UAE holiday entitlement calculator (annual leave)

How annual leave in UAE is calculated

Article 29(1) gives fully paid annual leave of not less than *thirty days for each year of service*, *two days for each month where service is more than six months and less than a year*, and *leave for the parts of the final year spent at work* where service ends before the balance is used.

**The first-year rate is not a twelfth of thirty.** Two days a month is 24 a year, so a worker on eleven months has **22** days, not the 27.5 a straight pro-rata would give. The full 30 arrive with the first completed year — a six-day jump at month twelve that calculators which simply divide 30 by twelve miss.

**"More than six months" is strict.** At exactly six completed months the first-year rule gives nothing; the seventh month gives 14 days at once. Before that, leave during probation is at the employer’s discretion (art. 29(3)).

**After the first year, a final part year is proportional.** Art. 29(9) pays leave *for the parts of the year in proportion to the time spent at work*, at the basic wage — five months is 30 × 5 ÷ 12 = 12.5 days. Part-time workers take leave by hours actually worked, as set in the contract (art. 29(2)); this page models full-time service.