Kuwait National Labour Support Calculator

National labour support table (KWD a month)

Labour support is paid to Kuwaitis working for non-government employers under Law 19 of 2000 and Cabinet Decision 391 of 2001 as amended, and is administered by the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM). Each table amount has four parts: the social allowance by qualification and marital status, a fixed increase of KWD 220 (a 50 increase, a 50 bonus and 120 cost of living), a qualification increase, and a 25% difference on the social allowance with a minimum of 50.

We could not read the official table on PAM's website; the figures above match across four recent secondary sources and fit the formula exactly in every row. Some sources give 531 and 623 for "intermediate plus a course" and 481 and 573 for "below intermediate plus a 2-year course", so the official table may have more than nine rows.

Additions and the deduction

• Children's allowance: KWD 50 per child up to the seventh (Article 3 as amended by Law 32/2003). The mother receives it if the father has died, is disabled or unable to earn, or if she supports the children without maintenance.
• Postgraduate degrees: KWD 75 a month for a master's and 150 for a PhD.
• Disability: KWD 50 for mild and 100 for moderate or severe.
• Deduction: KWD 50 if the employee's salary exceeds KWD 1,250, being the 50-dinar bonus. It is not settled whether this means the basic salary or the total registered with social security, nor how a salary of exactly 1,250 is treated; the calculator makes no deduction at exactly 1,250.

Example: a married accounting graduate with two children earning KWD 900 receives 848 + 2 × 50 = KWD 948 a month. A married engineer with a PhD, four children and a salary of 2,200 receives 898 − 50 + 150 + 4 × 50 = KWD 1,198.

Conditions and payment

The beneficiary must be a Kuwaiti actually working for a registered non-government employer with active social security contributions, must not combine the support with a government job, and must be registered with PAM (Decision 613/2015). The workplace must be inside Kuwait, except for university or diploma holders working in the Divided Zone, for international and regional organisations, or for companies in which the state holds shares. Holders of the intermediate certificate need a one-year course and those below it a two-year course, or registered experience of the same length (Decision 1196/2023).

Support is paid on the 25th of each month and starts from the application date with no back pay. It stops when you leave work, except for military or reserve service, employer-sponsored study or training, and treatment abroad or accompanying a patient. In August 2025 PAM submitted a study on raising the amounts; we found no decision approving it as of November 2026.

For your pension see the Kuwait pension calculator, and for your end-of-service indemnity the Kuwait indemnity calculator.