Cambodia Annual Leave Calculator

About this tool

The Annual Leave Calculator works out how much paid annual leave a Cambodian employee has built up between their first day of work and a chosen date, using the accrual rule in Articles 166 and 167 of the Labour Law. Enter the employment start date and the date you want to measure to — today by default — and the page returns the complete months and full years of service, the current annual entitlement, the monthly accrual rate, total accrued days and the remaining balance after any leave already taken. It also lists the next seniority milestones and can show a month-by-month accrual schedule. HR teams use it to answer a leave request, to settle a leaver’s balance and to explain a policy; employees use it to check entitlement before booking a trip. It does not decide whether leave was granted or refused, does not apply a company carry-over or forfeiture rule, does not handle public holidays, probation periods or fixed-duration contract termination pay, and does not compute seniority indemnity, which is a separate entitlement. The optional payout section is an estimate only, not a legal settlement figure. None of it is legal or tax advice.

How it works

The arithmetic is in `cambodia-annual-leave-core.ts` and runs in the browser. It counts complete calendar months between the two dates — a month counts only once the day-of-month is reached, so 15 January to 14 February is zero months and 15 January to 15 February is one. For each complete month it accrues one twelfth of the annual entitlement that applied at that point in service: 18 days a year for the first three years, then 19, 20 and so on, one extra day for every further three years of continuous service. A start of 15 January 2022 measured to 21 October 2026 therefore gives 57 complete months, 4 full years, one seniority block and 87.25 accrued days at an entitlement of 19 days a year. Days taken are subtracted from the accrued total and the balance is floored at zero. The page also shows the next three milestones at 6, 9 and 12 years. The optional payout values each leave day at one working day’s wage — the tool divides the monthly salary by 26, the working-day count Ministry of Labour Instruction №058 lists for a standard six-day week (the instruction also allows 22 or 24 for establishments on shorter schedules) — and does not convert currency.

Use cases

• An HR officer answering a leave request by checking the employee’s accrued balance to today
• A garment factory supervisor confirming how many days a worker has left before the Khmer New Year break
• An accountant settling a leaver’s unused leave and needing the accrued total at the last working day
• An employee checking whether three years of service has already added the extra day to their entitlement
• A small-business owner writing a leave policy who needs the statutory baseline to compare against
• An NGO HR manager preparing a month-by-month accrual schedule for a donor compliance file
• A worker on a fixed-duration contract checking how much leave accrues before the contract ends

Frequently asked questions

• What is the statutory annual leave entitlement in Cambodia?

  Article 166 of the Labour Law grants one and a half working days of paid annual leave for each month of service, which is 18 days for a full year. Article 167 adds one extra day of annual leave for each period of three years of continuous service with the same employer, so the entitlement becomes 19 days after three years, 20 after six and so on. The calculator applies exactly that rule and nothing else.

• Are partial months counted?

  No. The page accrues only complete calendar months, counted from the day of the month the employment started. Starting on 15 January and measuring to 14 February gives no complete month; measuring to 15 February gives one. Employers may round up or grant pro-rata under a contract or collective agreement, and this page will not show that more generous result.

• How does the payout value each leave day?

  At one working day’s wage, because Labour Law Article 167 indemnifies untaken leave at the wage the worker would have earned. The tool divides the monthly salary by 26 — the working days in a standard six-day-week month under Ministry of Labour Instruction №058 — so a 1,200,000 KHR salary values a leave day at about 46,154 KHR and 87.25 accrued days at about 4.03 million KHR. This page always divides by 26, so at a workplace on a five- or five-and-a-half-day week the payout estimate runs low — Instruction №058 would divide by 22 or 24 there; scale the result accordingly or confirm the figure against payroll policy.

• Does unused leave carry over to next year?

  This calculator does not answer that. Carry-over, forfeiture and payment in lieu depend on the employment contract, the internal policy and how the Labour Law is applied in practice, and none of those rules are modelled here. The page only computes statutory accrual and subtracts the days you say were taken, so a balance it shows may not be the balance your employer will honour.

• Does it account for public holidays and weekends?

  No. Accrual is expressed in working days of leave, and the page does not place those days on a calendar, skip public holidays or check whether a requested date falls on a rest day. To count working days between two dates for a settlement or a notice period, use the working days calculator, which uses the same holiday dataset for 2025 to 2027.

• Is this official, and can I use it in a dispute?

  No. It is an unofficial calculator built from Articles 166 and 167, and it carries no authority from the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. It is useful for a quick check and for preparing a question. In a dispute the documents that matter are the contract, the attendance and leave records and the payslips, and the forum is the labour inspectorate or the Arbitration Council.

• What does the month-by-month schedule show?

  Every complete month since the start date, with the days accrued in that month, the running cumulative total and the annual entitlement that applied. It is hidden until you expand it, and it is useful when an employee’s service crosses a three-year boundary, because you can see exactly which month the extra day started to accrue. Long service produces a long table.

• Does the calculator handle probation or a change of contract?

  No. It assumes continuous service from the single start date you enter. It does not model a probation period that does not count toward seniority, a break in service, a change from fixed-duration to undetermined-duration contract, or a transfer between employers in the same group. If any of those apply, the accrued figure will be wrong and should be rebuilt from the actual service record.

Data and accuracy

Content last reviewed 21 October 2026