Zakah on Employee Salaries

Question:
A listener to the program says that he is a young man who has just been employed. He says, “I deposit my salary in the bank. When does zakah become obligatory on these salaries?” May Allah reward you.

Answer:
Zakah is not obligatory on wealth until a lunar year has passed over it, it reaches the nisab, and a lunar year has passed over it. However, the employee who saves what he saves each month, the safest course for his conscience and the most relieving for him is to consider the month in which he pays the zakah on all his savings, whether a lunar year has passed over them or not. For those over which a lunar year has not passed, the zakah is paid early, and for those over which a lunar year has passed, it is paid at its proper time. By doing so, his conscience is cleared, if Allah wills. This is the ruling currently issued and practiced. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you