The top part identifies who pays, who is paid and the period being settled.
Company details
- Name or company name, address and CIF (tax number).
- Contribution account code (código de cuenta de cotización): the number under which the company pays contributions for you to Social Security.
Your details
- Name, NIF (tax ID) and Social Security number (número de afiliación), which is yours for life.
- Category or professional group, under the collective agreement, and seniority (start date).
- Contribution group, from 1 to 11: not your category under the agreement but the Social Security scale. Each group has a minimum base and a maximum (Order PJC/297/2026, article 3): in 2026, group 1 (engineers and graduates) has a minimum base of €1,989.30 a month; groups 4 to 7 (assistants, clerical officers and administrative assistants, ancillary staff), €1,424.40; groups 8 to 11 contribute by the day (minimum €47.48 a day). The maximum is the same for everyone: €5,101.20 a month.
Settlement period
The month (or part of a month) being paid and the number of days: 30 if you are paid monthly, or the calendar days worked if you are paid by the day.
In practiceIf you are a clerical officer (group 5) and your payslip shows group 7, you are classified
wrongly; in 2026 the minimum base is the same (both are €1,424.40), but the category in your employment record and what the
agreement entitles you to are not. Ask for it to be corrected.
Source: Orden ESS/2098/2014, modelo de recibo individual de salarios (payslip model, in Spanish), annex, header of the model · Orden PJC/297/2026, cotización a la Seguridad Social para 2026 (2026 contribution rules, in Spanish), article 3