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Title: Payroll Specialist hourly rate in Romania, 2026 | Deftridge
Summary: Payroll Specialist pay in Romania: median wage €8 an hour, typical part-time contractor rate €11. Source: Eurostat, 2022.

Romania · **Updated November 3, 2026**

# Payroll Specialist hourly rate in Romania

The market median wage for a Payroll Specialist in Romania is **€7.55 an hour**. A senior part-time contractor typically receives **€11 an hour** on Deftridge.

**€11/hr** typical contractor rate, senior

**€7.55/hr** median wage

**€6-10** middle half of wages

**€240** a month at 5 hours a week

## Payroll Specialist wage percentiles in Romania

Employee wages for the role. The yellow row is the median.

| Percentile | Per hour | 5 h a week, per month | Full time, per year |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10th | €5.03 | €110 | €10,500 |
| 25th | €5.96 | €130 | €12,400 |
| Median | €7.55 | €160 | €15,700 |
| 75th | €10.16 | €220 | €21,100 |
| 90th | €13.81 | €300 | €28,700 |

Source: Eurostat, 2022; aged to October 2026. [How rates are built](https://deftridge.com/rates/methodology/).

## Romania in numbers

What sets Romania apart for a Payroll Specialist, from the same sources as the table above.

- **€10** country floor: no Romania rate is published below it

## What contractors receive

The Deftridge rate for a Payroll Specialist in Romania by level and by format. The company adds 15% on top; you keep all of the rate shown.

| Level | Per hour | Per month at 5 h/week |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Specialist (country floor) | €10 | €220 |
| Senior | €11 | €240 |
| Manager | €13 | €280 |

- Regular role **€11**

- One-off task **€12**

- Task bundle **€11**

Rows marked country floor would come out lower by the formula; the Romania floor of €10 applies instead.

## Payroll Specialist pay in other countries

Typical contractor rate for a senior Payroll Specialist, highest first; 9 of 26 places shown.

| Place | Median wage | Contractor rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Denmark | €31.73 | €45 |
| Luxembourg | €27.39 | €40 |
| Belgium | €25.90 | €40 |
| Ireland | €25.67 | €36 |
| Germany | €23.91 | €35 |
| Netherlands | €21.88 | €30 |
| Austria | €21.70 | €30 |
| Finland | €19.62 | €30 |
| Sweden | €19.32 | €30 |

## Questions about pay, fees and privacy

The same rules apply to every task, so they live on two pages: [Pricing](https://deftridge.com/pricing/) explains the 15% fee, prepayment and when you are paid; [How it works](https://deftridge.com/how-it-works/) covers matching, what a company sees and side work next to a job.

[Payroll Specialist rates in every country](https://deftridge.com/rates/payroll-specialist/) · [Payroll Specialist jobs in Romania](https://deftridge.com/jobs/payroll-specialist/romania/) · [Methodology](https://deftridge.com/rates/methodology/)
