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Annual leave and public holiday pay calculator (Ireland)

The annual leave you have not taken when you leave, paid at your daily rate, by the most favourable of the three legal methods; and the extra day’s pay for a public holiday in the week after your last day.

This site does not give legal advice. This calculator applies the general rules to your own answers; it does not tell you what applies to your situation. All amounts are gross.

Your employment

This tool calculates your annual leave, public holidays and time limits for this situation. Other amounts follow rules it does not cover.

The day your employment actually ended, even if you were paid in lieu of notice.

Your pay
Does your pay change from week to week (hours or commission)?

Before tax, for your normal hours, with regular bonuses, without overtime.

Without overtime.

Your working time
Your usual working days (needed if you do not work Monday to Friday)
Are your hours the same every week?

Sick days with a medical certificate count as worked: do not enter them.

Annual leave

The Irish leave year starts on 1 April. 0 if none.

Leave you could not take because you were sick can be carried over for up to 15 months.

This tool does not calculate contract entitlements: enter yours if it is higher.

Public holidays
Did you work during the 4 weeks before you left?

Needed if you entered a number above: the WRC time limit may run from that day.

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Enter your dates, your hours and your pay. Your untaken leave and public holiday pay show here.

Calculation of the statutory minimum from your answers. It is not an opinion on your situation. Check your contract; for advice, ask Citizens Information, a trade union or a solicitor.

Annual leave when you leave a job in Ireland

The leave year runs from 1 April. Your entitlement is the most favourable of: (a) 4 working weeks if you worked at least 1,365 hours, (b) one-third of a working week for each month with at least 117 hours, (c) 8% of the hours you worked, up to 4 weeks (Organisation of Working Time Act 1997, s. 19). Leave not taken is paid when you leave (s. 23(1)).

If your employment ends in the 7 days before a public holiday and you worked in the 4 weeks before it, you are due an extra day’s pay (s. 23(2)).

Example

Leave year from 1 April 2026 to 23 October 2026, 39 hours a week over 5 days, 5 days taken, €850 a week: 1,147.71 hours, method (c) gives 11.77 days, 6.77 days not taken × €170 = €1,150.90; public holiday of 26 October 2026: €170.00.