Your Gratuity, Calculated Clearly. No Guesswork. It's Free
Give it three details and it prices your service the way the labour law does: rate bands, service years, caps, then the figure you leave with. It covers the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait, and it shows the working for every line.
Price your service
Select your country to start
Your dates, and how it's ending
The wage the law counts
Your estimated entitlement
Priced from your dates, your basic wage and the rules currently in force where you work.
An estimate based on the country you selected and the details you entered, not a legal determination. Your contract or circumstances can change it.
What this was calculated fromThe figures you entered, and the rule they were read against
What you are owedStatutory entitlement, plus anything else your answers point to
The working
Each year of service, priced
The rest of your final settlement
Gratuity is usually the biggest line on a final settlement, but rarely the only one. This list shows what the estimate already counts, what it leaves out, and the reason in each case.
Four things decide what you're owed
Take away the legal wording and every gratuity calculation in the region asks the same four questions.
What each labour law actually pays
The same two words, end of service, hide six different sets of rules. Open a country for its formula, its salary basis and its exceptions.
> Year 6 onward: 30 days' basic pay for each year
> Ceiling: the total can never exceed 24 months' basic pay
> Year 6 onward: 30 days' wage (a full month) per year
> Resigning before 10 years shrinks the total
> The law sets a floor, not a ceiling: employers may pay above it
> Year 4 onward: 30 days' wage per year
> Before 31 Jul 2023: 15 days a year for the first 3 years, then 30, as the previous law set
> Year 6 onward: one month's wage for each year
> Ceiling: 18 months' wage in total
Every rulebook on one screen
A reference for HR and payroll teams working across borders. For a personal figure in any of these countries, run the calculator above with that country selected.
| Country | Salary Basis | Service Rule | Calculation Method | Key Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Arab Emirates | Basic salary only | 1-year minimum, resigning costs nothing | 21 days/yr to year 5, then 30 | Total capped at 24 months' pay |
| Saudi Arabia | Last contractual wage (allowances per contract) | No minimum service; resignation pays 0, a third, two thirds or all | 15 days/yr to year 5, then 30 | No qualifying year, and the region's steepest resignation penalty |
| Qatar | Basic salary only | 1-year minimum, exit route irrelevant | A flat 21 days per year | No ceiling anywhere in the law |
| Bahrain | Basic wage + social allowance | 1-year minimum, exit route irrelevant | 15 days/yr to year 3, then 30 | SIO handles payment for many expats |
| Oman | Basic salary only | 1-year minimum | A month per year since Aug 2023, tiered before | Straddling service is priced under both laws |
| Kuwait | Basic wage; 26-day month for years 1–5 | Sliding scale for open-contract resignations | 15 days/yr to year 5, then a month's wage | 18-month ceiling; 26-day month in the first band only |
The legislation behind each formula
Every formula on this page traces back to a named article of a named law. This is the list, along with the authority that publishes each one.
- Source
- Ministry of Human Resources & Emiratisation (MOHRE)
- Rule checked
- Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021, Article 51
- Review status
- Current · v2.1
- Source
- Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (HRSD) / Qiwa
- Rule checked
- Saudi Labor Law (Royal Decree M/51), Articles 84, 85 & 87
- Review status
- Current · v2.1
- Source
- Ministry of Labour (MOL)
- Rule checked
- Qatar Labour Law No. 14 of 2004, Article 54
- Review status
- Current · v2.1
- Source
- Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) / Social Insurance Organisation (SIO)
- Rule checked
- Bahrain Labour Law No. 36 of 2012, Article 116
- Review status
- Current · v2.1
- Source
- Ministry of Labour
- Rule checked
- Royal Decree No. 53/2023, Article 61 (effective 31 Jul 2023); prior Royal Decree No. 35/2003
- Review status
- Current · v2.1
- Source
- Public Authority for Manpower (PAM)
- Rule checked
- Kuwait Labour Law No. 6 of 2010, Articles 51–53
- Review status
- Current · v2.1
CV Warehouse is not a law firm, and no calculator can promise a legally exact settlement. Before money moves, confirm the figure with your employer's payroll team or the labour authority for your country.
Written for the employee. Kept open by payroll.
Most people find this page the week they decide to leave. The working underneath is detailed enough that HR teams use it too.
End-of-service questions, answered
Take an employee in the UAE on an 8,000 dirham basic salary who leaves after exactly seven years. Daily pay is 8,000 divided by 30, which is 266.67. The first five years earn 21 days each: 266.67 times 21 times 5 comes to 28,000. Years six and seven earn 30 days each: 266.67 times 30 times 2 comes to 16,000. The entitlement is 44,000 dirhams. The calculator does this for whatever dates and wage you give it, and prints each year as its own line.
Basic salary, in five of the six countries. If your payslip shows 15,000 but your basic is 5,000, the law prices your service on the 5,000. The exceptions are Saudi Arabia, where the wage your contract defines is what counts, and Bahrain, which adds the social allowance where one is paid.
In the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, no. Since the UAE's 2022 law in particular, a resigning employee and a dismissed one use the same formula. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are the two to watch: resign early there and the award is cut to a fraction or to nothing, on sliding scales that run to ten years of service.
In this calculator, yes. If you start on 1 January and your last working day is 31 December, you have completed exactly one year and you qualify. Tools that stop counting the day before can put you one day short of a full year, which at the eligibility line is the difference between a payout and nothing.
Days of unpaid leave come out of your qualifying service before the formula runs. Thirty unpaid days shortens your service by roughly a tenth of a year, which matters most when you are close to a threshold: the one-year eligibility line, or the five-year band change.
Because Omani law changed on 31 July 2023, from a tiered scale to a flat month per year. Service before the change is priced under the old scale and service after it under the new one, and the two are added. If all your service falls on one side of that date, you'll see a single method instead.
In two countries. The UAE stops at 24 months of basic pay, roughly reached after 24 and a half years of service, and Kuwait stops at 18 months. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman set no ceiling, so long service keeps accruing.
Depends where you are. In Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait, a proven gross-misconduct dismissal cancels the entitlement under each country's own article. The UAE removed that rule in 2022: an employer there needs a court judgment on actual damages to withhold anything.
Usually several things: payment for untaken annual leave, notice pay if you were dismissed without working your notice, any wages still owed, and often a one-way ticket home for expatriates. The calculator has an optional section for these, and the result includes a checklist showing which ones apply to your situation.
Possibly both of you. A contract can promise more than the legal minimum this tool calculates. HR may also be using a different salary figure, counting your service differently, or applying an internal policy on rounding. Print this page's working and compare it line by line with theirs; the difference is usually in one identifiable assumption.
Yes. The result page has a print button that produces a dated summary with your inputs, the year-by-year working, and signature lines, ready to save as a PDF from the print dialog or to hand to HR.
Each country's formula is tied to a named article of its labour law, listed in the sources section, and the engine behind the page carries a regression suite that reruns dozens of scenarios whenever anything changes. Laws do move, so the page also shows a review status per country.