Filling in the terms of employment
When an employee of yours is applying for a residence permit on the basis of work, you need to supplement the employee's application by filling in the terms of employment. Using Enter Finland for Employers to submit the terms of employment will speed up the processing of your employee's application. You can fill in the terms of employment as soon as your employee has submitted their residence permit application online in Enter Finland.
If your employee is applying for a residence permit using the fast-track service, you must fill in the terms of employment in Enter Finland for Employers within two days after your employee has submitted their application.
If you employ seasonal workers, see the instructions for supplementing the terms of employment of seasonal workers.
This is what you should do:
You must submit your employee’s terms of employment when the employee applies for a first residence permit and when the employee applies for an extended permit.
- For user instructions, see the page Enter Finland for Employers.
- Log in to Enter Finland for Employers.
- The employee must enter your Business ID in his or her application. The Business ID links your company to the employee’s application.
- If you are a private individual, ask your employee to state your personal identity code in the application. You are a private individual employer if you do not have a Business ID.
- You can fill in the terms of employment as soon as the employee has submitted his or her application in Enter Finland.
- Once you have submitted the terms of employment, you can add the attachments required, if any.
- If your employee is applying for a residence permit for a researcher, for a residence permit for seasonal work or for a residence permit on the basis of intra-corporate transfer, he or she must first give you permission to supplement the application. To do that, your employee should go to section ‘Employment details’ when he or she is filling in the application.
If you are going to employ several persons with the same terms of employment and if all of them are using a similar residence permit application, you can fill in the terms of employment for all employees in one go in Enter Finland.
See more detailed instructions on the page ‘Instructions for filling in the terms of employment’.
If you employ seasonal workers, see the instructions for supplementing the terms of employment of seasonal workers.
The terms of employment of a foreign employee must comply with the law and the collective agreements applicable in Finland
When your employee applies for an extended permit, the Finnish Immigration Service will check how much money your employee has been paid during the validity period of the previous residence permit.
Full-time employees
The salary of an employee who works full-time must be at least the minimum salary specified in the applicable collective agreement for full-time work. If no applicable collective agreement exists, the salary must correspond to the salary level of employees in the labour market doing similar work.
Part-time employees
If your employee only relies on his or her part-time employment relationship to secure sufficient financial resources for him or herself, the employee’s income is considered sufficient if the total salary from different employment relationships is at least such that the requirements for the residence permit are met. See the required salaries for all work-based residence permits on the page Income requirement.
Fringe benefits as part of the salary
Some of your employee’s salary may consist of fringe benefits, such as company car or employer-provided accommodation. The taxable value of the fringe benefits will be taken into account when assessing the salary. When you fill in the terms of employment, you are asked to list the employee’s salary and the fringe benefits and their taxable values separately. For more information about the taxable values of fringe benefits, see the website of the Finnish Tax Administration (in Finnish).
Income requirement for work-based residence permits
The required income depends on which grounds an employee applies for a residence permit. For example, to obtain a residence permit for an employed person, the required salary is 1,600 euros per month in 2025. See the required salaries for all work-based residence permits on the page Income requirement.
Filling in the paper ‘Terms of employment’ form
If you are not able to use Enter Finland for Employers, you can fill in the ‘Terms of employment’ paper form (pdf.). Your employee should then add the form to his or her application in the online service Enter Finland.