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Calculation of Leave to Cash

If your accumulate leave has exceeds 42 days you may entitled to convert your accumulated leave into cash. Please refer to Employment Act for more details The following formula shall apply for the purpose of converting accumulated leave into cash:

Salary per year x Number of days entitled
Number of days per year

Annual leave With effect from 1st January 2006, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays shall be excluded in calculating a period of annual leave earned.

Other Calculations 

  1. HOURLY RATE

    Annual Salary ÷ 52 weeks ÷ hrs work per week

    Example: SR 1600 x 12 ÷ 52 ÷ 40 = SR 9.23 
  2. SALARY FOR DAYS WORKED

    Number of days worked x hours worked per day x hourly rate

    Example: 5 days x 8 hours x SR9.23 
  3. ANNUAL LEAVE

    Salary per year x number of days entitled (1.75 days per month) ÷ Number of days per year

    Example: SR 1600 x 12 x 21 ÷ 365 
  4. COMPENSATION

    Salary x 12 x number of hours worked per day x number of days entitled ÷ 52 number of hours worked per week

    Example: SR 1600 x 12 x 8 x 60 days ÷ 52 ÷ 40 hours

    Note: when a person works 8 hrs from Monday to Friday and 4 or 5 hrs on Saturday, the daily hours are calculated on an average.

    Example: 44 hrs ÷ 6 days or 45 hrs ÷ 6 days = working / hours per day
  5. COMPUTATION OF OVERTIME, PUBLIC HOLIDAY AND DAY OFF 

    OVERTIME

    Hours worked x 1.5 or 2 or 3 (as the case may be) x hourly rate

    PUBLIC HOLIDAY

    Number of public holiday entitled x hours worked x hourly rate

    Example: 2days Public holiday x 8 x 9.23

    DAYS OFF

    Number of days off entitled x hours worked x hourly rate

    Example: 2 days off x 8 x 9.23


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