[Housemaids] How To Calculate Your Annual Leave?

In simple terms, annual leave is a paid holiday given by your employer. It’s like taking time off to visit your home country or just relax while still getting paid for those days.

Here’s how it works:

• If you work 5 days a week, you get 20 days of annual leave.
• If you work 6 days a week, you get 24 days of annual leave.

Most housemaids in Cyprus work 6 days a week, so they are entitled to 24 days of paid holiday each year.

It’s also mentioned in the employment contract. The Employee shall be entitled to twenty-four (24) working days annual leave with full pay.

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Employment Contract in English

Employment Contract in Greek

People usually think that they have to take a holiday to get the annual leave money. That’s not true.

You can continuously work for a whole year without going on a holiday, and still, you are entitled to get the money.

Even if you only worked for, say, 5 months, you’re still entitled to your holiday pay.

Confused? Let me explain.

Here is how it works. As I said above, you are entitled to 24 days a year of holiday leave, which means you get 2 days of holiday leave a month.

(1 year has 12 months, 1 month has 30 days, so 2 days every month means 24 days a year.)

As you know now you get 2 days of annual leave holiday in a month. If you only worked for 5 months, you get (5 months * 2 days = 10 Days) annual leave or holiday pay for 5 months.

Most of the housemaids don’t know this; hence, they don’t ask for their holiday money if they haven’t worked for a whole year.

Let’s figure out how much money you exactly should get per day for your holiday leave.

To figure it out, you have to divide your basic salary by 26.

Why 26?
Because there are 4 Sundays in a month, and you usually don’t work on Sundays.

The salary that you get is not for 30 days but for 26 days.

If your salary is 460 Euros per month, then your per day salary should be 17.69 euros.

•  [ 460 Euro / 26 days = 17.69 Euro per day ]

If you worked for 10 months and left the job, how much would be your holiday pay or annual leave?

Let’s calculate. 

10 months means, 20 days of annual pay.
[Each month 2 days annual leave pay and 24 days for 12 months]
Each month’s salary is 460 Euros.
Each day’s salary is 17.69 Euros.

20 days x 17.69 Euros = 353.80 Euros.

Before you leave the job, you are entitled to an annual leave pay of 353.80, even if you only worked for 10 months. 

I hope you got the basic idea of calculating your annual leave pay or holiday pay. 

If you are leaving your current job, where do you plan to work next?

If your plan is to leave Cyprus and look for job opportunities in other European Countries, then you can contact us for personalized advice and consultation to get a work visa in Schengen Countries.