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How much do you get for leave or sick days?

Enter recent salaries and the days off — see the gross amount, the employer's and CNAS's share, and what you take home.

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Month the leave starts

Fill every month at once, then adjust months with bonuses or absences.

MonthEarnings, MDLDays workedApril 202620 working · 27 calendarMay 202620 working · 29 calendarJune 202621 working · 29 calendar

At least 28 calendar days a year. Public holidays are not counted as leave days.

Annual leave pay, grossEstimate
9,882.35MDL
Take-home: 7,913.79 MDL
  • Health insurance (9%)−889.41 MDL
  • Income tax (12%)−1,079.15 MDL
  • Take-home7,913.79 MDL
  • Employer social contributions (24%), on top2,371.76 MDL
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  • Earnings in the last 3 months60,000.00 MDL
  • Days actually worked61
  • Average pay per day worked983.61 MDL
  • Working / calendar days coefficient61 / 85 = 0.7176
  • Average pay per calendar day705.88 MDL
  • Annual leave pay, gross705.88 MDL × 14 days

Estimate under the average salary calculation method (Government Decision 426/2004), for a 5-day working week, excluding the local patron saint's day and personal exemptions. Leave pay is due at least 3 calendar days before the leave starts, or on an agreed date no later than that month's payday (Labour Code art. 117).

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Annual leave

How annual leave pay is calculated

  1. 1 Add up the pay earned in the 3 calendar months before the leave: base salary, supplements, monthly bonuses and overtime.
  2. 2 Divide the total by the days actually worked in those months to get the average pay per day worked.
  3. 3 Multiply by the coefficient: scheduled working days divided by the calendar days of the period, excluding public holidays.
  4. 4 Multiply the average pay per calendar day by the number of leave days.
  • Minimum annual leave is 28 calendar days, excluding public holidays.
  • Months without pay in the reference period are neither dropped nor replaced with other months.
  • Leave pay is due at least 3 calendar days before the leave starts, or on an agreed date no later than that month's payday (Labour Code art. 117(3)).
  • Leave pay is taxed like salary: income tax, health insurance and employer social contributions.
Sick leave

Who pays and how much (2026)

First 5 days, employer (max 15 days a year)
75% of average pay
From day 6, CNAS — record up to 5 years
60%
Record of 5 to 8 years
70%
Record over 8 years
90%
Tuberculosis, AIDS, cancer (CNAS from day one)
100%
Work accident: employer for the first 20 days, then CNAS
100%
Insured income cap per month of 2026
87,000 MDL
  • The base is the insured income of the 12 calendar months before the month the illness began, divided by 12. Months without insured income are replaced by the same number of earlier months with income, up to 36 months back.
  • Each month's income is capped at 5 forecast average monthly salaries for that year: 5 × 17,400 MDL for months of 2026, 5 × 16,100 MDL for months of 2025.
  • CNAS pays per day the monthly amount divided by the number of calendar days in that month.
  • The CNAS part requires a total insurance record of at least 3 years, or 9 months in the last 24. Employer-paid days, tuberculosis, AIDS, cancer and work accidents do not depend on the record.
  • Sick pay runs for up to 180 days per calendar year.
  • The 9% health premium and income tax are withheld from the employer-paid part; the CNAS part carries neither. No social contributions are due on sick pay (Law 489/1999 annex 3).
Worked examples

What the numbers look like

14 days of leave from July 2026

  1. Salary of 15,000 MDL in April 2026, May 2026, June 2026: 45,000.00 MDL.
  2. 61 days worked → 737.70 MDL per day worked.
  3. Coefficient 61 / 85 → 529.41 MDL per calendar day.
  4. Gross leave pay: 7,411.76 MDL.

10 days of sick leave, record over 8 years

  1. Insured income of 15,000 MDL a month over the last 12 months.
  2. Employer: 5 days × 392.44 MDL = 1,962.20 MDL.
  3. CNAS: 90% × 15,000 MDL / 30 days = 450.00 MDL a day × 5 days = 2,250.00 MDL.
  4. Gross total: 4,212.20 MDL.

Documents and deadlines

  • A leave request and the employer's order; next year's leave may be scheduled until the end of the year, in agreement with employee representatives (Labour Code art. 116).
  • The sick leave certificate is issued electronically by the doctor and reaches CNAS automatically; the employer uses it to calculate the days it pays.
  • If you work for several employers, CNAS uses the insured income from all of them, and the benefit is due only if you receive no income from any of them during the sick leave.
  • CNAS reviews the data within 15 calendar days of receipt (up to 45 days if the data is incomplete, Government Decision 108/2005 pt. 17) and pays the employee directly.

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