Holiday entitlement calculator

Enter how many days a week you work to see the paid holiday the law gives you each year. If your hours change from week to week, or you start or leave part way through the year, the calculator works out your leave from hours or months instead.

Holiday a year

28.0 days

Including bank holidays, if your employer counts them

Your details

Working patternRegular days each weekIrregular hours or part-year

Days worked a weekFrom 0.5 to 7, in half-day steps

Months worked in the leave yearWhole months, from 1 to 12

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How this was worked out

1. 5 days a week × 5.6 weeks, capped at 28 days = 28.0 days for a full year.
2. 28.0 days × 12 ÷ 12 = 28.0000 days before display rounding.
3. The main figure is shown to one decimal place. Statutory entitlement must not be rounded down; use the exact figure when checking leave with an employer.
4. Months are a simple part-year estimate. Actual start and leave dates can change the statutory amount. This is information, not advice.

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What the calculator assumes

• You are a worker with the legal right to paid holiday. Almost everyone classed as a worker has it, including agency workers.
• The result is the statutory minimum. Extra days in your contract are not included.
• Bank holidays are counted inside the total. Your employer can choose to count them this way or give them on top.
• For regular hours, you work the same number of days every week for the whole leave year.
• The result is shown to one decimal place and is not rounded up.

Regular hours

The law sets paid holiday as a number of weeks a year, so the days you get follow from the days you work. The calculator multiplies your working days a week by that number of weeks. Someone who works fewer days a week gets fewer days of holiday, but the same number of weeks off.

There is also a cap on days. Once your working week is long enough to reach it, the total stops growing, so a person who works six days a week gets the same number of days as someone on a five-day week. The working under the result shows the weeks, the cap and your figure.

Bank holidays do not have to be given as paid leave. An employer can count them as part of the statutory total, and the result assumes yours does. If your employer gives bank holidays on top, your leave is the total plus those days.

Irregular hours and part-year work

If the hours you work in a pay period often change, or you have weeks in the year when you do not work and are not paid, you are an irregular-hours or part-year worker. For leave years that start on or after 1 April 2024, your holiday builds up as a fixed percentage of the hours you actually work in each pay period. Enter your hours and the calculator applies that percentage.

GOV.UK says the leave you build up in a pay period must be rounded up to the nearest hour when it comes to half an hour or more. The calculator shows the figure before that rounding, so you can see the sum.

Starting or leaving part way through the year

If you start a job after the leave year has begun, you get only part of the year's leave. The calculator gives a twelfth of the full amount for each month you work, and uses the same sum when you leave before the year ends.

GOV.UK's own example for someone who starts part way through a month rounds that month's leave up to the nearest half day. The calculator leaves the figure unrounded, so check how your employer rounds it.

What it leaves out

• Holiday pay, and how a week's pay is worked out for it.
• Carrying leave over into the next year, which depends on your contract and on why the leave was not taken.
• Leave years that began on or before 31 March 2024, which follow older rules for irregular hours.
• Extra leave your employer gives, which can have its own conditions.

You keep building up holiday while you are on maternity or paternity leave, and while you are off sick. The Statutory Maternity Pay calculator and the Statutory Sick Pay calculator cover pay during those times. If you work part time, the pro rata calculator shows your salary for the hours you work. The minimum wage page lists the hourly rates for the year.

Official guidance

• Holiday entitlement on GOV.UK
• Calculate leave entitlement on GOV.UK
• Calculate holiday entitlement on GOV.UK
• UK bank holidays on GOV.UK

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