German leave days for part-time work, joining or leaving mid-year, and the payout
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 18 Oct 2026.German law gives at least 24 Werktage of leave a year, which is 20 working days for a five-day week. The full amount is earned after six months in the job. Someone who joins on 1 August 2026 gets one twelfth for each of the 5 full months, so 8.33 days for that year.
2026 · Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 18 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
Choose the year and type your working days a week and the leave days in your contract.
Enter the first day of the job and, if it ends this year, the last day.
Read the leave days for the year: the full amount or one twelfth for each full month.
Add the days already taken and your monthly gross to see what is left and the payout when the job ends.
This calculator works out the paid leave the Bundesurlaubsgesetz (BUrlG) gives for one calendar year, for any number of working days a week, and for jobs that start or end during the year.
The minimum (§ 3). The law gives at least 24 Werktage a year. Werktage are all days except Sundays and public holidays, so the law counts a six-day week. For a week of fewer days the minimum shrinks in proportion: 20 days for five days a week, 16 for four, 12 for three. A contract may give more; type its figure and the page uses the higher one.
The waiting period (§ 4). The full annual leave is earned once the job has lasted six months. Someone who starts on 1 July completes the six months on 31 December and gets the full year's leave.
Twelfths (§ 5). One twelfth of the annual leave is due for each full month of the job when the six months are not completed within the year, when the job ends before they are completed, or when it ends in the first half of a year after they were completed. A fraction of half a day or more is rounded up to a full day; a smaller fraction is not rounded away. A job that ends in the second half of the year keeps the full year's leave.
Severe disability (§ 208 SGB IX). Severely disabled people get five more working days a year for a five-day week, more or fewer for other weeks.
Payout (§§ 7, 11). Leave that can no longer be taken because the job ends is paid out as Urlaubsabgeltung. Holiday pay follows the average earnings of the last 13 weeks; the page uses three months' gross as the 13 weeks.
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The Bundesurlaubsgesetz gives at least 24 Werktage a year, counted on a six-day week. For a five-day week that is 20 working days, for four days 16 and for three days 12. A contract or collective agreement may give more days.
The full annual leave is earned after six months in the job. When the six months end after 31 December, you get one twelfth for each full month instead: starting on 1 August 2026 gives 5 full months, so 8.33 days on a five-day week.
Leaving by 30 June after the six-month waiting period gives one twelfth of the annual leave for each full month of that year. Leaving on 31 March with 20 days a year gives 5 days. Leave already taken beyond that need not be paid back.
Part-time leave is the full-time leave in proportion to the working days a week. The legal 24 Werktage cover a six-day week, so each working day a week is worth 4 days a year: 12 days for three days a week, 8 days for two.
A fraction of half a day or more is rounded up to a full day under § 5 (2) BUrlG, so 8.75 days become 9. A smaller fraction, such as the 0.33 in 8.33 days, is not rounded down to nothing; the law leaves it as it is.
Urlaubsabgeltung is the payout for leave that can no longer be taken because the job ends, under § 7 (4) BUrlG. Each remaining day is paid at the average earnings of the last 13 weeks, leaving out the extra pay for overtime.
Rates and rules change; check the source before you rely on a figure.
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