Finiquito and liquidación in Mexico: 3 months, prima de antigüedad, vacation and aguinaldo
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 15 Oct 2026.A worker in Mexico dismissed without cause after 5 years and 8 months on 600 pesos a day is owed three months of salary (54,000 pesos), a prima de antigüedad of 12 days a year (40,793 pesos), and a finiquito of proportional vacation, prima vacacional and aguinaldo: about 112,465 pesos in all.
2026 · Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 15 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
Type your daily salary in pesos.
Enter the start date and your last day of work, and say whether you resigned or were dismissed.
Pick the minimum-wage zone, and add any vacation days owed from earlier years.
Read the finiquito, the liquidación and each line, with what the page leaves out.
When a job ends in Mexico, everyone is owed a finiquito: what was already earned. A dismissal without cause adds a liquidación: the compensation for losing the job. This page computes both from the daily salary and the two dates, each part on its own line, under the Ley Federal del Trabajo.
Finiquito (always). The proportional aguinaldo of the calendar year, at least 15 days of salary a year (article 87). The vacation days of the year in progress in proportion to the time since your last work anniversary, plus any days owed from earlier years, each with the 25% prima vacacional (article 80). Since 2023 the first year earns 12 days, then two more a year up to 20 in the fifth, and two more every five years after that.
Liquidación (dismissal without cause). Three months of salary, counted as 90 days (articles 48 and 50). The prima de antigüedad: 12 days of salary for each year of service, on a salary never above double the daily minimum wage of your zone (articles 162 and 486): 630.08 pesos in 2026, or 881.74 in the northern border zone. The 20 days of salary per year of article 50 apply where the employer may refuse reinstatement (article 49); a switch adds them.
On resignation the prima de antigüedad is due only after 15 years of service.
Not included. Back pay and interest won in a trial, the integrated salary with benefits, fixed-term contracts, PTU and income tax. An estimate, not legal advice; PROFEDET, the federal labour defence office, advises on individual cases. For the aguinaldo alone, use the Aguinaldo Calculator.
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The finiquito is what every worker who leaves has already earned: proportional aguinaldo, vacation days not taken and their 25% prima vacacional. The liquidación is added only on a dismissal without cause: three months of salary and the prima de antigüedad, and in some cases 20 days per year.
Three months of salary as the constitutional indemnización (articles 48 and 50), plus the prima de antigüedad of 12 days per year of service. Where the employer may refuse reinstatement under article 49, article 50 adds 20 days of salary per year of service.
Twelve days of salary for each year of service (article 162), with part years in proportion. The salary used may not exceed double the daily minimum wage of your zone (article 486): 630.08 pesos in 2026, or 881.74 pesos in the northern border zone.
Only after at least 15 years of service (article 162, fraction III). A dismissal earns it at any seniority, whether the dismissal was justified or not. On resignation before 15 years the settlement is the finiquito alone.
Since the 2023 reform of article 76: 12 days in the first year, then 14, 16, 18 and 20 in the fifth; 22 days from the sixth to the tenth year, and two more every five years. On leaving, the year in progress is paid in proportion, with a 25% prima vacacional.
Back pay and interest won in a trial, the integrated salary with benefits, fixed-term contracts, PTU, unpaid days of the last week and income tax. PROFEDET, the federal labour defence office, advises on individual cases.
Rates and rules change; check the source before you rely on a figure.
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