How much do you pay to CASNOS in 2026?

The RATE yes, the BASE no, and that is the costliest confusion on this subject. Article 14 of décret exécutif 15-289, as rewritten by décret exécutif 26-257, sets a single rate of 15%, split into 7.5% for social insurance and 7.5% for the pension. But those 15% do not apply to your turnover: under the flat-rate regime the base is worth 25% of turnover for a purchase-and-resale activity and 35% for a service activity. On a turnover of 3,000,000 DZD the contribution is therefore 112,500 DZD in purchase-and-resale and 157,500 DZD in services, not 450,000 DZD. Only the actual-profit regime applies the 15% to the amount you declare, because that amount is already the profit.

Auto-entrepreneur: 24,000 DZD/year (the AE flat option, i.e. 2,000 DZD a month). Other self-employed categories: 43,200 DZD/year, i.e. 3,600 DZD a month. That figure is the official minimum contribution: décret 26-257 requires a base at least equal to the annual SNMG (288,000 DZD), and 15% of 288,000 DZD is 43,200 DZD.

Because 32,400 DZD was the old minimum, calculated on an 18,000 DZD monthly SNMG that predates June 2020 (15% of 216,000 DZD). That figure is stale now that the SNMG stands at 24,000 DZD a month since 1 January 2026 and that décret 26-257 has explicitly tied the base to the annual SNMG: the official minimum is now 43,200 DZD a year, i.e. 15% of the annual SNMG of 288,000 DZD. The decree applies from its publication on 23 July 2026, with no retroactive effect.

YES, and décret exécutif 26-257 confirms it expressly: on an exceptional basis, the auto-entrepreneur may pay, at their own choice, 24,000 DZD as the annual contribution, instead of the 43,200 DZD official minimum that applies to other self-employed categories. It is the default and most popular choice. The auto-entrepreneur can also take the ordinary calculation to contribute more (15% of declared income, up to 864,000 DZD/year with the SNMG in force). What that choice produces as a pension is quantified in the CASNOS pension simulator 2026, linked below.

Yes, and it is the real novelty of décret 26-257. From the third year of activity, the annual contribution can no longer be lower than the average contribution of people carrying on the same activity, in the same wilaya, for the previous year. That amount is set by an arrêté of the minister in charge of social security, activity by activity and wilaya by wilaya. Those arrêtés are unpublished so far: no amount can be announced, and this calculator does not estimate it. The full text is covered in our brief on décret exécutif 26-257.

The social security fund may set your contribution provisionally on the previous year's base, increased by 5%. The decree states that this 5% increase is definitively acquired by the fund, even if you regularise afterwards.

Annual (before June 30, September 30 for farmers). A payment schedule exists only for the branches of activity set by order of the minister for social security (décret exécutif 15-289, art. 16). If you register during the year, the contribution falls due on the day of registration: payable before June 30 (September 30 for farmers) if you register before that date, otherwise within thirty days of registration (décret exécutif 15-289, art. 15). We state no late-payment penalty: no text in our verified set sets its amount. What is written covers a missing declaration of activity, a penalty of 5 000 DA increased by 20 % per month of delay, article 7 of loi 83-14.

No, but they contribute on their salary as manager (not company profit). If no salary is paid, the base falls back on the floor, i.e. the annual SNMG of 288,000 DZD, and they pay the official minimum of 43,200 DZD/year.