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Bands and rates are taken from HMRC and GOV.UK for the 2026/27 tax year and reviewed at each fiscal event. Estimates only — not personalised tax advice.
Work out the holiday pay you accrue as a part-year or irregular-hours worker. Enter the hours you worked and your hourly rate to see your holiday entitlement in hours and the rolled-up pay owed — using the official 12.07% method.
Irregular-hours & part-year workers · 2026/27
Every worker in the UK is entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year. For staff on regular hours that is easy to convert into days, but for irregular-hours and part-year workers — zero-hours staff, agency workers, term-time-only employees — the government allows holiday to be calculated as a percentage of the hours actually worked.
That percentage is 12.07%. Since 1 April 2024, employers can also pay this as rolled-up holiday pay — an extra 12.07% added to each payslip — instead of paying holiday separately when leave is taken.
If you are paid the National Living Wage, your holiday pay is accrued on those earnings too. The default rate above uses the £12.21 National Living Wage so you can see the holiday element at the legal minimum. Change it to your real hourly rate for an exact figure.
Holiday accrues at 12.07% of the hours you work in each pay period. Multiply your hours by 0.1207 to get your holiday hours, then by your hourly rate for the pay.
An extra 12.07% added to each payslip instead of paying holiday when you take leave. It has been lawful for irregular-hours and part-year workers since 1 April 2024 and must be shown as a separate line.
Full-time workers get 5.6 weeks of holiday. There are 46.4 working weeks left in the year after that holiday, and 5.6 ÷ 46.4 = 0.1207, or 12.07%.
No — the 12.07% method is for irregular-hours and part-year workers. Salaried full-time staff get their 5.6 weeks as paid days off. Use the take-home pay calculator for salaried pay.