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PTO Accrual and Payout Calculator

See how fast paid time off builds for a role, per pay period and per hour worked. You also see what an unused balance is worth in dollars when someone leaves.

Before you start

about two minutes, your own figures. Nothing is stored and no sign up is needed.

What you will need. Annual base salary, Hourly wage, Scheduled hours per week, PTO granted per year

Pay

$
$

PTO policy

Total annual paid time off for the role.

Payout

The balance owed at termination, where your policy or state requires payout.

Payout value of the balance

$0
0 hours unused
Accrues per paycheck
0 hrs
Per hour worked
0 hrs

PTO at a glance

Hourly pay rate used
$0
Annual PTO
0 hrs
Accrual per pay period
0 hrs
Accrual per hour worked
0 hrs
Accrual per month
0 hrs
Full year of PTO is worth
$0
Payout of balance
$0
Email yourself this breakdown We send the figures you just produced, with your inputs beside them.

The method

How PTO accrual and payout work

Most employers grant a set amount of paid time off per year and let it build up gradually. That happens either each pay period or for every hour worked. The dollar value matters most at the end, because unused time often has to be paid out when someone leaves.

How this is calculated

Accrual rate

Per pay period accrual is the annual PTO hours divided by the number of paychecks in a year. Per hour worked accrual is the annual PTO hours divided by the hours a full-time employee works in a year. That is about 2,080 at 40 hours a week.

Payout value

The payout is the unused balance in hours times the hourly pay rate. For a salaried employee, the hourly rate is the annual salary divided by 2,080.

Carry this into the decision

Handling a departure?

Accrued PTO payout is one piece of a clean exit. The Discipline and Termination Decision Kit gives you the decision guide, checklists, and documentation to run the rest properly.

See the kit

$89. 30 days. Reply to your receipt or email support@truestephr.com for a full refund. No form or explanation is required, and you keep the files.

Related

More free tools and the notes behind them

This tool estimates from the figures you enter. It is general information rather than legal, tax, or accounting advice, so check the result against your own records before you rely on it.

Use the number

The calculation is the start of the decision.

Keep the result, move the live assumptions into an editable workbook, and put the number to work inside the matched kit.

01 · Calculate

Run the free analysis

Change the inputs until the result reflects the business you actually operate.

02 · Keep and model

Email the breakdown

Use the result form on this page, then carry the assumptions into the editable version.

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03 · Decide

Apply it to the live issue

Apply the number inside the matched kit, and add a Setup Session if you want it running on your numbers.

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