Where the rules come from
Every rate on this site is traced to an article of law, and that article is named on the line of the settlement it produces. The order of authority is fixed: the text of the law as published by the government concerned first; official guidance from the ministry or social-insurance body second; commentary from law firms practising in that country third. General guides, forums and other calculators are not sources, though they are useful for seeing which errors are common.
When the primary text is not accessible to us — the repealed 1962 Qatari law is one example — the page says the figure is taken from secondary sources rather than presenting it as verified.
Every figure is dated
Each calculator carries a "last verified" date in its header. That is the month in which the rates and articles on that page were last checked against the sources listed at the bottom of it. If a country changes its law, the date tells you whether the page has caught up. A calculator with no date on it is asking you to trust that someone, at some point, checked.
Three of the six countries have changed their rules since 2022 — the UAE's resignation penalty was abolished in February 2022, Oman changed its rate in July 2023, and Bahrain moved expatriate indemnity to the Social Insurance Organisation in March 2024. Each of those has a page explaining the change and a calculator that applies it by date rather than by a rounded number of years.
When the law is unclear
Sometimes the sources disagree, or the law is silent and practice has not settled. Whether Oman still requires a full year of service before anything is due; whether the UAE's two-year cap is measured on basic salary or the full package; whether a misconduct dismissal in the UAE still forfeits gratuity under the 2021 law; what the Bahraini SIO pays a worker whose employer has missed contribution months. On each of these the page says the position is unsettled and shows which reading it has used, so you can ask the right question rather than inherit our guess.
What the calculators cannot do
- They do not know your contract. Several countries set a statutory minimum that a contract may exceed, and a contract that promises more governs. Read yours first.
- They do not give legal advice. They give you the arithmetic and the article, so that a conversation with your employer, a ministry or a lawyer starts from a number you can defend.
- They do not see what your employer declared. In Bahrain in particular, the SIO portion depends on the wage record your employer submitted, which only you can check.
Privacy
Nothing you type is sent anywhere. The calculation runs entirely in your browser, and there is no account, no form and no upload. The site carries no advertising.
Corrections
If you find an error, write to us with the page and the source you are relying on. Corrections to a published rate, article or calculation are listed here with the date, not made quietly.
No corrections have been published yet.