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When the primary text is not accessible to us — the repealed 1962 Qatari law is one example — the page says the figure is taken from secondary sources rather than presenting it as verified.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; which wage the Bahraini SIO uses — basic plus social allowance, or the full contractual wage. 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.
| Date | Page | What was wrong | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 October 2026 | Bahrain calculator and the Bahrain two-claims article | Said the SIO pays the Article 116 formula whatever the contributions add up to, that a pay rise could make the payout exceed the contributions, and that public guidance did not say what happens to missed months. | Resolution 109 of 2023 counts only months for which contributions were paid (Article 8) and caps the award at the contributions paid (Article 10), with the employer paying the difference when the wage rises. The pages now say so. Calculated figures are unchanged: they assume every month was paid, and the calculator says that too. |
| 21 October 2026 | Bahrain calculator and the Bahrain two-claims article | Stated as settled that the SIO wage is basic salary plus social allowance and excludes housing and transport. Gave five working days as the only payment time. | The wage is now marked unsettled: the Resolution, the SIO's guidance and the SIO's advice to employers differ. Both payment times are given: five working days (SIO) and ten (LMRA). |
| 21 October 2026 | UAE calculator | Described the voluntary savings scheme as open to mainland employers, and said an enrolled worker's entitlement is the fund balance. | Free-zone employers other than DIFC and ADGM can join too. An enrolled worker also keeps the gratuity earned before enrolment, calculated on basic salary at the enrolment date. |
| 21 October 2026 | Oman calculator | Said the expatriate savings system was pushed to 19 July 2027. | 19 July 2027 is the latest start date; the Social Protection Fund's board may set an earlier one. The calculator's note now covers that. |
| 11 October 2026 | UAE calculator | Unused annual leave defaulted to the full wage including allowances, while the page and the law use basic salary. | Unused leave now defaults to basic salary. The full-wage option remains for contracts that promise it. |
| 11 October 2026 | Kuwait calculator | Each year after the fifth was counted as 30 days at the ÷26 daily rate, about 15% more than the one month's remuneration in Article 51. | Years after the fifth now use one month's wage. The ÷26 reading some employers use is shown alongside as a note. |
| 11 October 2026 | Saudi Arabia calculator | A resignation on the exact fifth or tenth anniversary was placed in the higher Article 85 tier. | Tiers now step up only once service is more than 5 or more than 10 years, as Article 85 states. |
| 11 October 2026 | Qatar calculator | A contract rate below 21 days a year could be entered and was used as typed. | The calculator now applies the 21-day statutory minimum and says so. |