Chile

Available schemes

Scheme	Description	Years
`ordinario`	Remuneracion ordinaria: AFP + Salud + AFC + Segunda Categoria	2025, 2026

Supported pay periods

`period.type`	Supported	Proration model
`monthly`	Yes	`split_monthly`
`biweekly`	Yes	`split_monthly`
`weekly`	No — `422 PERIOD_TYPE_NOT_SUPPORTED`	—

Applies to ordinario. Under split_monthly the dependency graph runs over the monthly figures and the result is split afterwards, so every bracket, floor and ceiling is evaluated exactly where the law defines it. The two fortnights add up to the month per line, which is what makes them reconcile against the monthly filing. period.days takes no part in the split — the factor comes from period.type. If days is not 15, the response carries a PERIOD_DAYS_IGNORED warning. weekly is rejected because a month does not contain a whole number of weeks, so four weeks cannot be made to add up to the monthly filing. See Pay periods for the full model and the cost of the naive shortcut.

Example request — biweekly

curl -X POST https://api.clevis.dev/v1/payroll/calculate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "country": "CL",
    "scheme": "ordinario",
    "year": 2026,
    "period": {
      "type": "biweekly",
      "start_date": "2026-09-01",
      "end_date": "2026-09-15",
      "days": 15
    },
    "employee": {
      "id": "emp_001",
      "daily_salary": 17333,
      "monthly_salary": 1500000,
      "afp_rate": 0.1144,
      "risk_class_rate": 0.0093,
      "overrides": {
        "aplica_gratificacion": true
      }
    },
    "employer": { "id": "employer_001" }
  }'

The response reports period_basis.sequence: 1, periods_in_month: 2 and a monthly_equivalent you can reconcile the month against.

Ordinario

The ordinario scheme covers employees under Chilean labor law (Codigo del Trabajo, DFL N1). Includes mandatory pension (AFP), health (FONASA/ISAPRE), unemployment insurance (AFC), and income tax withholding (Impuesto de Segunda Categoria).

What it calculates

Employee deductions (descuentos):

AFP — Pension contribution (rate varies by AFP, ~10.58%–11.45%)
Salud FONASA/ISAPRE — Health contribution (7%)
AFC Seguro de Cesantia — Unemployment insurance employee share (0.6%)
Impuesto de Segunda Categoria — Progressive income tax (LIR Art. 43 N2)

Employer contributions (contribuciones patronales):

SIS — Seguro de Invalidez y Sobrevivencia (1.49%)
Mutual/ACHS — Occupational accident insurance (variable, via risk_class_rate)
AFC patronal — Unemployment insurance employer share (2.4%)

Perceptions included:

Sueldo base — Base monthly salary
Gratificacion legal — Legal bonus: 25% of base salary, capped at 4.75 IMF/12 (Art. 50 CT)
Horas extraordinarias — Overtime (50% surcharge, pre-calculated by client)
Comisiones — Commissions (optional, via flag)
Asignacion familiar — Family allowance per dependent (non-taxable, via flag)

Employee inputs

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`monthly_salary`	number	Yes	—	Sueldo base mensual
`daily_salary`	number	Yes	—	Salario diario (monthly / 30)
`afp_rate`	number	Yes	—	Total AFP rate including commission (e.g. `0.1144`)
`risk_class_rate`	number	Yes	—	Rate of the mutual the employer is affiliated to (Ley 16.744), as a fraction
`overtime_amount`	number	No	0	Pre-calculated overtime or commission amount
`commission_amount`	number	No	0	Comisiones for the period (CT Art. 42 N3), taxable
`asignacion_familiar_amount`	number	No	0	Asignacion familiar (DFL 150/1981), non-taxable
`colacion_amount`	number	No	0	Asignacion de colacion (CT Art. 41 inc. 2), non-taxable
`movilizacion_amount`	number	No	0	Asignacion de movilizacion (CT Art. 41 inc. 2), non-taxable
`overrides.aplica_gratificacion`	boolean	No	false	Set `true` for indefinite contracts
`overrides.aplica_comisiones`	boolean	No	false	Set `true` when commissions apply
`overrides.aplica_asignacion_familiar`	boolean	No	false	Set `true` when employee has recognized dependents

risk_class_rate and afp_rate have no defaults. A request for Chile that omits either is rejected with 422 VALIDATION_ERROR on the missing field. The mutual rate comes from the employer’s affiliation; Clevis never assigns or validates it.

AFP rates (2025–2026)

The AFP rate must be passed by the client as input.afp_rate. Rates include the mandatory 10% contribution plus each AFP’s commission.

AFP	Rate
AFP Capital	11.44% → `0.1144`
AFP Cuprum	11.44% → `0.1144`
AFP Habitat	11.27% → `0.1127`
AFP Modelo	10.58% → `0.1058`
AFP Planvital	11.16% → `0.1116`
AFP ProVida	11.45% → `0.1145`
AFP Uno	10.69% → `0.1069`

Gratificacion legal — conditional flag

Legal bonus applies automatically when aplica_gratificacion = true. Formula: gratificacion = min(sueldo_base × 0.25, 4.75 × IMF / 12) For indefinite contracts this is nearly always true.

Colacion and movilizacion — haberes no imponibles

Both allowances are settled as min(amount, cap).

Field	Cap 2025	Cap 2026
`colacion_amount`	$100,000	$105,000
`movilizacion_amount`	$100,000	$105,000

What they do:

Yes — they add to total_perceptions and to net_salary.
No — they do not feed the AFP, Salud or AFC bases, nor the Impuesto de Segunda Categoria.
No — they do not add to employer cost. A non-taxable allowance is not a base for employer contributions.

With an amount of 0 the concept does not appear in the response at all, so a request that omits both fields returns exactly what it returned before.

The cap is not statutory. CT Art. 41 inc. 2 sets no maximum amount — it requires the allowance to be reasonable and not to exceed actual expense, and in practice Previred and the SII audit what counts as reasonable. So the cap here is a configurable reasonableness ceiling set by the employer, not a legal figure, and the defaults above can be adjusted. Same posture as the ordinary hour divisor in Colombia: where the law does not settle it, Clevis does not take a side.

The excess over the cap is not reclassified as taxable — it is simply not paid. Send 150,000 of colacion against a 105,000 cap and the response shows 105,000; the 45,000 disappears.Strictly, the excess over what is reasonable should become taxable remuneration. That is not modelled in v1, and it is the integrator’s responsibility: either send amounts within the reasonable range, or split the excess into a separate taxable perception.

The other non-taxable allowances of Art. 41 — perdida de caja, desgaste de herramientas, viaticos — are not modelled.

Contribution caps (topes imponibles)

Both AFP/Salud and AFC contributions have monthly income caps that change with the UF:

AFP + Salud base cap: 81.6 UF/month
AFC base cap: 122.6 UF/month

The UF value changes daily; the engine uses the cap for the first day of the period.

Key reference values

2025:

Value	Jan 2025	Feb 2025	Mar 2025	Apr 2025	May 2025	Jun 2025
UTM	$67,294	$67,630	$67,790	$68,154	$68,426	$68,557
IMF	$500,000	$500,000	$500,000	$500,000	$500,000	$500,000
Tope AFP/Salud	$3,864,509	$3,881,162	$3,894,474	$3,905,285	$3,922,835	$3,933,564
Tope AFC	$5,807,838	$5,832,859	$5,852,857	$5,869,110	$5,895,469	$5,911,627
Tope gratificacion	$197,917	$197,917	$197,917	$197,917	$197,917	$197,917

IMF increases to **

510,000** from July 2025 (gratificacion cap →

201,875/month). 2026:

Value	Jan 2026	Feb 2026	Mar 2026	Apr 2026	May 2026	Jun 2026
UTM	$69,720	$69,930	$70,140	$70,350	$70,560	$70,770
IMF	$520,000	$520,000	$520,000	$520,000	$520,000	$520,000
Tope AFP/Salud	$4,026,960	$4,037,054	$4,047,148	$4,057,242	$4,067,336	$4,077,430
Tope AFC	$6,050,310	$6,065,474	$6,080,638	$6,095,803	$6,110,967	$6,126,131
Tope gratificacion	$205,833	$205,833	$205,833	$205,833	$205,833	$205,833

IMF increases to **

540,000** from July 2026 (gratificacion cap →

213,750/month).

Segunda Categoria tax brackets

The table is expressed in UTM. The engine normalizes the taxable base, applies the table in UTM, then converts back to CLP. The brackets are identical for 2025 and 2026 — the UTM value changes monthly, which adjusts the effective CLP thresholds automatically.

From (UTM)	To (UTM)	Rate
0	13.5	0% (exempt)
13.5	30	4%
30	50	8%
50	70	13.5%
70	90	23%
90	120	30.4%
120	310	35%
310	—	40%

The taxable base for this table is: remuneracion_bruta − cotizaciones_previsionales.

Example request

curl -X POST https://api.clevis.dev/v1/payroll/calculate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "country": "CL",
    "scheme": "ordinario",
    "year": 2026,
    "period": {
      "type": "monthly",
      "start_date": "2026-03-01",
      "end_date": "2026-03-31",
      "days": 30
    },
    "employee": {
      "id": "emp_001",
      "daily_salary": 17333,
      "monthly_salary": 1500000,
      "afp_rate": 0.1144,
      "risk_class_rate": 0.0093,
      "overrides": {
        "aplica_gratificacion": true
      }
    },
    "employer": { "id": "employer_001" }
  }'

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Available schemes

Supported pay periods

Example request — biweekly

Ordinario

What it calculates

Employee inputs

AFP rates (2025–2026)

Gratificacion legal — conditional flag

Colacion and movilizacion — haberes no imponibles

Contribution caps (topes imponibles)

Key reference values

Segunda Categoria tax brackets

Example request

​Available schemes

​Supported pay periods

​Example request — biweekly

​Ordinario

​What it calculates

​Employee inputs

​AFP rates (2025–2026)

​Gratificacion legal — conditional flag

​Colacion and movilizacion — haberes no imponibles

​Contribution caps (topes imponibles)

​Key reference values

​Segunda Categoria tax brackets

​Example request

Available schemes

Supported pay periods

Example request — biweekly

Ordinario

What it calculates

Employee inputs

AFP rates (2025–2026)

Gratificacion legal — conditional flag

Colacion and movilizacion — haberes no imponibles

Contribution caps (topes imponibles)

Key reference values

Segunda Categoria tax brackets

Example request