Dekretnye in Russia: 2024-2025 pay ÷ 731 days, 140 to 194 days, minimum and maximum
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 17 Oct 2026.Russian maternity benefit in 2026 is the 2024 and 2025 earnings divided by the 731 calendar days of those years, paid at 100% for 140 days. On 80,000 roubles a month the average day is 2,626.54 roubles, so the leave pays 367,715.60 roubles, with no NDFL withheld.
2026 · Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 17 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
Type the monthly salary, or the 2024 and 2025 earnings when they differed.
Enter the days in 2024-2025 spent on sick leave, maternity or child-care leave, if any.
Tap the leave: 140 days, 156 after a complicated birth, 180 or 194 for twins.
Pick the first day of the leave and read the benefit, the daily figure and the last day.
This calculator works out the Russian maternity benefit (пособие по беременности и родам, декретные) for a leave that starts in 2026, by Federal Law 255-FZ and the Regulation approved by Government Decree 1540.
The period. Average earnings come from the two calendar years before the leave, 2024 and 2025, each counted up to its maximum contribution base: 2,225,000 roubles for 2024 and 2,759,000 for 2025. The earnings are divided by the calendar days of the two years, 731 because 2024 was a leap year, minus the days of sick leave, maternity and child-care leave and of release from work with pay that bore no contributions.
The limits. The average day cannot exceed the two bases divided by 730, which is 6,827.40 roubles, so 140 days pay at most 955,836 roubles. It cannot be below 27,093 × 24 ÷ 730 = 890.73 roubles, the minimum-wage figure, so 140 days pay at least 124,702.20 roubles. A regional coefficient raises the minimum. With under six months of insurance a full calendar month pays no more than the minimum wage.
The length. The benefit is 100% of average earnings for every calendar day of the leave: 70 days before the birth and 70 after it, 140 in all; 156 after a complicated birth; 180 when twins are found only at the birth; and 194 for a multiple pregnancy known in advance. The calculator also shows the last day of the leave and the day the child-care leave can begin.
Tax. Maternity benefit is a state benefit that Tax Code art. 217 leaves untaxed, so the whole amount is paid.
What it does not do. Replacing 2024 or 2025 by earlier years after a previous maternity or child-care leave, part-time work, adoption and the one-off birth grant are left out. The figures come from the texts read on 17 October 2026. For sick pay, which uses the same years but divides by 730, see the sick pay calculator.
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Maternity benefit equals average daily earnings times the days of leave. The average is the 2024 and 2025 earnings, each up to its maximum base, divided by 731 days minus sick and child-care days. On 80,000 roubles a month the day is 2,626.54 roubles, and 140 days pay 367,715.60 roubles.
Average daily earnings cannot exceed (2,225,000 + 2,759,000) ÷ 730 = 6,827.40 roubles. A 140-day leave therefore pays at most 955,836 roubles, a 156-day leave 1,065,074.40 roubles and a 194-day leave 1,324,515.60 roubles, whatever the salary was.
When earnings were low or missing, the average day is the minimum wage times 24 divided by 730: 27,093 × 24 ÷ 730 = 890.73 roubles. A 140-day leave then pays 124,702.20 roubles, and a regional coefficient raises that figure in the districts that have one.
Under art. 10 of Law 255-FZ the leave is 70 days before and 70 after the birth, 140 in all. A complicated birth adds 16 days for 156, twins found at the birth give 180, and a multiple pregnancy known in advance gives 84 plus 110, or 194 days.
No tax is withheld. Art. 217 of the Tax Code exempts state benefits except sick pay, so maternity benefit is paid in full. On 80,000 roubles a month the whole 367,715.60 roubles for 140 days reaches the mother, unlike vacation or sick pay.
Days of sick leave, of maternity leave and of child-care leave in 2024 and 2025 are taken out of the period, together with any release from work with pay that bore no insurance contributions. Leaving out 31 days on 80,000 roubles a month raises the average day to 2,742.86 roubles.
Rates and rules change; check the source before you rely on a figure.
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