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Holiday Pay Calculator

Enter your hours, hourly rate and holiday multiplier to find your holiday pay.

How it is calculated

Three numbers are multiplied. First the regular pay for the hours: regular = hours × hourly rate. Then holiday pay = regular × multiplier, and the extra part is premium = holiday pay − regular. The multiplier is the total factor, not just the bonus: 1.5 means each hour pays one and a half times the normal rate, so the premium is half of the regular amount. The form starts with 1.5, and all three values must be above zero. Amounts are shown in dollars and are gross, before tax. The tool does not know which days count as holidays or what your employer or country requires, so use the multiplier from your contract or policy.

Worked example

You work an 8-hour shift on a public holiday, your normal rate is 18.50 an hour, and your employer pays time and a half. Regular pay: 8 × 18.50 = $148.00. Holiday pay: 148 × 1.5 = $222.00. The premium for working the holiday is 222 − 148 = $74.00. At double time (multiplier 2) the same shift would pay $296.00.

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Common mistakes

  • Entering 0.5 as the multiplier because the bonus is "half again". The field wants the total factor, 1.5; 0.5 would pay less than your normal rate.
  • Entering the hourly rate as a monthly or weekly salary figure. The rate must be per hour.
  • Treating the result as net pay. It is gross, so income tax and other deductions come off afterwards.
  • Applying the multiplier to all hours of a long week. If only the holiday shift earns the premium, enter just those hours, not the whole week.
  • Confusing this premium with paid time off for a holiday. Pay for a day you did not work is a different entitlement and is not calculated here.

About this calculator

Holiday pay in this sense is premium pay for hours worked on a designated holiday, not the paid time off some countries mandate. The formula is simple multiplication: hours worked times your normal hourly rate times a holiday multiplier, most commonly 1.5× (“time and a half”) or 2× (“double time”) for days like Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s. Retail, hospitality, healthcare, and logistics employers commonly offer this as an incentive to staff shifts nobody wants, even where it isn’t legally required.

In the United States, the Fair Labor Standards Act does not require any extra pay for working a holiday — holiday premiums are a matter of employer policy or a union contract, not federal law (overtime rules still apply separately if the holiday shift pushes weekly hours past 40). This calculator lets you plug in your hours, base rate, and whatever multiplier your employer uses to see the resulting holiday paycheck line item.

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  • Editorial team

    The multiplier is the whole factor, so 1.5 means the premium is half of the regular pay: 100 on top of 200 for the defaults. Employers sometimes pay a flat extra amount or a day off in lieu instead of a multiplier, and in that case this figure will not match your payslip. Amounts are gross. Does your workplace use a multiplier, a flat bonus or time off?

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