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HR & Payroll for Bahamas
Bahamas HR and payroll. Every location connected.
A Canadian-owned platform, proven at Cable Bahamas and Island Luck. Connect HR, timekeeping and Bahamian payroll across your locations on one employee record.
Workzoom connects Bahamas HR and payroll with timekeeping across your locations. Cable Bahamas reduced payroll processing from five days to one and a half. All four suites cost US$16 per employee per month, with a US$700 monthly minimum and implementation, migration, training and support included.
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Cable Bahamas reduced payroll processing from five days to one and a half for 850 employees. Island Luck runs eight payrolls a week across more than 60 locations. Employee details, time and payroll share one record. Your team reviews and submits the NIB reports and uploads the configured bank file to your own bank.
Statutory rates verified Jul 3, 2026 against the issuing authority.
Live on Workzoom across Bahamas. HR and payroll.
The platform
Four suites.Built for Bahamian employers.
Every employee record. Every island. One system.
Centralized HR for businesses operating across Nassau, Freeport, Grand Bahama, and the Family Islands. Digital employee files, org structure, and compliance documentation built for the Bahamas.
- Centralized employee records with document storage
- Organizational charts and reporting hierarchies
- Custom fields for local certifications and requirements
- Complete audit trail for compliance documentation
Staff in Nassau, operations on Grand Bahama, teams across the Family Islands. See your entire workforce from one dashboard regardless of where they work.
Know who's working. Right now. Every location.
Build schedules, track time, manage leave requests across multiple sites. Real-time visibility into attendance across every shift and department, with biometric clock-in options for high-volume operations.
- Scheduling with shift coverage and availability tracking
- Time clocking via web, mobile, or biometric devices
- Leave management with balance tracking
- Overtime visibility before it impacts payroll
Island Luck connects timekeeping and payroll across more than 60 locations. Its published story covers facial recognition clocks and eight payrolls a week.
NIB calculated automatically. Multi-island payroll from one system.
Calculate employer and employee NIB contributions from payroll data. Generate C10 reports for your team to review and submit, alongside the configured bank file for your approved pay run.
- Automated employer and employee NIB contributions
- C10 reporting from payroll data
- Bank-file generation, format confirmed during implementation
- Employee self-service pay stubs
Cable Bahamas reduced payroll processing from five days to one and a half for 850 employees. Three payroll staff manage the process in Workzoom.
Develop the team that develops your business
Track certifications, run performance reviews, plan succession. The documentation you need to build capability, retain talent, and demonstrate compliance across your organization.
- Training records linked to employee profiles
- Certification tracking with expiry alerts
- Performance reviews with goal alignment
- Succession planning and talent assessment
Food handler permits, safety certifications, professional licenses. Get alerts before they expire so your team stays compliant and job-ready, across every island.
Inside the platform
What Bahamian employers run on Workzoom.
Employee self-service, admin dashboards, timesheets, and reports.
Admin Dashboard
Joiners, terminations, movers and leaves at a glance, with the Workforce, Payroll and Talent suites on one home screen.
Organization Chart
The chart maps positions, not people. When someone leaves, the role stays in place along with the certifications and compliance requirements attached to it. Reorganizations stop being chaos.
Timekeeping
Employees clock in from the web, their phone, or a biometric device. Hours flow straight into payroll with overtime already calculated, so the pay run runs without surprises.
Leave Management
Requests come in from a phone, managers approve in a tap, and balances update everywhere at once.
Payroll Financial Reports
Bank transmissions and pay disbursements by department sit in one financial view, built for the way finance teams actually audit.
Benefits Administration
The moment someone enrolls, deductions are already wired into payroll.
Results
What results have Bahamian businesses seen with Workzoom?
Published customer stories from Cable Bahamas and Island Luck show the workflows and outcomes behind the platform.
“What used to take us a full week now takes a day and a half. Workzoom has completely transformed how we manage HR and payroll.”
Shanika Pinder, Compensation & Payroll Supervisor and HR Business Partner, Cable Bahamas
Which Bahamian banks does Workzoom support for direct deposit?
Workzoom generates your payroll bank file, with the format confirmed and configured during implementation. Your team reviews the pay run and uploads the file to your own bank. The bank processes the payment; Workzoom does not hold or move payroll funds.
- RBC Royal Bank
- Scotiabank
- CIBC FirstCaribbean
- Commonwealth Bank
- Fidelity Bank
- Bank of The Bahamas
Have a bank not listed here, or one with custom file requirements? Tell us your bank and we will confirm the setup before your first pay run.
Resources
Everything for Bahamas in one place.
Compliance deep-dives, free calculators, and per-industry guides for Bahamian HR and payroll teams.
Compliance
Every statutory deduction, explained.
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Implementation
Bahamas go-lives.Most in four to twelve weeks.
Most teams go live in four to twelve weeks. Larger or more complex rollouts, think 500-plus employees, multiple entities or pay groups, or a full payroll migration, typically run twelve to thirty-six weeks. Payroll goes live first, then HR, scheduling, and talent phase in behind it.
Discovery and kickoff
We map your payroll, time, and HR workflows, import employees, and lock tax setup and pay groups. Clean, exportable data here is the single biggest accelerator.
Configure
Earnings, deductions, leave policies, schedules, and compliance alerts built into your tenant. We verify every calculation with your team.
Parallel run
Live payroll runs side by side with your current system. One or two pay cycles reconciled. Gaps fixed before cutover, not after.
Payroll live
First production pay run on Workzoom. Employee self-service opens. HR, scheduling, and talent modules phase in over the following quarters.
Do
- Define your org structure clearly, the clearer the faster
- Hand over a clean Excel export of all employee records
- Decide how you want your workflows to look
- Order your time clocks at kickoff so they ship in time
- Attend the working sessions you schedule
- Use Workzoom between sessions, not only in meetings
Don't
- Turnover on your project team mid-implementation
- Key people on vacation during setup
- Employee data stuck in a legacy system or on paper
- Leaving your org structure or workflows undefined
Between sessions, your implementation specialist builds your setup from what each meeting decides, so the more your team defines up front, the faster you go live.
How it works
What running payroll in the Bahamas actually requires
NIB compliance, multi-island operations, and regulated workforce management all make specific demands of the system behind the payroll run. Here is what Workzoom's architecture handles so your team does not have to.
Single database. No sync required.
HR, Workforce, Payroll, and Talent share one employee record. When a rate changes in HR, payroll reads it immediately. There is no sync job between modules, no export to a separate payroll system, and no reconciliation step between timekeeping and pay.
Date-effective NIB corrections.
Every record is date-stamped. When NIB insurable earnings ceilings change or a backdated salary adjustment needs to flow into a prior period, the system applies the correct rate automatically. No recalculating affected pay periods in a spreadsheet.
Position-based management for multi-island employers.
Positions exist independently of the people filling them. When a role is vacant, it stays in the org chart. Compliance training requirements, Gaming Board certifications, and security clearance levels attach to the position, not just the individual.
Compliance alerts built into the platform.
Credential expiry, license renewal deadlines, and training completion requirements are tracked by position. Managers get alerts before certifications lapse. No spreadsheet to check, no calendar reminders to set.
Data hosted in Canada, governed by Canadian law.
By default your data is hosted on AWS in Montreal, operated by Nortek Solutions Inc. (Workzoom's parent company), and Canadian federal privacy law governs. United States hosting is available if you prefer it. There are no third-country data transfers unless you operate in those countries.
Rules engine for NIB, overtime, and compliance policies.
The platform encodes NIB insurable earnings ceilings, overtime thresholds, statutory deduction sequences, and holiday entitlement rules. Policy changes propagate to every affected employee automatically.
In the Bahamas
Working with Bahamian employers since 2021.
Client visits, shared learning and a continuing place in the local HR conversation.
Client visits
Relationships that continue after go-live.
Our team meets Bahamian HR and payroll teams in person, alongside the ongoing work of running their people operations.
Cable Bahamas has worked with Workzoom since December 2021. Island Luck chose Workzoom in February 2024. Their published stories show what changed for the teams running payroll.
Hear local perspectives in the March 2025 Bahamas Summit and our April 2026 retention webinar with Denise Knowles of SHRM Bahamas.
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Meet us at BSHRM 2026 Conference.
After sponsoring THRIVE 2025 in Nassau, Workzoom returns as a Platinum sponsor in 2026.
October 22-23, 2026
Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas
Statutory rates 2026
Statutory payroll rates for Bahamas
Current employee and employer contribution rates, ceilings, and thresholds set by the issuing authority. Workzoom configures and maintains these rates in the platform, reviewed quarterly and on every statutory change, so payroll runs use the current values.
| Contribution | Rate | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bahamas NIB employee contribution | 4.65% | National Insurance Board | Ceiling: B$830 weekly (effective July 1, 2026; was B$810) |
| Bahamas NIB employer contribution | 6.65% | National Insurance Board | |
| Bahamas NIB combined contribution | 11.3% | National Insurance Board |
Verified May 20, 2026 against the issuing authority for each line. Rates change. If you spot a discrepancy, contact us and we will update within one business day.
Compliance
How does Workzoom handle Bahamas payroll compliance?
Workzoom stays current with Bahamas's payroll, tax, and employment regulations so you don't have to.
Compliance proof
Named authorities, and exactly what Workzoom does for each.
Workzoom calculates and generates natively; your team reviews and submits. Here is where that line sits for each Bahamian authority and rule set.
National Insurance Board (NIB)
Workzoom calculates NIB natively on every pay run: 6.65% employer and 4.65% employee on insurable earnings up to the B$830 weekly ceiling (effective July 1, 2026). The C10 contribution statement is generated from the payroll register. Your team reviews and submits them to NIB.
Ministry of Labour
You configure your overtime, public holiday, and leave policies to the Employment Act standards the Ministry of Labour oversees: time-and-a-half beyond 8 hours a day or 40 a week, double time on public holidays and rest days. Workzoom applies those rules on every timesheet and every pay run.
Public holiday calendar
The Bahamas observes 11 public holidays a year. You load them into your pay calendar once, and Workzoom applies your configured holiday premiums and scheduling rules wherever those dates land, across Nassau, Freeport, Grand Bahama, and the Family Islands.
Bank deposit files
On approval, Workzoom generates the direct deposit file formatted for RBC Royal Bank, Scotiabank, CIBC FirstCaribbean, Commonwealth Bank, Fidelity Bank, and Bank of The Bahamas. You upload it to your own bank and funds settle on your bank's schedule. Workzoom never holds, pools, or impounds payroll money.
Events · Bahamas
Where Workzoom shows up in Bahamas.
SHRM panels, customer roundtables, and Caribbean HR sessions. Watch a past recording or register for what's next.
BSHRM · Platinum Sponsor
BSHRM 2026 Conference
Hosted by BSHRM · Workzoom Platinum Sponsor · Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas
Book a meeting
The HR Horizon · Live webinar
Performance Management That Holds Up: A Playbook for HR and Business Leaders
Mellissa Lezama, Founder and CEO, The HR Horizon · Matthew Woolley, Workzoom
Register free on Teams
SHRM Bahamas
Employee Retention Strategy: Building a Workforce That Stays
- Denise Knowles PwC · SHRM Bahamas President
- Andy Woolley Workzoom CEO
SHRM Bahamas
SHRM Bahamas THRIVE Conference & Expo 2025
- SHRM Bahamas Host organization
- Andy Woolley Workzoom · Speaking at THRIVE 2025
Mastering HR & Payroll Management: Workzoom Bahamas Summit
- Andy Woolley Workzoom CEO · Speaking in Nassau
- Baha Mar, Nassau
People Management Made Simple: Caribbean Webinar
- Shanika Pinder Compensation & Payroll Supervisor and HR Business Partner · Cable Bahamas
- Steven Kuhn Workzoom
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Field notes.For Bahamian HR and payroll.
Compliance guides, workforce insights, and practical advice written for Bahamian employers.
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Bring one pay schedule and the steps between clock-in and payday. See how approved hours reach payroll, review the NIB and bank outputs, and confirm implementation, support and USD pricing.
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FAQ
Questions about the Bahamas
Specifics on running HR and payroll in the Bahamas with Workzoom.