Annual Leave Calculator
Enter your entitlement and days taken to see what you have left, and how many days per month you need to use up.
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This tool tracks your remaining annual leave balance and tells you how many days per month you need to use to avoid losing them at year end.
Most people forget to track their leave until October, then realise they have 12 days left and nowhere to put them. This tool keeps the running total honest and tells you whether you are ahead or behind a steady pace for the year.
How pro-rata works
If you started part-way through the year, you are typically entitled to a fraction of the full annual allowance based on how much of the year remains from your start date. Enable the pro-rata option and enter your start date to see your adjusted entitlement, rounded to the nearest half day. Months left counts the days remaining in the calendar year, today included, in twelfths of the year, and the days per month figure spreads what you have left over that time. With less than a month to go it shows everything you have left.
Common mistakes
- Leaving all your leave until the end of the year, when everyone else wants it too.
- Counting weekends as leave days. Only count days you would normally work.
- Forgetting bank holidays. Some jobs include them in your entitlement and some do not.
- Not using pro-rata when you started part-way through the year.
Questions
Does this include bank holidays?
No. Enter only your discretionary leave entitlement. If your employer includes bank holidays in your allowance, count them in your total. If they are separate, leave them out.
What does "behind" pace mean here?
Behind pace means you have used fewer days than the year's progress would suggest, so you have more to take in the remaining months. If your employer does not allow carry-over, this is the more urgent situation.
What is pro-rata leave?
If you started part-way through the year, you only get a share of the full entitlement, based on how much of the year is left. This tool rounds it to the nearest half day.
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