Jordan annual leave calculator 2026

14 days on full pay for each year of service, rising to 21 days once the worker has completed 5 continuous years with the same employer; anyone with less than a year of service gets leave in proportion to their time.

Leave is on full pay. If the worker's service ends for any reason before they use their leave, they are entitled to pay for the unused days (Article 63). In Article 2 the wage includes all entitlements except overtime pay. Leave postponed by agreement lapses if the following year passes without a request to use it, and if the employer refused to grant leave and two years have passed, the worker is paid cash in lieu (Article 61).

Official holidays, religious feasts and weekly days off do not count towards annual leave (Article 61), so it is counted in working days. A split part of the leave may not be less than 2 days (Article 62). The official consolidated version on the open data portal includes amendments up to 2019, and we compared Articles 56, 59, 61 and 63 with a newer consolidated version (up to 2026) on a private legal website and found them identical. The daily divisor is not written in the law, so the calculator does not assume one.

Labour Law No. 8 of 1996 as amended: Article 2, Article 61, Article 62, Article 63, Article 64.

1. Daily wage = the total monthly salary ÷ 30 (the law sets no divisor, so we use 30, the common practice) = 29.25 JOD on the example salary.
2. Pay for unused leave = unused days × daily wage: 15 × 29.25 = 439 JOD.