UK Holiday Entitlement Calculator
Use our free holiday calculator to work out your statutory holiday entitlement.
Calculate your UK statutory holiday entitlement with ease
Want to find out your holiday entitlement? Calculating leave allowance is easy with our holiday calculator.
Select what your holiday allowance is based on, the period you’d like to cover, and you’ll be able to see your statutory holiday allowance. Find our free calculator above.
How does the holiday entitlement calculator work?
Our holiday entitlement calculator works by taking the number of days you work in a week and multiplying this by 5.6. If your leave is determined by the number of hours you work in a week, rather than days, the calculation remains the same.
To use the calculator, you need to fill in the following details:
- Whether your leave is calculated in days or hours
- If you want to calculate statutory leave for a full year, or a set time period
- The number of days or hours you work in a week
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Find out more about UK holiday entitlement
In the UK there are a few rules that employers must abide by. These rules are:
– Employers can only round up holiday entitlement and cannot round down. – Employers can include public holidays as part of the 28 days holiday. – Employers must pay employees for any absence that is part of their entitlement.
For more information around annual leave rules in the UK visit gov.uk.
– Employers can only round up holiday entitlement and cannot round down. – Employers can include public holidays as part of the 28 days holiday. – Employers must pay employees for any absence that is part of their entitlement.
For more information around annual leave rules in the UK visit gov.uk.
Employees working in hours are still entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday, but this will be given to them in hours. So instead of getting 28 days holiday, they will receive a set number of hours holiday.
This is based on their weekly working hours throughout the year.
This is based on their weekly working hours throughout the year.
A part-time employee is someone who works less than 5 days every week. Part-time employees are entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday a year, however, this will be less than 28 days.
The full 28 days of holiday allowance is pro-rated according to how many days a week the employee works. For example, if an employee works 4 days a week, they will be entitled to 22.4 days of holiday a year.
The full 28 days of holiday allowance is pro-rated according to how many days a week the employee works. For example, if an employee works 4 days a week, they will be entitled to 22.4 days of holiday a year.
A full-time employee is someone who works 5 or more days every week. In the UK, employees who are classed as full-time are entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday a year, the equivalent to 28 days.
Statutory paid holiday entitlement is limited to 28 days, so if an employee is working 6-day weeks, they are still only entitled to 28 days paid holiday.
Statutory paid holiday entitlement is limited to 28 days, so if an employee is working 6-day weeks, they are still only entitled to 28 days paid holiday.
If an employee starts or leaves partway through the year, their holiday allowance is pro-rated based on how much of the leave year they were employed for.
For example, if the business’s leave year is calculated from January to December and the employee leaves in June, they are entitled to half of their full holiday allowance.
For example, if the business’s leave year is calculated from January to December and the employee leaves in June, they are entitled to half of their full holiday allowance.
If you would like to learn more about annual leave, check out some of our guides below.
