Unlimited employees

Le2,457,385 /month base

≈ $100.00 USD/month

+ Le73,722 /employee/month

≈ $3.00 USD/employee

See full pricing

Operating in multiple countries? Request a multi-country quote →

Frequently Asked Questions

All 54 African countries are supported on the platform — including the smaller markets that most HR vendors skip (São Tomé, Eritrea, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, South Sudan). Statutory rules are maintained centrally for each country, so updates to PAYE bands or social-security rates roll out per country without affecting your other markets.

Pricing is set in USD per employee per month and pinned at the start of each calendar month for currency conversion. Your local-currency price shows on every country page; HQ sees the consolidated USD view. There is no per-country setup fee and no per-module upsell — the same plan unlocks the same features everywhere.

Yes. Each country runs its own statutory engine and pay calendar; HQ sees a consolidated headcount and cost view across every market. Country data is isolated at the database query layer — a Kenya HR user (even via the API) cannot retrieve a Nigeria payroll record. See /solutions/multi-country for the full breakdown.

Statutory rates are maintained centrally in the platform — Kenya PAYE, SHIF, NSSF, Housing Levy; South Africa PAYE, UIF, SDL; Nigeria PAYE per state, Pension Reform Act contributions, NHF; and equivalents for every African country. When a gazette publishes a change, the new rate is applied within days, not weeks — and only to that country, leaving every other country untouched.

Yes — directly into M-PESA (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique), MTN Mobile Money (Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana), Airtel Money, Orange Money (francophone West Africa), Tigo Pesa, and Wave. The payroll system picks the right rail per employee profile and falls back to bank transfer where needed. See our mobile money payroll guide for the comparison across rails.

Typical single-country onboarding is 4–6 weeks from kick-off to first live payroll cycle. Multi-country rollouts run 6–8 weeks with the first two countries piloted, then phased rollout for the rest. See the 90-day migration playbook for the week-by-week detail.

Yes — the employee self-service app (iOS, Android, and a mobile web version) lets staff view payslips, apply for leave, submit expense claims, clock in with GPS, and submit timesheets. It works offline at field sites and syncs when connectivity returns. For workers without smartphones, USSD short codes cover attendance and basic self-service on any feature phone.

The admin and employee interfaces are available in English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Swahili, and Amharic. Country-specific contract templates, statutory forms, and payslips are localised to each country's official language(s). Additional languages are added on request for enterprise deployments.

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