Hong Kong holiday entitlement calculator (paid annual leave)

How paid annual leave in Hong Kong is calculated

*"An employee is entitled to 7 days’ annual leave with pay after serving every period of 12 months under a continuous contract."* Then the table: **1 → 7, 2 → 7, 3 → 8, 4 → 9, 5 → 10, 6 → 11, 7 → 12, 8 → 13, 9 or above → 14**.

**Read the table, not the word "progressively".** Years one and two both give seven days, so the first increase does not arrive until the **third** year. An employee two years in who expects a step up because the entitlement "increases progressively" will not get one. After that it is one extra day per year until it flattens at 14.

**Fourteen days is the ceiling, and it is low by comparison.** Singapore’s table also caps at 14, reached a year earlier; Türkiye’s 14 is the *starting* band; the UK gives 28 from the first day. Hong Kong and Singapore are the two lowest ceilings in this whole comparison.

**Two rules on how the leave is taken rather than how much it is.** Where the entitlement does not exceed 10 days, up to 3 may be granted separately and the balance consecutively; where it exceeds 10 days, at least 7 must be consecutive. An employee may accept payment in lieu of the part exceeding 10 days — but an employer may not write a term into a contract under which the employee forgoes annual leave.