Holiday pay calculator for irregular hours staff

Enter the hours a worker did in the pay period and what they were paid to see the holiday they build up and the rolled-up holiday pay.

Hours worked in the pay period

Pay for those hours (£)

Total pay for the period, before the holiday pay

Pay period

Figures use 2026/27 rates and simple assumptions, for planning. Ask us to run it on your own figures.

How the figures are worked out

Irregular hours and part-year workers build up holiday at 12.07% of the hours worked in each pay period, for leave years beginning on or after 1 April 2024.
Rolled-up holiday pay is 12.07% of the worker's total pay for the period, shown as a separate item on the payslip.
12.07% is 5.6 weeks of leave spread over the 46.4 weeks a year left for work. Statutory paid holiday is capped at 28 days.
Holiday hours can be rounded to the nearest whole hour: under 30 minutes down, 30 minutes or more up.

Send us a month of till reports and the wage bill and we will work out your real margins, labour cost and VAT position.