Kuwait annual leave calculator 2026

30 paid days a year, earned for the first year after at least 6 months of service under the 2017 amendment (9 months in the original text), with leave for fractions of a year.

Leave pay is paid before the leave starts (Article 71), and when the contract ends the worker is entitled to cash in lieu of their accumulated leave balance (Article 73). Entitlements are calculated on the last wage the worker received (Article 62), the wage includes regular allowances (Article 55), and the daily leave wage is calculated by dividing the salary by the actual working days, excluding weekly rest days (Article 67).

Under Law No. 85 of 2017, weekly rest days, public holidays and sick leave do not count towards annual leave, so in practice it is 30 working days. We could not reach the Official Gazette text of Law 85 of 2017 directly (the Public Authority for Manpower website was unavailable at the time of checking), so we relied on the GLMM database summary and the Mondaq summary. We found nothing confirming that the 2019 proposal to raise leave to 35 days was passed. The divisor of 26 is derived from Article 67 for a 6-day working week.

Private Sector Labour Law No. 6 of 2010: Articles 55, 62, 67, 70 (as amended by Law No. 85 of 2017), 71, 72 and 73.

1. Daily wage = the total monthly salary ÷ 26 = 41.54 KWD on the example salary.
2. Pay for unused leave = unused days × daily wage: 15 × 41.54 = 623 KWD.