Free tool · rates current from 1 April 2024 rules

Holiday entitlement calculator

Statutory minimum holiday for full-time, part-time and irregular-hours staff. Your contract can give more than this, never less.

Days worked per week Working the full holiday year?

28 days statutory minimum, including bank holidays

5.6 weeks x 5 days = 28 days (the statutory cap)

Bank holidays are not extra by default. The statutory 5.6 weeks can include them. Whether your people get bank holidays on top depends on the contract wording, and "28 days plus bank holidays" written loosely is one of the most common accidental over-promises we find.

Regular overtime changes holiday pay, not holiday time. If someone regularly works paid overtime or earns commission, at least four weeks of their holiday must be paid at their normal rate including it, not at basic pay. Getting this wrong is the most reliably incorrect calculation in industrial firms, and it carries back pay.

How it is worked out

Everyone gets 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year, capped at 28 days. Part-time staff get the same 5.6 weeks of their own working pattern. For irregular-hours and part-year workers, holiday accrues at 12.07 per cent of hours actually worked in each pay period, for holiday years starting on or after 1 April 2024, and rolled-up holiday pay is permitted for these workers if it is shown separately on the payslip.

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