Finnish holiday bonus calculator
Enter your monthly salary, the full months in your holiday year and your collective agreement’s bonus rate to see the holiday bonus gross and take-home.
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On a €3,000 monthly salary with a full holiday year of 30 working days of leave, a 50 % holiday bonus (lomaraha) comes to €1,800 gross per the calculator, about €1,437 after tax in Helsinki. The holiday bonus is not in the Annual Holidays Act: it comes from collective agreements (TES), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration gives 50 % of holiday pay as a typical example, usually paid with the summer holiday. The law gives you 2.5 working days of leave for each full month, or 2 days if your job had lasted less than a year by the end of March. A month counts when you worked at least 14 days or 35 hours. The calculator values a holiday day at your monthly salary divided by 25, the divisor the Act uses for holiday compensation, then applies your agreement’s rate. Tax is withheld at the same tax card rate as your salary, and the employee pension and unemployment contributions apply too. Your agreement sets the exact rate and payment date.
Holiday bonus, gross
€1,920
About €1,504 take-home
| Holiday days (12 full months) | 30 working days |
|---|---|
| Daily holiday pay (monthly salary ÷ 25) | €128.00 |
| Holiday pay for those days | €3,840 |
| Holiday bonus 50% | €1,920 |
| Take-home (withholding 13.5% + employee contributions) | €1,504 |
The holiday bonus comes from collective agreements, not the law; the method and timing vary by sector. Calculation method
Holiday bonus at different salaries
The table assumes a full holiday year of 30 days, a 50% bonus and tax in Helsinki without church tax. Take-home pay reflects the tax card rate and employee contributions.
| Monthly salary | Daily holiday pay | Holiday pay | Bonus | Tax rate | Take-home |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| €2,500 | €100.00 | €3,000 | €1,500 | 9.0% | €1,242 |
| €3,000 | €120.00 | €3,600 | €1,800 | 12.0% | €1,437 |
| €3,500 | €140.00 | €4,200 | €2,100 | 15.5% | €1,603 |
| €4,000 | €160.00 | €4,800 | €2,400 | 18.0% | €1,771 |
| €5,000 | €200.00 | €6,000 | €3,000 | 22.5% | €2,079 |
The share you keep shrinks as pay rises because your tax card rate climbs: about 83% on €2,500, about 69% on €5,000.
How the calculator works
- Holiday days: full months in the holiday credit year (1 April to 31 March) × 2.5, or × 2 in your first year, rounded up.
- Daily holiday pay: monthly salary ÷ 25. The divisor comes from section 17 of the Act, where it applies to holiday compensation; the tool uses it as a standard convention.
- Holiday pay: daily holiday pay × holiday days.
- Bonus: holiday pay × your agreement’s percentage.
Monthly-paid staff simply keep their normal salary during leave, so the holiday pay figure here is only the base for the bonus, not an extra payment. Agreements may define the base differently, for example including shift allowances, so read yours alongside the labour authorities’ guidance.
Few working days a month
If your contract has you working fewer than 14 days a month, holiday pay or compensation is calculated as a percentage: 9.0% of the year’s wages in a job under a year old and 11.5% after a year. On €24,000 of annual pay that is €2,760, and any holiday bonus is calculated as your collective agreement specifies. Untaken leave is paid out as holiday compensation when you leave, and claims expire after 2 years.
Holiday accrual is explained on annual leave accrual and in the Annual Holidays Act. To see how the bonus affects your yearly tax rate, use the tax rate calculator; for an ordinary month, see net pay from €3,000.