Annual Leave Calculator
Works out how many paid leave days have accrued by joining date or fiscal year, including the first-year rule.
근로기준법 §60 (Labour Standards Act, art. 60) gives 15 days after a full year, one extra day every two years from the third to a ceiling of 25, and — separately — one day per completed month during the first year. Companies apply it either from your joining date or on a fiscal-year basis, and the two give different answers mid-career.
Start date
Days of leave
Accrued this year
16 days
Service
3 yr (1349 days)
Accrued since joining
57 days
A year or more: 15 days + (years of service − 1) ÷ 2, rounded down, capped at 25
= 15 + ⌊(3 − 1) ÷ 2⌋ = 16 days (근로기준법 제60조)The extra day arrives every two years from the third — ⌊(years − 1) ÷ 2⌋ — so the third, fifth and seventh year, not the second. Since the 2018 amendment the 11 days accrued in the first year are no longer deducted from the 15 of year two.
How leave accrues
| Service | Leave |
|---|---|
| Year 1 | 15 days |
| Year 2 | 15 days |
| Year 3 | 16 days |
| Year 4 | 16 days |
| Year 5 | 17 days |
| Year 6 | 17 days |
| Year 7 | 18 days |
| Year 8 | 18 days |
| Year 9 | 19 days |
| Year 10 | 19 days |
Counted from the start date. A company running leave on its financial year pro-rates the first year instead.
How to use it
Enter the joining date
The accrual is computed to a reference date you choose, so you can check what you have now or what you will have at the end of the year.
Choose the basis your company uses
입사일 기준 and 회계연도 기준 are both lawful. The fiscal-year basis pro-rates the first year, which is why a colleague who joined a month before you can have a different balance.
Read the first-year days separately
Up to 11 days accrue monthly before the first anniversary. Since the 2021 amendment these no longer reduce the 15 days that follow, so an employee who uses none of them can have 26 days available across the first two years.
Common questions
Does the company have to pay for unused days?
Ordinarily yes, as 연차수당. But an employer that has properly run the 연차사용촉진 procedure under 근로기준법 §61 (Labour Standards Act, art. 61) — written notice at the set times, in the set form — is relieved of the payment. Whether the procedure was properly run is the question that actually decides it.
Does this apply to a workplace with four employees?
No. 근로기준법 §60 applies to workplaces with five or more employees. Below that there is no statutory annual leave, whatever this calculator computes from the dates.
What does this not account for?
The 80% attendance requirement, unpaid leave and periods of suspension, parental leave treated as attendance by a later amendment, and any company rule more generous than the statute. It computes the statutory accrual from dates; your own record decides the rest.
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