Holiday Pay

UK workers are entitled to a statutory minimum of 5.6 weeks of paid leave per leave year, inclusive of bank holidays, under regulations 13 and 13A of the Working Time Regulations 1998. The calculator handles the two work patterns differently:

• Fixed hours / regular pay: your average weekly hours are multiplied by 5.6 to give annual holiday hours, then by your average hourly pay. Annual entitlement = 5.6 × your average weekly pay.
• Irregular hours or part-year workers: for leave years starting on or after 1 April 2024, your employer may pay rolled-up holiday pay as a 12.07% uplift on every hour you work, shown as a separate line on your payslip instead of paid time off being accrued. The percentage is the statutory ratio 5.6 ÷ (52 − 5.6) = 0.1207. The calculator shows the uplift per hour at your average rate, plus an indicative annual figure that assumes you work your average hours in every week of the year.

Bank holidays count as part of the 5.6 weeks unless your contract says otherwise, and a contract can always give more than the statutory minimum — never less.

Assumptions and limits: the calculator assumes your hours and hourly pay are constant across the year. It does not pro-rate for starting or leaving a job partway through a leave year, and it does not perform the 52-week averaging of pay that applies when a worker with variable pay actually takes leave — enter your best average instead. It also does not apply the 28-day statutory cap: if you work six or seven days a week, 5.6 weeks of leave is capped at 28 days, so the figure shown will overstate your entitlement. Commission and regular overtime should be included in the hourly average for the first four weeks of leave; the tool cannot split those rates for you.