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HR Software for Jamaica
HR and payroll software for Jamaica: hiring, scheduling, and performance live today
HR, Workforce, and Talent run on one employee record today, with time, leave, and performance reviews built in. The Jamaica NIS calculator also shows PAYE and NHT, and the payroll engine already runs full gross-to-net in the Bahamas, Canada, and the US.
25+ years in production
Hosted in Canada on AWS
Built for TAJ · NIS · NHT
3
suites live on one employee record
HR, Workforce & Talent, live in Jamaica today
Workzoom is the platform Jamaican employers evaluate as payroll software: HR, Workforce, and Talent live today on one employee record, with JMD currency support, statutory NIS and PAYE calculators, and the Jamaica holiday calendar built in.
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The payroll engine runs full gross-to-net in the Bahamas, Canada, and the United States. If payroll and your timelines are part of your evaluation, contact us. Full gross-to-net for Jamaica is on our roadmap, and we are scoping it now with launch partners. From $4 per employee per month per suite, no setup fees, no contracts.
NIS, both sides
3%
NHT
2 / 3%
Education Tax
2.25 / 3.5%
Pay cycles
Weekly · Fortnightly · Monthly
Payroll engine
On the roadmap
Statutory rates verified Apr 28, 2026 against the issuing authority.
Our clients
The teams that run their people on Workzoom.
The platform
Four suites.Built for Jamaican employers.
Core HR suite
Every employee record. Every office. One system.
Centralized HR for Jamaican employers. Digital employee files, organizational structure, and compliance documentation on a platform proven across the Caribbean.
- Centralized employee records with document storage
- Organizational charts and reporting hierarchies
- Custom fields for Jamaican certifications and requirements
- Complete audit trail for compliance documentation
Multi-location visibility
Staff in Kingston, operations in Montego Bay, teams across parishes. See your entire workforce from one dashboard regardless of where they work.
Workforce suite
Build schedules. Track time. Manage leave.
Real-time visibility into attendance across every shift and department. Biometric clock-in options for hospitality and manufacturing operations.
- Scheduling with shift coverage and availability tracking
- Time clocking via web, mobile, or biometric devices
- Leave management with statutory entitlements
- Overtime visibility before it impacts payroll
Biometric time tracking
Facial recognition and fingerprint clocking for high-volume operations. Built to manage multi-location workforces across the Caribbean, now available for Jamaican employers.
Payroll suite
Jamaica payroll, scoped with launch partners.
HR, Workforce, and Talent are live in Jamaica today. The payroll engine runs full gross-to-net in the Bahamas, Canada, and the United States. If payroll and your timelines are part of your evaluation, contact us. Full gross-to-net for Jamaica is on our roadmap, and we are scoping it now with launch partners. Until then, Workzoom calculates pay to gross and exports time and leave data into your existing payroll.
- Pay calculated to gross, exported to your current payroll
- Jamaica NIS calculator with PAYE and NHT lines
- Full gross-to-net live in the Bahamas, Canada, and the US
- Launch partners scope PAYE, NIS, NHT, Education Tax, and HEART with us
Payroll launch partners
Full gross-to-net payroll for Jamaica is on our roadmap. Today, Workzoom calculates pay to gross and exports time and leave data straight into your existing payroll. If Jamaican payroll matters to your evaluation, join our launch partners and we will scope PAYE, NIS, NHT, Education Tax, and HEART with you before anything is promised. Talk to us about Jamaica payroll.
Talent suite
Develop the team that develops your business
Track certifications, run performance reviews, plan succession. Connected to the same employee record that drives payroll.
- Training records linked to employee profiles
- Certification tracking with expiry alerts
- Performance reviews with goal alignment
- Succession planning and talent assessment
Certification tracking
Food handler permits, safety certifications, professional licenses. Get alerts before they expire so your team stays compliant across every location.
The support team has been phenomenal through the implementation process.
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Recruitment & Engagement Manager, Non-Profit
Enables a smooth recruiting process from recruitment to departure.
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Consultant, Information Technology
Simplifies managing payroll, benefits, and compliance in one system.
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CEO and Founder, Computer Software
Gives you a helicopter view of the history of everything that happened.
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Specialist Recruiter, Media Production
Simplifies HR and payroll, making workforce management smooth.
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Senior Account Executive, Health & Wellness
Inside the platform
What Jamaican 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.
Which Jamaican banks does Workzoom support for direct deposit?
Workzoom supports the JMD currency and major Jamaican banks for direct deposit. Contact us about Jamaica payroll and your timelines. Workzoom never holds, pools, or impounds the money.
- National Commercial Bank (NCB)
- Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica
- JN Bank
- JMMB Bank
- First Global Bank
- CIBC Caribbean
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 Jamaica in one place.
Compliance deep-dives, free calculators, and per-industry guides for Jamaican HR and payroll teams.
Compliance
Every statutory deduction, explained.
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Live walkthrough
See Workzoom in 30 minutes.
Real product, real questions, no slides. Starts at $4 per employee per month, CAD or USD, with $0 setup fees.
No commitment
30 minutes
Implementation
Jamaica 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. HR, Workforce, and Talent go live first. If payroll is part of your evaluation, contact us about your timelines.
Discovery and kickoff
We map your HR, time, and workforce workflows, import employees, and set up your structure, roles, and policies. Clean, exportable data here is the single biggest accelerator.
Configure
Leave policies, schedules, approvals, and compliance alerts built into your tenant. We verify the setup with your team.
Validate
Your team works in the live tenant against real scenarios. Gaps fixed before go-live, not after.
Go live
HR, Workforce, and Talent live on Workzoom. Employee self-service opens. For payroll, contact us about your timelines.
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 Jamaica payroll demands, and where Workzoom stands today
Five statutory deductions, multiple government remittance deadlines, and complex leave entitlements each make specific demands of a payroll system. The payroll engine runs full gross-to-net in the Bahamas, Canada, and the United States. If payroll and your timelines are part of your evaluation, contact us. Full gross-to-net for Jamaica is on our roadmap, and we are scoping it now with launch partners. Until then, Workzoom calculates pay to gross and exports time and leave data into your existing payroll.
Single database. No sync required.
HR, Workforce, Payroll, and Talent share one employee record. When a rate changes in HR, payroll reads it immediately. No sync job between modules, no reconciliation step between timekeeping and pay.
Five statutory deductions, scoped with launch partners.
PAYE, NIS, NHT, Education Tax, and HEART/NSTA all file on the monthly S01 to Tax Administration Jamaica. For reference, Education Tax is 3.5% employer and 2.25% employee, and HEART/NSTA is 3% of payroll on the employer side. Contact us about Jamaica payroll and your timelines.
Position-based management.
Positions exist independently of the people filling them. Compliance training requirements and certification levels attach to the position and transfer to new hires automatically.
Data hosted in Canada, governed by Canadian law.
By default your data is hosted on AWS in Montreal, operated by Nortek Solutions Inc., 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.
From the blog
Field notes.For Jamaican HR and payroll.
Compliance guides, workforce insights, and practical advice written for Jamaican employers.
Compliance
HR and Payroll in Jamaica: A Complete Guide for Employers
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Talent
Employee Benefits in Jamaica: What Competitive Employers Offer
Jamaica employee benefits go beyond NIS and NHT minimums. Here's what competitive employers offer to attract and keep top talent in 2026.
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See it run on your own Jamaican payroll.
Pick a time. We'll walk through your setup, show you the parts that matter for your team, and you'll know if it fits. If we're not a fit, we'll say so.
Workzoom works with organizations of 50 or more employees. See our minimums.
FAQ
Questions about Jamaica
Specifics on running HR and payroll in Jamaica with Workzoom.
National Insurance Scheme and National Housing Trust contributions are gross-to-net payroll deductions. Workzoom HR, Workforce, and Talent handle employee records, scheduling, time, and leave, and our Jamaica NIS calculator runs a sample contribution against the insurable earnings ceiling. Contact us about Jamaica payroll and your timelines.
PAYE income tax and Education Tax are gross-to-net payroll deductions. Workzoom HR, Workforce, and Talent handle employee records, scheduling, time, and leave, and our Jamaica NIS calculator also runs a sample PAYE deduction using the thresholds and personal allowances published by Tax Administration Jamaica. Contact us about Jamaica payroll and your timelines.
Yes. Working hours, overtime, vacation leave, sick leave, and maternity leave run on policy rules, and those rules are set to Jamaican law during implementation. Once they are in place, entitlements accrue for every employee, leave balances update as time is booked, and the platform flags any request that would exceed a configured entitlement before it is approved. HR keeps a complete record of contracts, leave, and pay history for each worker, which supports internal audits and any review by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. Staying compliant remains your responsibility as the employer; Workzoom keeps every calculation consistent with the rules you set.
PAYE, NIS, NHT, Education Tax, and the HEART/NTA employer levy are gross-to-net payroll deductions. Workzoom HR, Workforce, and Talent handle employee records, scheduling, time, and leave today. Contact us about Jamaica payroll and your timelines.
Workzoom is $4 USD per employee per month per suite, with no setup fees and no contracts. The HR, Workforce, and Talent suites are each $4 per employee per month, and the three available suites together run $12 per employee per month. Implementation support, data migration, and administrator training are included at no extra cost, and billing is month to month. Pricing is the same for employers across Jamaica, whether you run fifty employees or several thousand. See Jamaica HCM software pricing.
The S01 return is due by the 14th of the following month to TAJ, and the S02 annual reconciliation is due March 31. Today Workzoom HR, Workforce, and Talent handle employee records, scheduling, time, and leave. Contact us about Jamaica payroll and your timelines.
Jamaican employers typically run payroll through local payroll bureaus, regional accounting firms, or in-house spreadsheets, alongside HR platforms that stop before gross-to-net. Workzoom takes a different shape: one platform for HR, Workforce, and Talent, with a Jamaica calculator that shows PAYE, NIS, NHT, Education Tax, and HEART lines, and the payroll engine already runs full gross-to-net in the Bahamas, Canada, and the United States. If Jamaican payroll and your timelines are part of your evaluation, contact us.