Salary Slip Generator — Nairobi, Kenya
Salary Slip Generator for Nairobi — Corporate & Tech
Nairobi salary slips reflect Kenya's formal employment sector, with proper PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, and Housing Levy deductions. The tech and financial services sectors in Nairobi have the most structured pa...
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Nairobi salary slips reflect Kenya's formal employment sector, with proper PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, and Housing Levy deductions. The tech and financial services sectors in Nairobi have the most structured payroll systems.
A compliant Nairobi payslip starts from gross pay and shows PAYE computed on the current graduated bands — 10% on the first KSh 24,000 a month, 25% to KSh 32,333, 30% to KSh 500,000, 32.5% to KSh 800,000 and 35% above that — after subtracting the personal relief of KSh 2,400 a month. Allowable deductions such as the employee's pension contribution and the Affordable Housing Levy reduce taxable pay before PAYE is applied, and the housing-levy and post-retirement medical reliefs are then set off against the tax due.
Below PAYE, a Nairobi slip lists NSSF at 6% of pensionable pay under the tiered NSSF Act 2013 (whose upper earnings limit rises each year of the phase-in), the Social Health Insurance Fund at 2.75% of gross — the levy that replaced NHIF from 1 October 2024 — and the Affordable Housing Levy at 1.5% of gross, each shown as an employee deduction with the employer contributing its matching share. Voluntary items such as SACCO savings or loan repayments appear below the statutory lines, and net pay is usually settled by bank transfer or M-Pesa.
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A standard Nairobi salary slip shows: PAYE (10-30% graduated tax), NSSF Tier I and II contributions (6% employee, matched by the employer, on pensionable earnings up to an upper limit that rises each year of the NSSF Act 2013 phase-in), the Social Health Insurance Fund or SHIF (2.75% of gross salary, which replaced NHIF from October 2024), the Affordable Housing Levy (1.5% of gross salary, matched by the employer), and any voluntary deductions like SACCO contributions or loan repayments. Many Nairobi employers also show employer contributions to private pension schemes, group life insurance, and medical insurance premiums. The net salary is typically paid via bank transfer or M-Pesa.
PAYE uses monthly graduated bands: 10% on the first KSh 24,000, 25% on the next KSh 8,333 (to KSh 32,333), 30% up to KSh 500,000, 32.5% up to KSh 800,000 and 35% above KSh 800,000. Every resident employee gets a personal relief of KSh 2,400 a month deducted from the tax, and reliefs for the Affordable Housing Levy and post-retirement medical fund further reduce the tax. The employer deducts PAYE at source and remits it to the Kenya Revenue Authority by the 9th of the following month.
From 1 October 2024 the National Hospital Insurance Fund was replaced by the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), run by the Social Health Authority. Instead of NHIF's old graduated bands, which topped out at KSh 1,700, SHIF is charged at 2.75% of gross salary with a minimum of KSh 300, and unlike the old fund it has no upper cap. A current Nairobi payslip should therefore show a SHIF line rather than NHIF, and employers were required to migrate their deductions when the new scheme took effect.
The NSSF Act 2013, implemented from February 2024 after years of litigation, replaced the old flat contribution with a tiered scheme. Employees contribute 6% of pensionable pay, matched by the employer, split into Tier I on the lower band and Tier II above it, up to an upper earnings limit that rises in annual steps during the phase-in. Because the ceiling increases each year, the shilling amount on the payslip has grown since 2024; the slip should show the Tier I and Tier II split so the employee can see how their contribution is built up.