# Malta work permit cost: Malta Permit Cost Stack

> The Malta Permit Cost Stack carries 8 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 5.74 to 600 EUR, read 7 November 2026.

Malta Work Permit Checker · https://maltaworkpermitchecker.com/datasets/malta-permit-cost-stack/ · computed 2026-11-08

**Range of the published figures:** 5.74 to 600 EUR (range 5.74 to 600 EUR; 8 published figures; 5 of 12 sources read publish one).

5 of the 12 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 7 November 2026.

## By charge and payer (employer or worker)

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| charge national minimum wage 2026, per week | 229.44 EUR | 229.44 to 229.44 EUR | 1 |
| charge national minimum hourly rate 2026 | 5.74 EUR | 5.74 to 5.74 EUR | 1 |
| charge Single Permit, first application fee | 600 EUR | 600 to 600 EUR | 1 |
| charge Single Permit renewal, per year | 150 EUR | 150 to 150 EUR | 1 |
| charge Single Permit, authorised live-in carers fee | 27.5 EUR | 27.5 to 27.5 EUR | 1 |
| charge statutory bonus payable each June and December | 135.1 EUR | 135.1 to 135.1 EUR | 1 |
| charge weekly allowance payable each March and September | 121.16 EUR | 121.16 to 121.16 EUR | 1 |
| charge pre-departure course fee | 250 EUR | 250 to 250 EUR | 1 |
| payer (employer or worker) employer | 10 % | 10 to 10 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Identita - single permit application (fee)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/single-permit-application/) | 600 EUR | Single Permit, first application fee | 2026-11-07 |
| [Identita - pre-departure course (single permit)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/expatriates-unit-single-permit-pre-departure-course/) | 250 EUR | pre-departure course fee | 2026-11-07 |
| [DIER - national minimum wage](https://dier.gov.mt/en/services/employment-conditions/wages/national-minimum-wage/) | 229.44 EUR | national minimum wage 2026, per week | 2026-11-07 |
| [Identita - single permit application (fee)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/single-permit-application/) | 150 EUR | Single Permit renewal, per year | 2026-11-07 |
| [DIER - wages FAQs](https://dier.gov.mt/en/faqs/wages/) | 135.1 EUR | statutory bonus payable each June and December | 2026-11-07 |
| [DIER - wages FAQs](https://dier.gov.mt/en/faqs/wages/) | 121.16 EUR | weekly allowance payable each March and September | 2026-11-07 |
| [Identita - single permit application (fee)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/single-permit-application/) | 27.5 EUR | Single Permit, authorised live-in carers fee | 2026-11-07 |
| [MTCA - Class 1 social security contribution rates 2026](https://mtca.gov.mt/personal-tax/fss/social-security-contribution-rates/class-1---social-security-contribution-rates/2026) | 10 % | employer | 2026-11-07 |
| [MTCA - Class 1 social security contribution rates 2026](https://mtca.gov.mt/personal-tax/fss/social-security-contribution-rates/class-1---social-security-contribution-rates/2026) | 10 % | employer | 2026-11-07 |
| [DIER - national minimum wage](https://dier.gov.mt/en/services/employment-conditions/wages/national-minimum-wage/) | 5.74 EUR | national minimum hourly rate 2026 | 2026-11-07 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (10)

- [Identita - single permit application (fee)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/single-permit-application/), read 2026-11-07: "Applicable fee First time Single Permit: €600"
- [Identita - pre-departure course (single permit)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/expatriates-unit-single-permit-pre-departure-course/), read 2026-11-07: "The Pre-Departure Course fee is €250."
- [DIER - national minimum wage](https://dier.gov.mt/en/services/employment-conditions/wages/national-minimum-wage/), read 2026-11-07: "​2026 Minimum Wage ​€229.44"
- [Identita - single permit application (fee)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/single-permit-application/), read 2026-11-07: "Single Permit Renewal: €150 (per year)"
- [DIER - wages FAQs](https://dier.gov.mt/en/faqs/wages/), read 2026-11-07: "The full statutory bonus and weekly allowance payable every six months is as follows: End of June……………………………………………..€135.10 (Bonus)"
- [DIER - wages FAQs](https://dier.gov.mt/en/faqs/wages/), read 2026-11-07: "End of March…………………………….€121.16 (Weekly Allowance)"
- [Identita - single permit application (fee)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/single-permit-application/), read 2026-11-07: "Applicable Fee (Authorised Live-in carers only): €27.50"
- [MTCA - Class 1 social security contribution rates 2026](https://mtca.gov.mt/personal-tax/fss/social-security-contribution-rates/class-1---social-security-contribution-rates/2026), read 2026-11-07: "This rate of contribution entitles the contributor to pro-rata contributory benefits Persons born up to 31st December 1961 C 229.45 490.38 10% 10% n/a 0.30% D 490.39 n/a 49.04 49.04 98.08 1.47 Persons born from 1st January 1962 onwards"
- [MTCA - Class 1 social security contribution rates 2026](https://mtca.gov.mt/personal-tax/fss/social-security-contribution-rates/class-1---social-security-contribution-rates/2026), read 2026-11-07: "This rate of contribution entitles the contributor to pro-rata contributory benefits Persons born up to 31st December 1961 C 229.45 490.38 10% 10% n/a 0.30% D 490.39 n/a 49.04 49.04 98.08 1.47 Persons born from 1st January 1962 onwards C 229.45 559.30 10% 10% n/a 0.30% D 559.31 n/a 55.93 55.93 111.86 1.68 E n/a n/a 10%Max.4.38 10%Max.4.38 n/a 0.3%Max.0.13"
- [DIER - national minimum wage](https://dier.gov.mt/en/services/employment-conditions/wages/national-minimum-wage/), read 2026-11-07: "2026 Hourly rate €5.74"

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [Identita - pre-departure course verified from 1 March 2026](https://identita.gov.mt/pre-departure-course-requirement-to-be-verified-as-from-1-march-2026/), read 2026-11-07: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Ministry for Home Affairs - pre-departure course](https://homeaffairs.gov.mt/predeparture-course/), read 2026-11-07: every candidate on the page was refused
- [DIER - legislation](https://dier.gov.mt/en/resources/legislation/), read 2026-10-17: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Legislation Malta - S.L. 452.71 (national minimum wage national standard order)](https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/452.71/eng), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Department of Social Security - Class 1 contributions 2026](https://socialsecurity.gov.mt/en/information-and-applications-for-benefits-and-services/social-security-contributions/social-security-contributions-class-1-2026/), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Jobsplus - forms (Employment Licences Unit)](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/resources/resource-forms), read 2026-11-07: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Jobsplus - employer forms](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/resources-employer/resource-forms-employer), read 2026-11-07: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 5 of the 12 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in EUR (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 8 figures, never sentences; 57 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per charge per route - Jobsplus licence processing fee, permit fee first-time and renewal, Skills Pass, pre-departure course, residence card, employer social security contribution - and the wage floor the contract must clear; across them the all-in cost of hiring one third-country national on each route, first year and renewal year, which is what an employer actually asks and which no authority publishes as a total

## Sources

- [Identita - single permit application (fee)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/single-permit-application/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Identita - pre-departure course (single permit)](https://identita.gov.mt/expatriates-unit-main-page/noneu-nationals/employment-related-permits/single-permit/expatriates-unit-single-permit-pre-departure-course/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Identita - pre-departure course verified from 1 March 2026](https://identita.gov.mt/pre-departure-course-requirement-to-be-verified-as-from-1-march-2026/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ministry for Home Affairs - pre-departure course](https://homeaffairs.gov.mt/predeparture-course/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [DIER - national minimum wage](https://dier.gov.mt/en/services/employment-conditions/wages/national-minimum-wage/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [DIER - wages FAQs](https://dier.gov.mt/en/faqs/wages/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [DIER - legislation](https://dier.gov.mt/en/resources/legislation/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Legislation Malta - S.L. 452.71 (national minimum wage national standard order)](https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/452.71/eng) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [MTCA - Class 1 social security contribution rates 2026](https://mtca.gov.mt/personal-tax/fss/social-security-contribution-rates/class-1---social-security-contribution-rates/2026) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Department of Social Security - Class 1 contributions 2026](https://socialsecurity.gov.mt/en/information-and-applications-for-benefits-and-services/social-security-contributions/social-security-contributions-class-1-2026/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Jobsplus - forms (Employment Licences Unit)](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/resources/resource-forms) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Jobsplus - employer forms](https://jobsplus.gov.mt/resources-employer/resource-forms-employer) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The Malta Permit Cost Stack carries 8 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 5.74 to 600 EUR, read 7 November 2026.
- 5 of the 12 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 7 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Cost Stack, charge national minimum wage 2026, per week: median 229.44 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Cost Stack, charge national minimum hourly rate 2026: median 5.74 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Cost Stack, charge Single Permit, first application fee: median 600 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Cost Stack, charge Single Permit renewal, per year: median 150 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Cost Stack, charge Single Permit, authorised live-in carers fee: median 27.50 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Cost Stack, charge statutory bonus payable each June and December: median 135.10 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Cost Stack, charge weekly allowance payable each March and September: median 121.16 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Cost Stack, charge pre-departure course fee: median 250 EUR across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.
- Malta Permit Cost Stack, payer (employer or worker) employer: median 10 percent across 1 source, read 7 November 2026.

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