End-of-Service Calculator — United Arab Emirates

1. Enter your monthly salary — for this country that means your monthly basic salary (allowances excluded).
2. Enter your total years of service (partial years count proportionally).
3. Choose how the employment ends — resignation can reduce the entitlement in some countries.
4. Read your estimate with its legal basis, and talk to us on WhatsApp if you want it checked.

• Requires at least 1 year of continuous service
• First 5 years: 21 days' wage per year
• After 5 years: 30 days' wage per year
• Partial years are calculated proportionally
• Full gratuity on both resignation and termination
• Maximum cap: 2 years' total wage

Read the United Arab Emirates labour-law quick guide

End-of-service accrues in bands: each year of service earns a fixed slice of wage, and the slice changes once you pass the statutory boundary. These are the UAE Labour Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021) figures the calculator above uses.

The total is capped at 24 months' wage, however long the service. Kuwait aside, few GCC markets cap it at all — this is the single line that most often makes a long-service estimate lower than people expect.

At least 1 year of continuous service is required before anything is owed.

A day's wage is the monthly figure divided by 30, which is why a days-based band is worth slightly less than the same number of thirtieths.

This is the difference most people are actually searching for, and it is the input the calculator will not let you skip.

In United Arab Emirates it makes no difference to the amount. A resignation and an employer termination pay the identical award; the reductions that exist in some GCC markets have no equivalent here. What can still remove the award is dismissal on a statutory ground, which is a separate question from how the employment ended.

The UAE figure runs on BASIC salary only — allowances are excluded, which is why the same take-home pay produces a much smaller gratuity here than in Kuwait. Two separate traps, not one. Free zones: DIFC replaced end-of-service accrual with the DEWS funded scheme, ADGM runs its own arrangement, and most other zones follow the federal rule — if your employer is in a free zone, start with the free-zone calculator rather than this one. Separately, and reaching the mainland too, an employer may have enrolled staff in the federal Alternative (Savings) Scheme under Cabinet Resolution 96/2023 instead of accruing this gratuity — that decision is invisible to this calculator, so ask HR which scheme applies to you.

• UAE Free-Zone Gratuity Calculator — DIFC, DMCC, ADGM
• DIFC DEWS Calculator — Monthly Employer Contribution

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End-of-service is one line on a final settlement, not the whole of it. Three things are owed separately and are not in the figure above:

• Accrued but untaken annual leave, paid out at the rate your leave entitlement is calculated on.
• Notice pay, or pay in lieu of notice where the notice period was not worked.
• Any contractual enhancement above the statutory floor. The law sets a minimum; a contract or a company policy can promise more, and where it does, the higher figure is what is owed.

For an employee with 10 years of service on a AED 1,000.00/month salary, terminated by the employer, the end-of-service benefit is AED 8,500.00 — computed from the same statutory engine that powers the product.