Work in Senegal

Dependent employment covers paid work under an employer, from recruitment and contracts to daily duties and the end of employment. In the first quarter of 2025, salaried employment represented 38.4% of all employment, compared with 47.7% in urban areas and 28.6% in rural areas. Employers in Senegal are responsible for matters such as contracts, payroll, working conditions, social protection, workplace safety and worker representation, although these responsibilities are often handled personally and less formally in the informal sector. Unemployment connects people to job matching, training, apprenticeships, placements or self-employment; Senegal has no identified general national unemployment cash-benefit scheme that follows automatically from registration with ANPEJ. The labor market combines a large informal economy with self-employment: in 2023, services accounted for 50.0% of employment, agriculture for 33.8% and industry for 16.2%, while 64.0% of workers were self-employed. Professions may be entered through apprenticeship, technical or higher education, work experience or qualifications such as CAP, BEP, BT, BTS, BP and professional titles; a professional order or specialist authority regulates some activities. Business activity may remain informal or take the form of a registered individual enterprise or an OHADA company. Formal registration commonly uses APIX's Bureau de Création d'Entreprise and connects the activity to the RCCM commercial register, the NINEA tax and statistical identifier, tax obligations and any required permits.