Global Employment Facts (Employ Borderless), edition 2026.11

An open dataset of statutory employment facts for 250 countries and territories. One selected value per country and field across 18 statutory fields: paid annual leave, national public holidays, notice period, severance, employer and employee social security contribution rates, minimum wage, income tax brackets, top personal income tax rate, corporate tax rate, standard VAT rate, maternity, paternity and parental leave, maximum probation period, statutory weekly hours, overtime premium and state pension age.

Every value carries the source it was read from, the tier that source sits in, the date the figure took effect and the date a person last verified it. Source tiers, best first: the statute or the government body that administers it; official multilateral compilations (ILO, OECD, World Bank, ISSA, SSA, CLEISS, Eurostat); secondary compilers; machine-extracted and editorially reviewed rows; open holiday calendars. Selection where several approved values exist for one country and field is deterministic: the highest tier wins, then the later effective date, then source identifier, source URL and value as last-resort tie-breaks. Nothing is averaged, estimated, interpolated or gap-filled, and rows that are superseded, rejected or pending review are excluded before selection.

Conversions are recorded rather than applied silently. Annual leave is counted in working days, and where a statute sets calendar days the conversion arithmetic travels with the row. Minimum wage is monthly in the local currency, and where a statute sets an hourly rate the hours assumption used to reach a month is stated on the row.

Edition 2026.11 holds 3,160 values, of which 2,211 come from a statute or government source. Coverage is uneven by design: where no source has been found, the dataset holds nothing rather than a guess, and the per-field coverage counts are published alongside it.

These are statutory minimums, not what employers offer or what employees take.