Cálculo de indemnización: 30 days of salary per year, with the 2025 cap
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 15 Oct 2026.The cálculo de indemnización in El Salvador follows article 58 of the Código de Trabajo: 30 days of basic salary for each year of service and the proportional part of an unfinished year, never less than 15 days. No daily salary above four times the daily minimum wage counts.
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Since June 2025 the four-times limit caps the commerce and services figure at $53.76 a day, or $1,612.80 per year of service.
This calculator works out the indemnización a worker on an open-ended contract is owed when dismissed without justified cause, from the monthly salary and the two dates, and adds the proportional vacation pay owed on the same dismissal.
The rule. Article 58 of the Código de Trabajo pays the basic salary of 30 days for each year of service and the proportional part of an unfinished year. The calculator counts complete years from the start date to each anniversary (article 179) and adds the remaining days divided by 365. A monthly salary divided by 30 is the day's pay, so each year is worth one month's salary. The total is never below 15 days of salary.
The cap. The second paragraph of article 58 says no salary may exceed four times the daily legal minimum wage in force for this calculation. Decreto Ejecutivo No. 11 of 2025, in force since 1 June 2025, sets the daily minimum at $13.44 in commerce, services, industry, sugar mills and agro-industry, $13.227 in textile maquila, $10.035 in coffee mills and sugar-cane harvest, and $8.96 in farming and coffee harvest. Four times $13.44 is $53.76 a day, or $1,612.80 per year of service. The Code names the daily minimum; some guides multiply the monthly minimum by four instead and get $1,635.20.
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Article 58 of the Código de Trabajo pays 30 days of basic salary for each year of service and the proportional part of an unfinished year, with at least 15 days. With a monthly salary, 30 days of salary is one month, so four and a half years on $600 a month come to about $2,700.
No salary above four times the daily legal minimum wage counts. Since 1 June 2025 the daily minimum in commerce, services and industry is $13.44, so the cap is $53.76 a day and a year of service gives at most 30 x $53.76 = $1,612.80. Other sectors have lower minimums and lower caps.
Those sites multiply the monthly minimum wage of $408.80 by four. Article 58 says no salary may exceed four times the daily minimum wage, and the decree sets that at $13.44, so this calculator uses 30 x 4 x $13.44 = $1,612.80 per year. The difference is $22.40 a year.
The proportional part of 30 days for the time worked, but never less than 15 days of salary. On $500 a month after two months, the proportional part is $83.56, so the 15-day minimum of $250.00 applies instead.
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