Employee categories in Celery - which options do you have?
When you add an employee, you pick a category. This tells Celery which tax rules to apply to that employee.
Where do you set the category?
- New employee: go to Employees → Add employee and fill in the Category field.
- Existing employee: go to Employees → an employee → Contract details → Category → Edit.
Which categories can you choose?
The list depends on the jurisdiction (the country or island where the employer runs payroll). Three categories are available everywhere: Standard, Pensioner, and Proforma.
Curaçao
- Standard
- Pensioner
- Expatriate (with tax ruling)
- Intern (resident)
- Intern (non-resident)
- Youth and young adults (with tax ruling)
- Proforma
Aruba
- Standard
- Pensioner
- Expatriate with tax ruling (up to and including September 2017)
- Expatriate with tax ruling (from October 2017)
- Intern
- Proforma
BES
- Standard
- Pensioner
- Expatriate (with tax ruling)
- Proforma
Sint Maarten
- Standard
- Pensioner
- Expatriate (with tax ruling)
- Intern (resident)
- Intern (non-resident)
- Proforma
Suriname
- Standard
- Pensioner
- Supervisory Director
- Proforma
Guyana
- Standard
- Tributor
- Pensioner
- Proforma
British Virgin Islands
- Standard
- Civil servant
- Self-employed person
- Director, musician, entertainer etc.
- Pensioner
- Deemed employee
- Proforma
What is a Proforma employee?
A Proforma employee is a test employee. Celery calculates all the normal taxes and premiums for this person, but does not include them in the real payroll run. No one gets paid.
Why is this useful? You can:
- Check what a gross salary looks like after tax (gross/net calculation).
- See in advance what a new employee would cost you.