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Vacation days & payout (Poland)

Statutory annual leave in Poland is 20 days (under 10 years of combined employment and education seniority) or 26 days (10+ years), scaled proportionally by your FTE and rounded up to a full day (26 × 0.7 = 18.2 → 19 days); for part of a year it is scaled by months, again rounded up. The cash equivalent for unused leave (ekwiwalent) is paid per hour of leave using the 2026 statutory coefficient of 20.92, reduced proportionally for part-time contracts.

Seniority sets the entitlement: under 10 years → 20 days, 10 years or more → 26 days (art. 154 § 1 Labour Code). Count education years (e.g. 8 for university) and documented sole-proprietorship (JDG) or mandate-contract periods.
Fraction of a full-time post, e.g. 0.5 or 0.75. The entitlement is proportional and a partial day rounds up: 26 × 0.7 = 18.2 → 19 days (art. 154 § 2). The equivalent coefficient shrinks in the same proportion (§ 19(2) of the regulation).
Calendar months employed this year — 12 for the whole year. For proportional leave (job change during the year) a started month counts as a full month and a partial day rounds up (art. 155¹–155³). A first-ever job (art. 153) is not modelled here.
Leave days already taken this year; one day equals 8 hours of leave, also for part-time staff (art. 154² § 2).
Equivalent base: fixed gross pay components of the month the right arose plus the 3-month average of variable components (§ 15–17 of the regulation). Enter 0 if you only need the days.

Remaining leave days
16
Leave entitlement (days)
26
Remaining leave hours
128 h
2026 equivalent coefficient
20.92
Cash equivalent for 1 day
382.41
Cash equivalent for 1 hour
47.80
Total cash equivalent for remaining days
6,118.40

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The 2026 coefficient 20.92 is (365 days − 52 Sundays − 10 holidays on days other than Sunday − 52 free Saturdays) / 12 (§ 19 of the Polish regulation of 8 January 1997). Equivalent: base ÷ coefficient (reduced proportionally for part-time) ÷ 8 h × hours of unused leave, each step rounded to grosze (§ 18). Documented sole-proprietorship (JDG) and mandate-contract periods also count toward leave seniority.

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