Annual leave hours to days.
Your payslip shows annual leave in hours, but you book time off in days. Divide the balance by your ordinary daily hours: on the standard 7.6-hour day, 152 hours is 20 days or 4 weeks. Use the Hours ↔ Days tab below for your own balance.
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| Component | Formula | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Annual leave hours | 4 wks/yr pro-rata to service | 152.42 hrs |
| Standard day (your roster) | 38h ÷ 5 days | 7.60 h/day |
| Days, 5-day week | 152h ÷ 7.60h | 20.05 days |
| Days, 4-day compressed week | 152h ÷ 9.50h | 16.04 days |
| Days, 8-hour basis (common) | 152h ÷ 8h | 19.05 days |
| Weeks (your hours) | 152h ÷ 38h | 4.011 wks |
| Fortnights | weeks ÷ 2 | 2.01 ftnts |
| Base value | 152h × $35.00 | $5,334.62 |
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The conversion in one formula
Days = leave hours ÷ ordinary daily hours. Everything else is detail. The only figure you need to get right is your ordinary daily hours, and that is where most people go wrong, because they assume 8 hours when the Australian full-time standard is 7.6.
Section 20 of the Fair Work Act 2009 sets ordinary hours for a full-time employee at 38 a week. Spread over 5 days, that is 7.6 hours a day. A 40-hour week over 5 days gives an 8-hour day instead, so the same balance converts to fewer days. Always check your own roster before converting.
Common balances converted
Hours converted to days at both common day lengths, plus the equivalent in weeks for a full-time employee on a 38-hour week.
| Leave hours | Days (7.6h day) | Days (8h day) | Weeks (38h week) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 h | 5.00 | 4.75 | 1.00 |
| 76 h | 10.00 | 9.50 | 2.00 |
| 95 h | 12.50 | 11.88 | 2.50 |
| 100 h | 13.16 | 12.50 | 2.63 |
| 114 h | 15.00 | 14.25 | 3.00 |
| 117 h | 15.39 | 14.63 | 3.08 |
| 152 h | 20.00 | 19.00 | 4.00 |
| 190 h | 25.00 | 23.75 | 5.00 |
Worked example
Sam is full-time on a 38-hour week and his payslip shows an annual leave balance of 117 hours. His ordinary day is 7.6 hours, so his balance is 117 ÷ 7.6 = 15.39 days, or 3.08 weeks. If he books a two-week holiday he will use 76 hours and be left with 41 hours, which is about 5.4 days.
At $35.00 an hour, that 117-hour balance is worth $4,095 at base rate. If he took it as leave with the 17.5% loading most awards add, it would be worth $4,811.63. Check your own figures with the leave loading calculator.
Related tools
To see how a balance builds up in the first place, use the leave accrual calculator. For the value of a balance paid out when you leave a job, use the annual leave payout calculator and read how it is taxed in annual leave payout tax. Full-time accrual figures for the standard roster are on the 38-hour week page, and the longer roster is on annual leave on a 40-hour week.
Hours to days questions.
Converting an annual leave balance between hours, days and weeks.