Holiday pay calculator
Work out what a week of paid leave should be worth when your pay varies, using the average of up to 52 paid weeks.
How holiday pay is worked out
If your pay does not change from week to week, a week of holiday is simply paid at your normal weekly rate. If your pay varies — because of shifts, regular overtime, commission or bonuses tied to work done — holiday pay is based on your average weekly pay over a reference period of up to 52 paid weeks. Weeks with no pay are skipped, and an earlier paid week is used instead, going back as far as 104 weeks.
Example: £18,200 of gross pay across 52 paid weeks gives an average of £350 a week. For someone working five days a week, one day of leave is worth £70.
Limitations
- This uses one average across the weeks you enter. It cannot tell which individual weeks were unpaid — leave those out and count an earlier paid week instead.
- Figures are gross, before tax and National Insurance. It is not a payslip check.
- Only the first 4 weeks of statutory leave must include regular overtime and commission; the remaining 1.6 weeks can legally be paid at basic pay. This calculator gives one average figure, so compare it with your contract.
To find out how many days or hours of leave you are owed in the first place, use the entitlement calculator.