The proportional vacation pay owed in El Salvador when a job ends
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 15 Oct 2026.When a worker in El Salvador is dismissed without legal cause, article 187 of the Código de Trabajo pays the vacation days earned in the unfinished year of service, in proportion to the time worked. Enter the start date and the last day: the calculator counts the days since the last anniversary and pays 15 days plus 30% in that proportion, and adds a completed year not yet taken.
2026 · Rates and rules read from Código de Trabajo de El Salvador, art. 177-187 (Asamblea Legislativa, text with reforms to June 2023) on 15 Oct 2026; they may have changed since.
Enter the monthly salary, the date the job started and the last day of work.
Say whether the worker was dismissed without legal cause or left for another reason.
Mark a completed year whose leave was not taken yet, if there is one.
Read the proportional days, the pay with its 30% premium, and the total owed.
This calculator works out the paid annual leave of the Salvadoran Código de Trabajo, for a full year of service or for the part of a year left when a job ends.
The rule. After a year of continuous work with the same employer, article 177 gives 15 days of leave paid with the ordinary salary for those days plus 30% of it. The calculator takes a monthly salary divided by 30 as the day's pay, the usual reading for a monthly salary, so the vacation pay is 15 x daily pay x 1.30. Article 180 asks for at least 200 days worked in the year; without them nothing is due for that year.
When the job ends. Article 187 pays the vacation days in proportion to the time worked when the worker is dismissed without legal cause or the contract ends with the employer responsible. The calculator counts the days since the last anniversary of the start date (article 179) and pays that share of a full year's vacation pay. A completed year whose leave was not taken is paid whatever the reason the job ended.
The rest of the article, and all 6 questions about El Salvador Vacation Pay Calculator (Vacaciones), are on the El Salvador Vacation Pay Calculator (Vacaciones) page.
Article 177 of the Código de Trabajo gives 15 days of leave after a year of continuous work, paid with the ordinary salary for those days plus 30%. With a monthly salary, a day is the salary divided by 30, so the vacation pay is 15 x daily pay x 1.30, or 65% of one month's salary.
A day's pay is $600 / 30 = $20.00, so 15 days are $300.00 and the 30% premium adds $90.00, for $390.00 in total. The $300 is the normal salary for those days; the $90 premium is the extra the worker receives on top of it.
Yes. Article 187 pays the vacation days in proportion to the time worked when the worker is dismissed without legal cause or the contract ends with the employer responsible. After 184 days of an unfinished year on $600 a month, that is $390 x 184 / 365 = $196.60.
The proportional part of an unfinished year is due on dismissal without cause, not on resignation, under article 187. But if a whole year of service was completed and its leave not yet taken, the employer must pay that vacation whatever the reason the contract ended.
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