Calculate your pay for working on a public holiday. Time-and-a-half (1.5x) for hours worked, plus an alternative paid day off. Enter your details below.
Under the Holidays Act 2003, there are 12 public holidays per year (11 national plus your provincial anniversary day). If you work on a public holiday, you are entitled to time-and-a-half (1.5 times your normal hourly rate) for all hours worked, plus a full alternative paid day off at another time.
If a public holiday falls on a day you would normally work and you do not work, you are entitled to your relevant daily pay or average daily pay for that day. You are paid as if you had worked a normal day.
Waitangi Day and Anzac Day are "Mondayised" if they fall on a Saturday or Sunday. If they fall on Saturday, the following Monday is the public holiday. If they fall on Sunday, the following Monday is the public holiday. Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, and the Day after New Year's Day have separate transfer rules (if they fall on a weekend, subsequent weekdays become the observed holidays for Mon-Fri workers).
Sources: Holidays Act 2003 Part 2 (legislation.govt.nz). Employment New Zealand public holidays guidance (employment.govt.nz).
This calculator provides indicative estimates. Payment depends on your employment agreement, relevant daily pay, and whether the day is an otherwise working day for you.
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