Pro-rata holiday calculator 2026/27

Work out the statutory holiday your working pattern gives you, in days or in hours, and see where the legal cap on the entitlement applies.

Days you work a week

Your hours a week

Full-time days a week

Count my holiday in

DaysHours

Your hours are

The same every weekIrregular

Your statutory holiday

16.8 days

a year, from working 3.0 days a week. That is the same 5.6 weeks a full-time colleague gets.

Statutory weeks5.6

In days16.8

In hours126.0

A week means a week of your pattern. The regulations give 4.0 weeks plus a further 1.6, whatever days you work, and cap the total at 28.0 days. A 5.0-day week earns 28.0 days on the same rule. Many employers give more than the minimum.

Irregular hours are not pro-rated. Leave for an irregular-hours or part-year worker is not granted as whole weeks at all: it accrues from the hours actually worked, at 12.07% of them, so there is nothing here to pro-rate against a full-time colleague. This page covers patterns that are the same every week. Northern Ireland has its own regulations and is not covered.

By pattern

Statutory holiday by days a week

Days a week	Statutory weeks	Days a year	Hours a year
One day	5.6	5.6 days	42.0 hours
Two days	5.6	11.2 days	84.0 hours
Three days	5.6	16.8 days	126.0 hours
Four days	5.6	22.4 days	168.0 hours
Five days	5.6	28.0 days	210.0 hours

Hours are shown for a day of the length in your own pattern. Where an employer counts leave in hours, the entitlement is the same 5.6 weeks measured a different way.

Holiday and pay

What your holiday is worth

Statutory leave is paid leave: a week of holiday is paid as a week of work. If your hours are the same every week, that is your normal weekly pay, and the take-home pay calculator shows what reaches your account after tax and National Insurance. A part-time salary is worked out on the pro-rata salary calculator.

Where pay varies from week to week, a week’s pay is an average of the weeks you were actually paid for. This page does not ask for those weeks — it asks about your working pattern — so it shows the entitlement rather than a holiday pay figure for variable pay.

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Questions

Common questions

How much holiday do I get if I work part-time?

The same 5.6 weeks as everyone else. A week means a week of your working pattern, so 3.0 days a week gives you 16.8 days of leave a year, where a five-day week gives 28.0 days. Counting in weeks rather than days is what keeps part-time leave fair.

Do bank holidays come out of my entitlement?

They can. There is no statutory right to paid leave on a bank holiday, so an employer may count bank holidays as part of your statutory leave or give them on top. Your contract says which, and part-time staff often receive a pro-rata allowance for them instead of the days themselves.

What if my hours change from week to week?

This page pro-rates a whole-weeks entitlement against a full-time colleague's, and leave for an irregular-hours or part-year worker is not granted as whole weeks at all — it accrues from the hours actually worked, at 12.07% of them, so there is nothing here to pro-rate. Working it out needs the hours you actually worked in a pay period, which this page does not ask for.