Educational only: Work and pay decision support, not tax, legal, financial or career advice.
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Scope: Market-neutral work and pay planning using your own assumptions.
What this calculator helps you decide
Best for
Applying a holiday-pay rule that you already know and enter yourself.
Outputs
Total, worked and not-worked holiday pay, straight time and uplift.
Start here
Choose total multiplier or premium addition before entering the factor.
- Close-intent boundary
- Do not use this to calculate overtime; use Overtime Pay Using Your Rule Calculator. This tool cannot determine legal holiday entitlement or which employer rule applies.
Apply overtime and holiday rules
Holiday Pay Using Your Rule: total
Total, worked and not-worked holiday pay, straight time and uplift.
Your holiday pay rule
Choose how your entered factor works; no jurisdiction or employer rule is inferred.
Your numbers stay in this browser
Entered straight-time hourly rate.
Holiday hours paid without work under your entered rule.
Hours worked on the holiday under your entered rule.
Choose whether the entered factor is the total worked-hours multiplier or a premium added to straight time.
Factor and fixed bonusOpen the assumptions you are less likely to change on every comparison.
Your total multiplier or added premium factor, according to the selected rule type.
Any fixed holiday amount included in your entered rule.
Calculated result
Worked, not-worked, straight-time and uplift amounts remain explicit.
Use one currency consistently across all inputs.
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Scenario comparison
Each row names the assumption axis changed from the baseline.
ScenarioResultDifference
Entered scenario560.00Baseline
Entered factor: 1.6578.0018.00
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Calculation details
View calculation detailsView the formulas and inputs used for these results.
Total holiday pay
Total holiday pay
totalHolidayPay = basePayForNotWorkedHours + workedHolidayPay + fixedBonus560.00 currency unitsResult560.00 currency units
Not-worked base pay plus worked holiday pay under your selected rule and fixed bonus. Displayed using the engine-rounded value.
Total holiday pay formula →Worked holiday pay
Worked pay
workedHolidayPay = workedHolidayHours × baseHourlyRate × selected rule factor270.00 currency unitsResult270.00 currency units
Worked hours times base rate and the selected factor interpretation. Displayed using the engine-rounded value.
Worked holiday pay formula →Pay for hours not worked
Not-worked pay
basePayForNotWorkedHours = notWorkedHolidayHours × baseHourlyRate240.00 currency unitsResult240.00 currency units
Not-worked holiday hours times base hourly rate. Displayed using the engine-rounded value.
Pay for hours not worked formula →Straight-time comparison
Straight-time comparison
straightTimePay = (notWorkedHolidayHours + workedHolidayHours) × baseHourlyRate420.00 currency unitsResult420.00 currency units
All entered holiday hours times the base rate. Displayed using the engine-rounded value.
Straight-time comparison formula →Uplift over straight time
Uplift
upliftOverStraightTime = totalHolidayPay − straightTimePay140.00 currency unitsResult140.00 currency units
Total holiday pay less the straight-time comparison. Displayed using the engine-rounded value.
Uplift over straight time formula →Inputs used
- Base hourly rate
- 30.00 currency units
- Paid holiday hours not worked
- 8
- Holiday hours worked
- 6
- Rule type
- 0
- Entered factor
- 1.5
- Fixed holiday bonus
- 50.00 currency units
Open this calculator with preset values
This calculator supports documented, shareable scenario URLs. Compatible assistants and applications can construct links using the parameters below.
Scenario values are visible in the URL, calculations run in the browser, and optional saved state stays only on this device. Anyone you share the URL with can read those numbers, so do not include private or identifying data.
| Parameter | Meaning | Unit | Allowed values | Presence | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| baseHourlyRate | Entered straight-time hourly rate. | currency units/hour | 0 to 100000000 | Required | 30 |
| notWorkedHolidayHours | Holiday hours paid without work under your entered rule. | hours | 0 to 10000 | Required | 8 |
| workedHolidayHours | Hours worked on the holiday under your entered rule. | hours | 0 to 10000 | Required | 6 |
| ruleKind | Choose whether the entered factor is the total worked-hours multiplier or a premium added to straight time. | rule choice | 0, 1 | Required | Total multiplier |
| factor | Your total multiplier or added premium factor, according to the selected rule type. | factor | 0 to 10 | Required | 1.5 |
| fixedBonus | Any fixed holiday amount included in your entered rule. | currency units | 0 to 100000000 | Required | 50 |
Holiday Pay Using Your Rule: total
Use the result only for the rule interpretation and factor you entered.
Formula summary
- Primary formula
- totalHolidayPay = basePayForNotWorkedHours + workedHolidayPay + fixedBonus
Data used here
- The estimate uses your inputs and the work-value formula documented in the methodology.
Decision checks
Act on the result
Confirm whether the factor is a total multiplier or an added premium.
Stress-test the decision
Retest the factor and worked holiday hours.
When this estimate can be misleading
- No legal entitlement, public-holiday calendar, employer policy or payroll tax is applied.
- The tool cannot determine which rule applies.
- Confirm rule wording and eligibility independently.
- Use the result only for the rule interpretation and factor you entered.
Educational estimate, not advice. See all assumptions & limitations →
Related reading
Use these practical guides to interpret the decision and its assumptions.
- How to use the Holiday Pay using your rule calculator safely
Calculate holiday pay from user-entered hours, factor and bonus without choosing a legal or employer rule.
Read guide
Frequently asked questions
What holiday pay results from the rule type, factor and hours I enter?
Confirm whether the factor is a total multiplier or an added premium.
Does this calculate tax or take-home pay?
No. It uses the gross, pre-tax assumptions you enter and applies no local tax, payroll or employment rule.
Which official source and period does this use?
This market-neutral tool does not use an official local policy rule.
Can I share or save a scenario?
Tool inputs and results stay in this browser. Anonymous categorical usage analytics send only governed page, tool, cluster and action identifiers; tool inputs and results are never sent. Error monitoring is disabled. Optional saved state stays only on this device.
How should I use the calculated result?
Treat the calculated result as one scenario, then verify the input record with the greatest effect on that result.