Holiday pay calculator 2026/27
See what a week and a day of your statutory leave are worth, how much leave your working pattern gives you, and what holiday pay looks like after tax.
What a day and a week of leave are worth on £28,000
A day is a day of your own pattern, so a four-day week has longer days and a bigger daily figure than a five-day week on the same salary.
What this page does not work out
A week of holiday pay for someone whose pay varies is an average of earlier weeks, and this page holds one annual salary. Which weeks you were paid nothing cannot be recovered from a single figure, so we do not pick an average for you — the money below prices a week of your salary spread evenly, which is a different question.
Whether leave may be paid as it is earned rather than taken — rolled-up holiday pay — is permitted for accrued leave of this kind, and this page does not price it either: it answers what you accrue and what a week is worth, not how an employer chooses to pay it. A part-time salary is worked out on the pro-rata salary calculator, and the full deduction-by-deduction picture is on the take-home pay calculator.
Common questions
How much should I be paid for a week of holiday?
If your hours are the same every week, a week of holiday is paid as a normal working week: on £28,000 that is £538.46 before tax, and it is already part of the salary rather than extra on top. Where pay varies, a week's pay is an average of your earlier weeks, and that averaging rule is not one we publish a figure for yet.
Is holiday pay taxed?
Yes. Holiday pay is pay: income tax, National Insurance, student loan repayments and pension contributions all come off it in the ordinary way, in the pay period it is paid in.
What about zero-hours and irregular hours?
Leave for an irregular-hours or part-year worker is accrued on the hours actually worked rather than granted as whole weeks. Tell us your hours are irregular and the page works it out: 12.07% of the hours you worked in a pay period, taken to a whole hour, accruing on the last day of each period and capped at 28.0 days a leave year. What it still does not do is price a week of holiday PAY where your pay varies — that is an average of earlier weeks and this page holds one annual salary, which cannot say which weeks you were unpaid.