Nigeria Farm Worker Payroll Calculator

Calculate farm worker wages, deductions, and take-home pay in Nigeria. Covers permanent staff, casual daily workers, seasonal harvesters, and piece-rate workers — with a dated national minimum-wage reference and explicit coverage choices.

👷 4 Worker Types 📌 Min Wage Check 💰 Employer Cost 🌐 Free
👷 Section 1: Worker Setup
Enter more than 1 to see total farm labour cost
🏠 Section 2: In-Kind Benefits (optional)
Estimated cost of accommodation provided. It is an in-kind benefit, not cash take-home pay. Contribution bases are entered separately.
Value of meals or food rations provided to the worker.

Private-sector contribution choices

Confirm which schemes apply with the employer or scheme administrator. Worker type and number of workers do not determine eligibility here. Amounts below are per worker per month.

Reference guidance: PenCom 2023, NHIA, Housing Fund amendment (2023). PAYE is calculated separately.

The 2019 Act lists exemptions including seasonal agriculture, certain part-time or piece-rate arrangements, and establishments with fewer than 25 persons. Confirm current applicability; the worker count above is not establishment headcount. 2019 Act, sections 3, 4 and 17; Official 2024 rate reference.

Cash Take-Home Before PAYE (per worker)

Payslip Breakdown

🏢 Employer Cost Summary
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Farming context: Nigeria

In Nigeria, agriculture contributes about 24% of GDP, employs roughly 35% of the labour force, the average farm is around 0.5 ha — so plan budgets, wages, and repayments around smallholder cash-flow cycles.

Agriculture share of GDP~24%
Arable land34,000,000 ha
Irrigated share~1%
Main rainy seasonApril to October
Main food cropscassava, yam, maize, rice, sorghum, millet
Main export cropscocoa, sesame, cashew, rubber

Growing regions at a glance

RegionAnnual rainfallMajor crops
South-West (Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti)1500 mmcocoa, cassava, maize, yam
South-East (Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi)1800 mmcassava, yam, rice, oil palm
South-South (Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Edo)2500 mmoil palm, cassava, plantain, rice
North-Central (Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Nasarawa, Plateau, FCT)1200 mmyam, soybean, rice, sorghum
North-East (Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Taraba)700 mmmillet, sorghum, groundnut, cowpea
North-West (Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Jigawa)800 mmsorghum, millet, rice, maize

Country context from the AfroTools agriculture dataset — planning reference, not agronomic advice. Confirm with local extension services.