Philippines Holiday, Overtime & Night Differential Calculator

About the Philippines Holiday, Overtime & Night Differential Calculator

Work out the pay for a day of work in the Philippines on any kind of day — an ordinary working day, a rest day, a special (non-working) day, a regular holiday or a double holiday — with overtime and the night shift differential, using the Labor Code's premiums as the DOLE's Bureau of Working Conditions computes them. Enter the daily rate (or the monthly salary), pick the date or the kind of day, and enter the time in and out: the calculator splits the shift into the first 8 hours, overtime and the hours between 10 pm and 6 am by itself.

The regular holidays and special days proclaimed for the year are built in, so choosing a date sets the kind of day. Monthly-paid employees see how much of the day is already in their salary and how much is paid on top. The rates of all ten kinds of day are listed for your own rate, and several days can be added up into a pay period and downloaded as a CSV file. Everything runs in your browser.

Common uses

• Check the holiday and overtime lines on your payslip.
• Work out what a call-centre night shift on a holiday should pay.
• Budget an event or a store opening on a holiday or a special day.
• Add up a cut-off period with holidays, rest days and overtime before payroll runs.

The rates for each kind of day

For the first 8 hours the day pays 100% of the daily wage on an ordinary working day, 130% on a rest day or a special (non-working) day, 150% on a special day that is also the rest day, 200% on a regular holiday, 260% on a regular holiday that is also the rest day, and 300% on a double regular holiday (390% on a rest day). A special (working) day is an ordinary working day. These are the Labor Code's Articles 93 and 94 as the DOLE-BWC handbook computes them in its guide.

Overtime — work beyond 8 hours (Article 87) — adds 25% of the hourly rate on an ordinary working day and 30% of that day's hourly rate on any other day: 125% on an ordinary day, 169% on a rest day or special day, 260% on a regular holiday, 338% on a regular holiday that is a rest day. The night shift differential (Article 86) adds 10% of the hourly rate of every hour worked between 10 pm and 6 am, on the overtime rate for overtime hours: 137.5% for night overtime on an ordinary day, 286% on a regular holiday.

Unworked holidays and “no work, no pay”

An unworked regular holiday is paid at 100% of the daily wage (200% for a double holiday) to an employee who is present, or on leave with pay, on the workday before it; if that day is a rest day or a day off, the last workday before counts. For two regular holidays in a row such as Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, an employee absent the day before loses both unless he or she works the first. Special (non-working) days follow “no work, no pay”, unless a company policy, practice or collective agreement pays them.

Monthly-paid employees are paid for every day of the month — rest days, special days and regular holidays included — so their salary already contains 100% of the day; the handbook uses 365 days a year for them. Working the day adds the rest of the rate on top.

The holidays of the year

The holiday list follows the presidential proclamations that declare each year's regular holidays and special days (Proclamation No. 1006, Proclamation No. 1427) and the Eid'l Fitr and Eid'l Adha holidays (No. 1189, No. 1264). The two Eid holidays are proclaimed separately once their dates are known. Special days declared for a whole region — the National Capital Region, the Cordillera Administrative Region or BARMM, for example (No. 1447, No. 1389, No. 1395) — are listed apart and apply only there. Cities, municipalities and provinces get their own special days by separate proclamations; for those, choose the kind of day yourself. A date outside the years in the list is not looked up.

Who is covered

The holiday pay rule does not apply to retail and service businesses regularly employing fewer than 10 workers, and the night shift differential not to those regularly employing 5 workers or fewer. Government employees, managerial employees and officers, field personnel whose hours are not supervised, and kasambahay (who have their own law) are outside these rules; workers paid by results are outside the overtime and premium pay rules. A collective agreement or employment contract may pay more than these minimums.

Limitations

• The rates are the legal minimums; a collective agreement, contract or company policy may pay more.
• A shift that runs past midnight into a different kind of day is worked out at one rate; enter the hours after midnight as a separate day.
• Compressed work weeks, flexible hours, piece-rate pay and the holiday pay of seasonal or piece-rate workers are not modelled.
• The holiday list has the nationwide proclamations and the region-wide special days; special days of a single city, municipality or province are not in it.
• Not legal advice. For a dispute about pay, contact your DOLE regional office.

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