Polish holiday entitlement calculator (urlop wypoczynkowy)

How urlop wypoczynkowy in Poland is calculated

*"Wymiar urlopu wynosi: 1) 20 dni – jeżeli pracownik jest zatrudniony krócej niż 10 lat; 2) 26 dni – jeżeli pracownik jest zatrudniony co najmniej 10 lat."* A step, not a slide: there is nothing between 20 and 26, and nine years and eleven months is still 20.

**The ten years are not ten years with this employer.** Art. 154¹ § 1 counts previous employment *"bez względu na przerwy w zatrudnieniu oraz sposób ustania stosunku pracy"* — regardless of breaks and of how each job ended — and art. 155 adds a notional period for completed education, up to eight years for a university degree. Someone three years into their first job after a master’s is already on the 26-day band, which is the single thing people most often get wrong about Polish leave.

**Poland is the second country in this family whose statute sets its own rounding, and it rounds up.** Art. 154 § 2: part time is pro-rated by wymiar czasu pracy, and *"niepełny dzień urlopu zaokrągla się w górę do pełnego dnia."* So 3/4 etatu on the 26-day band is 19.5 days, which is **20**. Then § 3 caps the result at § 1’s figure, so no combination of inputs can produce more than 26.

**And the figures come from the consolidated text, which took some doing.** The act’s own ELI identifier serves the Kodeks pracy *as enacted in 1974* — a scan stating 14, 17, 20 and 26 days after one, three, six and ten years of work, superseded twice over. The current consolidation is published as a separate item, Dz. U. 2026 poz. 1245, which carries its own amendment chain and the words *"z uwzględnieniem stanu prawnego na dzień 27 sierpnia 2026 r."*