Holiday pay calculator for hourly employees
Holiday pay (vacation pay) for an hourly employee in Sweden is 12% of their pay. If Sara earned SEK 15,180 in October, that is SEK 1,821.60. The rule is called the percentage rule and is in the Annual Leave Act (semesterlagen, section 16 b).
Type in the pay for the period, or hours and rate, and the calculator does the rest.
Holiday pay on hourly wages
All pay for the period, including OB and overtime. Not holiday pay already paid.
25 under the Annual Leave Act. More days give a higher rate.
Before tax. Sick leave and other absence that counts towards holiday pay raises the base and is not included here. Collective agreements may have other rules.
Not sure what the pay came to? Download a report for the period in Klokka, with hours and pay per person.
Try Klokka for freeWhat the 12% is worked out on
The Act says 12% of the employee's "pay due in an employment during the qualifying year" (section 16 b). The qualifying year is the year before the holiday year, and the holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March (section 3).
The percentage rule applies to anyone whose pay is not set per week or month, which means anyone paid by the hour (section 16). According to verksamt.se, all pay counts, including unsocial-hours supplements (OB), shift allowance, overtime pay and travel-time pay. Holiday pay already paid does not count.
Up to 180 days of sick absence per qualifying year count towards holiday pay (section 17). The pay base is then raised by what the employee would have earned (section 16 b), and you add that amount yourself.
If you give more than 25 days of holiday, the rate goes up by 0.48 percentage points for each extra day. 30 days makes 14.4%.
Holiday pay while on leave, or holiday compensation at the end?
Swedish has two words. Semesterlön is paid while the employee is on holiday (section 26). Semesterersättning is paid instead when the employment ends before the holiday has been taken (section 28), worked out the same way (section 29).
It is due no later than one month after the employment ends (section 30). For an employment meant to last at most three months you may agree on no holiday leave, and the employee gets semesterersättning instead (section 5). According to verksamt.se it may then be paid with the wages, shown separately on the payslip.
Collective agreements may depart from the rules on how holiday pay is calculated and paid (section 2 a). If you have one, start there.
Getting the base right with Klokka
The percentage is easy. Knowing what the pay came to is harder. In Klokka you download a report for any dates, for example 1 April to 31 March, as a PDF or Excel file. With Show pay to employees on, it has hours and amounts per person. More on PDF and Excel reports.