Singapore holiday entitlement calculator (annual leave)

How annual leave in Singapore is calculated

MOM’s table runs: *"1st 7, 2nd 8, 3rd 9, 4th 10, 5th 11, 6th 12, 7th 13, 8th and thereafter 14"*. Seven days is the **lowest first-year entitlement anywhere in this comparison**, and fourteen after eight years is still less than half the UK’s 28.

**But the ranking inverts at the short end, and that is the interesting part.** Türkiye gives nothing for a year. New Zealand gives nothing for a year. Brazil gives nothing for a year. Singapore gives a pro-rated share after **three months** — and MOM says expressly that this applies *"even if you’re still on probation"*. Ranked by headline figure Singapore comes last; ranked by what a four-month employee actually holds, it beats three countries that publish far bigger numbers.

**The table is indexed on the year you are in, not the years you have finished.** *"1st — 7"* means a brand-new employee with no complete years of service is on seven days. MOM gives a worked example: someone starting 14 March 2013 is on 7 days to 13 March 2014, 8 days to 13 March 2015, 9 days to 13 March 2016.

**And your year is yours.** *"Your year of service begins from the day you start work with your employer."* Like Switzerland’s Dienstjahr and South Africa’s leave cycle, it moves with the employee rather than resetting in January — so the pro-rata is measured against completed months of *your* year.

**Two limits worth knowing.** The entitlement applies to employees covered by the Employment Act, and MOM notes that managers and executives and some other groups are covered differently — this page does not test coverage. Public holidays are a separate entitlement, and contracts may give more than the statutory table.