# Annual Leave Entitlement Singapore 2026 — 7 Days Rising To 14

Source page: https://valem.run/calculators/singapore/holiday-entitlement

The Ministry of Manpower states the Employment Act entitlement as 7 days of paid annual leave in the first year of service, rising by one day a year to 14 from the eighth year. You are eligible after working at least 3 months, and the leave is pro-rated on the completed months you have worked in your current year of service.

**Tax year:** 2026

## How it 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.

## Worked example

With Completed months worked in your current year of 12, this model computes Days Entitled of 7.

## Inputs

| Name | Label | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `serviceYears` | Complete years of service with this employer | number |
| `completedMonthsInYear` | Completed months worked in your current year | number |
| `daysTaken` | Days already taken | number |

## Sources

- [Ministry of Manpower, Annual leave eligibility and entitlement — mom.gov.sg (7 days in the first year of service rising by one a year to 14 from the eighth; eligibility after three months; pro-rated on completed months)](https://www.mom.gov.sg/employment-practices/leave/annual-leave/eligibility-and-entitlement) (checked 2026-10-11)

## What this page claims

The Valem engine reproduces this model's formula through 10 self-test cases. That shows internal consistency, not that the formula matches current law; the cited sources are the evidence for that. Estimate, not tax advice.

## For agents

- Model manifest (formula, constants, test vectors): https://valem.run/calculators/singapore/holiday-entitlement.json
- Compute by URL: https://valem.run/calculators/singapore/holiday-entitlement.json?serviceYears=0
- MCP: https://valem.run/mcp/calculators (call `calculate` with calculator `singapore/holiday-entitlement`)