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Pension income floor for short-hours work

₩2,200,000KRW per month

Under 60 hours a month normally falls outside workplace pension coverage. Earning at or above this line brings it back in, so the same hours produce a different answer depending on the rate of pay.

Applies to
Employees working under 60 hours a month on a contract of a month or more
Review cadence
Checked once a year

What we have recorded

  1. 2026-01-01
    ₩2,200,000

    The threshold the NPS publishes for 2026, for work of a month or more under 8 days or 60 hours a month. Set by ministerial notice rather than in the Act, so it can move without a statutory amendment — which is why it is tracked here.

    National Pension Service

One reading so far. This becomes a history the first time the figure moves while we are watching — which is the part that cannot be reconstructed later.

Guides that depend on this figure

When this figure moves, every guide above needs the same edit. That is why it is tracked here rather than copied into each one.