Paid Time Off Value
Value your annual paid leave days in salary terms.
About Paid Time Off Value
Your daily rate comes from spreading the salary over working days, and multiplying by paid days off prices the whole allowance. Paid leave is part of your compensation, so valuing it makes job offers with more days off easier to compare fairly.
Formula
Paid Time Off Value
PTO value = daily rate x paid days off; daily rate = salary / work days
- paid days off
- Annual paid leave days
Worked example
With the default values below, Paid Time Off Value returns Daily Rate of $230.77. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Annual salary
- 60,000
- Paid days offminimum 0
- 20
- Work days per yearminimum 1
- 260
Results
- Daily Rate
- $230.77
- PTO Value
- $4,615.38
- PTO Share of Year
- 7.69%
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2Paid Time Off Value
- 3Daily Rate= 230.77
- 4PTO Value= 4,615.38
- 5PTO Share of Year= 7.69
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 3 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax or fees or charges into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is Paid Time Off Value calculated?
PTO value = daily rate x paid days off; daily rate = salary / work days Your daily rate comes from spreading the salary over working days, and multiplying by paid days off prices the whole allowance.
Why does Paid Time Off Value matter?
Paid leave is part of your compensation, so valuing it makes job offers with more days off easier to compare fairly.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 3 inputs: Annual salary, Paid days off, Work days per year. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.