Prima de servicios, cesantías and their 12% interest in Colombia, auxilio included
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 15 Oct 2026.On the 2026 minimum wage of $1.750.905 plus the auxilio de transporte of $249.095, a Colombian worker's base for prestaciones is $2.000.000. A full semester's prima is $1.000.000, a full year's cesantías $2.000.000, and the 12% interest on them $240.000.
2026 · Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 15 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
Type the monthly salary, or tap the minimum wage; the auxilio de transporte is added when the salary is up to two minimum wages.
Keep 180 days for a full semester and 360 for a full year, or type the days you worked (30-day months), or count them from dates.
Turn on salario integral if your contract says so: it already includes the prima and the cesantías.
Read the prima for the semester, the cesantías for the year and the 12% interest on them.
Colombian employers owe three payments on top of the salary, and this page works out all three for a semester or a year, in full or in part.
Prima de servicios. Article 306 of the Código Sustantivo del Trabajo gives 30 days of salary a year, paid in two halves: one by 30 June and the other within the first 20 days of December. Each payment covers the semester, in proportion to the days worked: salary × days / 360. A full semester pays half a month.
Cesantías. Article 249 gives one month of salary for each year worked, and the proportional part of a year: salary × days / 360. The base is your last monthly salary if it has not changed in three months, or the average of the last year if it has or if your pay varies (article 253).
Intereses sobre cesantías. Ley 52 de 1975 and Decreto 116 de 1976 add 12% a year on the cesantías balance at 31 December, or when you leave, in proportion to the time elapsed: cesantías × 12% × days / 360. They are paid to you in January; there is no interest on interest.
Auxilio de transporte. Ley 1 de 1963 counts the transport allowance as salary for the prestaciones, so it is added to the base of the prima and the cesantías for workers who receive it: those earning up to two minimum wages ($3.501.810 in 2026). The 2026 minimum wage and allowance are boxes you can change.
Salario integral. A salario integral (at least 13 minimum wages) already includes the prima, the cesantías and their interest, so the page shows nothing to add.
Days are counted the payroll way: 30 days a month, 180 a semester, 360 a year. For your monthly take-home pay, use the Colombia Net Salary Calculator.
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A full semester's prima on the 2026 minimum wage is $1.000.000. The base is the minimum wage of $1.750.905 plus the auxilio de transporte of $249.095, which is $2.000.000, and the prima de servicios for a semester is half a month: $2.000.000 × 180 / 360. It is paid by 30 June and again by 20 December.
Article 306 of the Código Sustantivo del Trabajo gives 30 days of salary a year, in two payments. Each one is the monthly salary, plus the auxilio de transporte if you receive it, times the days worked in the semester, divided by 360. A full semester has 180 days, so it pays half a month.
The cesantías are one month of salary for each year worked, and the proportional part of a year: salary times days worked divided by 360. The salary is your last monthly salary if it did not change in three months, or the average of the last year if it did. The auxilio de transporte is added for workers earning up to two minimum wages.
Multiply the cesantías by 12% and by the days worked in the year, and divide by 360. For a full year that is 12% of the cesantías: $240.000 on $2.000.000. Decreto 116 de 1976 says they are paid in January, or when the contract ends, and that no interest is paid on interest.
Yes, for workers who receive it. Article 7 of Ley 1 de 1963 counts the auxilio de transporte as salary for settling prestaciones sociales, and the prima and the cesantías are prestaciones sociales. In 2026 the auxilio is $249.095 a month and goes to workers earning up to two minimum wages, $3.501.810.
No. Article 132 of the Código Sustantivo del Trabajo lets a salary of at least 10 minimum wages plus a 30% benefit factor compensate in advance the legal primas, the cesantías and their interest. A worker on salario integral therefore receives none of the three as a separate payment, though vacations are still due.
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