UK holiday entitlement calculator

Almost all workers are entitled to 5.6 weeks' paid holiday a year. For someone working 5 days a week that is 28 days. The statutory entitlement is limited to 28 days, so someone working 6 days a week still gets 28 days, not 33.6. Your contract can give you more than the statutory minimum but never less.

Part-time workers with regular hours get 5.6 times the number of days they work each week. Someone working 3 days a week is entitled to at least 16.8 days' leave a year (3 × 5.6). If you work the same hours but over a different number of days, it can be easier to work out the entitlement in hours: 5.6 times your weekly hours.

They can be. Bank and public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave, and an employer can choose to count them as part of a worker's statutory 5.6 weeks. So a full-time worker might get 20 days plus 8 bank holidays, which together make the 28-day minimum. Check your contract to see how your employer treats them.

You build up holiday from your first day. In the first year, a worker can accrue one-twelfth of their annual leave each month. GOV.UK's example is someone entitled to 28 days who starts in January: 28 ÷ 12 = 2.33 days for that month, rounded up to the nearest half day, 2.5 days. After three months they would have 7 days.

For irregular-hours and part-year workers, in leave years starting on or after 1 April 2024, holiday accrues at 12.07% of the hours actually worked in each pay period. The figure is 5.6 weeks divided by 46.4 working weeks. It is rounded to the nearest hour, so 30 hours worked earns 4 hours of leave (3.621 rounded up). Employers may pay rolled-up holiday pay of 12.07% instead.