HR and payroll software that gets Qatar right.
GRSIA contributions for Qatari nationals, end-of-service gratuity for expatriates, and WPS-ready payslips — calculated correctly on every payroll run. Built for companies operating under Qatari law, not adapted from a template built for somewhere else.
Mapped to the laws that actually govern payroll in Qatar
GRSIA contributions and end-of-service gratuity are calculated automatically — filing and remittance to each authority remains yours to complete.
Not a global tool with a currency toggle.
A dedicated Qatar compliance engine.
GRSIA, calculated for Qatari nationals
General Retirement and Social Insurance Authority contributions — 5% employee, 10% employer, on the insured wage (basic salary only, allowances excluded) up to the QAR 100,000/month ceiling — are computed automatically for every Qatari national on payroll and itemized on the payslip.
End-of-service gratuity, done by the book
For expatriate employees, ProtoHR calculates gratuity under Article 54 of Labour Law No. 14 of 2004 — a minimum of 21 days' basic salary per year of service, using daily salary = (monthly basic × 12) / 365 — and flags the nuance that service under one year owes nothing by law, even where many employers still pay pro-rata.
No income tax — one less thing to get wrong
Qatar levies no personal income tax on employment income, so there is no withholding table to maintain and no bracket to keep current. Net pay is simply gross salary less any statutory deduction that actually applies.
Payroll that speaks QAR and WPS
Qatar is a native payroll country: Qatari Riyals by default, a 1 January fiscal year, and WPS-ready payslips formatted for Qatar's Wage Protection System — alongside every statutory calculation broken out line by line.
“Is this employee a national or an expatriate” is the wrong question to be re-answering by hand every payday. It should be settled the moment you add the employee — not re-derived every month from a spreadsheet someone built two years ago.
Set an employee’s nationality status once. Every payroll run after that applies the correct GRSIA contribution or end-of-service gratuity accrual — with each figure itemized on the payslip.
No implementation partner.
No spreadsheet migration.
Set your country to Qatar
QAR becomes your default currency and your fiscal year is set to 1 January automatically.
Flag each employee's nationality status
Qatari national or expatriate — this is what determines whether GRSIA or end-of-service gratuity applies.
Run payroll
GRSIA contributions and gratuity accruals are calculated automatically, itemized on the payslip, and ready for review before disbursement.
The compliance details,
taken seriously.
Most payroll tools bolt Qatar on as an afterthought — a currency symbol and a guess at gratuity. Here is what is actually built into ProtoHR’s Qatar compliance engine.
GRSIA, employee and employer share
5% employee and 10% employer contribution on the insured wage — basic salary only, with allowances excluded, unlike UAE, Saudi, or Oman where housing is folded in — capped at QAR 100,000/month, applied only to Qatari nationals.
Article 54 gratuity, calculated correctly
Minimum 21 days' (3 weeks') basic salary per year of service for expatriate employees, with no statutory cap. Daily salary is derived as (monthly basic × 12) / 365, matching the formula used under Qatar Labour Law No. 14 of 2004.
The under-one-year nuance, handled
Employees with less than one year of service have no gratuity legally owed under Article 54 — ProtoHR reflects that by default, while still letting you configure a pro-rata payment for employers who choose to pay one anyway.
Nationals and expatriates, tracked separately
Every employee is flagged as a Qatari national or an expatriate, so the right statutory scheme — GRSIA pension or end-of-service gratuity — applies automatically instead of being decided manually at offboarding.
WPS-ready payslips
Payslips are formatted to support Qatar's Wage Protection System, so wage data is ready to feed into your bank's WPS submission process without reformatting.
A fiscal year that matches Qatar's
Payroll and reporting run on a 1 January fiscal year by default when you set your organization to Qatar, so your numbers line up with the calendar year Qatar uses.
An audit log that answers questions
Every change to a salary, a payroll run, or an employee record is recorded with who made it, when, their IP address, and the before/after values.
Tenant isolation at the database
Your company's data is separated from every other tenant by PostgreSQL row-level security — enforced at the database, not by application code remembering to filter.
Replace the spreadsheet
and the compliance guesswork.
Stop maintaining a hand-built gratuity calculator alongside a separate GRSIA tracker and a third spreadsheet for WPS submissions. ProtoHR keeps your entire Qatari workforce — and its statutory obligations — in one place.
Reserve 10 Free Seats →No credit card- ✓GRSIA for Qatari nationals
- ✓End-of-service gratuity (Art. 54)
- ✓WPS-ready payslips
- ✓QAR payroll runs
- ✓Itemized payslips
- ✓Leave policy builder
- ✓Document storage & e-signatures
- ✓Audit logs
- ✓Role-based permissions
- ✓SSO / SAML support
- ✓Multi-currency support
- ✓Employee self-service portal
Before you switch,
the honest answers.
Does ProtoHR file my GRSIA or WPS submissions on my behalf?
No — and we want to be upfront about that. ProtoHR calculates the correct GRSIA contribution and end-of-service gratuity on every pay run, and produces WPS-ready payslips, itemized and ready to hand to your accountant or filing system. Filing and remittance to GRSIA and Qatar's Wage Protection System stays with you.
Do expatriate employees get GRSIA?
No. GRSIA under Law No. 24 of 2002 applies only to Qatari nationals — expatriates, who make up the vast majority of Qatar's private-sector workforce, make no GRSIA contribution. Instead, they accrue end-of-service gratuity under Article 54 of Labour Law No. 14 of 2004, which ProtoHR calculates automatically.
Can we run payroll in QAR?
Yes. Qatar is a fully supported payroll country — QAR is the default currency, and your fiscal year defaults to 1 January.
How does gratuity work for employees with less than a year of service?
Under Article 54, no gratuity is legally owed for service under one year. ProtoHR applies that rule by default, but if your company chooses to pay a pro-rata amount anyway — as many employers do — you can configure that policy explicitly.
How is our data protected?
Each organization's data is isolated by PostgreSQL row-level security at the database layer, every sensitive change is captured in an audit log with who, when, and what changed, and access is controlled by role-based permissions with SSO/SAML support.
What does it cost?
Your first 10 employees are free, forever, with full product access. Beyond that it's a flat per-employee monthly rate with volume discounts at 51 and 101 employees — see the pricing page for exact QAR figures.
Run payroll in Qatar with confidence.
First 10 employees are free, forever. GRSIA and end-of-service gratuity calculated on every run. No credit card required.