Annual Leave Calculator

About the Annual Leave Calculator

HR officers processing an employee's exit, and employees who have just handed in their notice, both face the same immediate question: how many leave days are owed, and what is the cash value of that unused leave? Getting the number wrong in either direction causes friction, and the calculation is more involved than it looks because it depends on how long someone has worked and how far into the current leave cycle they are.

Article 77 of Labour Proclamation 1156/2019 sets out the minimum annual leave entitlements for Ethiopian workers. The starting point is 14 working days after completing one year of continuous service with the same employer. That entitlement increases by one day for each additional year of service, up to a ceiling of 28 working days. The days are working days, so weekends and public holidays do not count toward the leave balance. Employers can offer more than the statutory minimum, but they cannot offer less.

Enter your years of service and monthly salary, and this tool tells you your current leave entitlement, how many days you have accrued so far in the year, and what those days are worth in cash. The monetary value is calculated using the standard Ethiopian formula of dividing the monthly salary by 26 working days to get a daily rate. That daily rate is what your employer must pay out for any untaken leave at the end of your contract.