Which is more cost-effective to pay social security by units or individuals?

Legal analysis: individuals pay social security, the main body of payment is themselves, and they bear all the payment. Usually, the proportion of pension insurance contributions for flexible employees is 20%. At the same time when the unit pays social security, employees participate in employee pension insurance, just like the unit pays. Individual employees pay 8%, and the company pays 16%. In other words, the proportion of individuals paying social security is higher than that of units paying social security. The payment base is different, and it is more cost-effective for the unit to pay social security.

Legal basis: Provisional Regulations on the Collection and Payment of Social Insurance Fees.

Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to the collection and payment of basic old-age insurance premiums, basic medical insurance premiums and unemployment insurance premiums (hereinafter referred to as social insurance premiums).

The units and payers mentioned in these Regulations refer to the units and individuals that should pay social insurance premiums in accordance with relevant laws, administrative regulations and the provisions of the State Council.

Article 3 The collection scope of basic old-age insurance premiums: state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises and their employees, and institutions and their employees that implement enterprise management.

The collection scope of basic medical insurance premium: state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises and their employees, state organs and their employees, institutions and their employees, private non-enterprise units and their employees, social organizations and their full-time employees.

The collection scope of unemployment insurance premium: state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises and their employees, institutions and their employees.

The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may, according to local actual conditions, stipulate that urban individual industrial and commercial households should be included in the basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance coverage, and social organizations and their full-time staff, private non-enterprise units and their employees, and urban individual industrial and commercial households with employees and their employees should be included in the scope of unemployment insurance.

The payment base and rate of social insurance premiums shall be implemented in accordance with relevant laws, administrative regulations and the provisions of the State Council.

Article 15 Where the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government stipulate that social insurance premiums shall be collected by the tax authorities, the tax authorities shall provide the social insurance agencies with the payment information of the payment units and individuals in a timely manner; The social insurance agency shall collect relevant information and report to the administrative department of labor security.