The amount of recruitment subsidy is 50% of employees' salaries for a maximum of 12 months from the start of the first employee's employment relationship, but no earlier than the date of applying for the subsidy. The subsidy is not tied to the salary or wages of any individual employee, but can be used to pay the salaries of several employees up to the maximum months and amount.
The subsidy cannot be used to pay the salary or wages of self-employed persons. Nor can the subsidy be used to pay the salary or wages of an employee for whose salary costs the company has received a pay subsidy or other public funding under the Act on public employment and business services. Ineligible salary costs also include the salary or wages of an employee whose work output is in an industry for which aid cannot be granted under the de minimis regulation on the basis of which the subsidy is granted.