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Unemployment benefit

EUR (€)

Tax thresholds and rules (2026)

Key figures for 2026

  • Minimum wage: €620.20
  • Social security ceiling: €2,111.64 (January–July) / €2,300 (August–December)
  • Personal income tax: 10%
  • Corporate tax: 10%

Contributions, category III labour, born after 1959

Employee — 13.78%

  • Pension (State Social Security): 6.58%
  • Supplementary pension (universal fund): 2.20%
  • Sickness and maternity: 1.40%
  • Health insurance: 3.20%
  • Unemployment: 0.40%

Employer — 18.52% + accident insurance

  • Pension (State Social Security): 8.22%
  • Supplementary pension (universal fund): 2.80%
  • Sickness and maternity: 2.10%
  • Health insurance: 4.80%
  • Unemployment: 0.60%
  • Accident at work and occupational disease: 0.40% – 1.10%

Exchange rate

€1 = BGN 1.95583 The site calculates in euro only. Leva appear as a note on the statute, not as a second currency in the calculator.

Unemployment benefit

What the NSSI pays after a job

Usually 60% of your average income over 24 months, across 21 days. How many months depends on your service record. Leaving by mutual consent means the minimum, for four months.

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Unemployment benefit

60% of the daily average, with a floor and a ceiling set by the Social Security Code.

Unemployment

The benefit is 60% of average daily insurable income over the last 24 months, across 21 days.

For 2026 the daily floor is BGN 18 and the ceiling is BGN 107.14. Leaving by mutual consent means the minimum, paid for four months.

Result

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