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Under Article 54 of Qatar’s Labour Law, a worker who completes a full year of service is owed a gratuity of at least three weeks’ wage for each year worked, based on the last basic wage. A basic salary of QAR 10,000 over five years gives at least QAR 35,000; enter your own figures to see the amount and the working.

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End of service gratuityThe minimum under Article 54 of Qatar’s Labour Law
QAR

Your basic salary as stated in your contract or payslip.

1 January 2021

Both days count towards your service.

21 days equal three weeks, the minimum under Article 54. Enter more if your contract grants more.

Estimated gratuity

QAR 35,000.00

Length of service
5 years
Daily wage
QAR 333.33
Per year of service
QAR 7,000.00

The formula with your figures

10,000 ÷ 30 × 21 × 5 = 35,000.00

An estimate of the Article 54 minimum, not legal advice; your contract or a lawyer decides what is due.

About the calculator

About this gratuity calculator

This calculator works out the minimum end-of-service gratuity under Article 54 of Qatar’s Labour Law (Law No. 14 of 2004): three weeks’ wage for every year of service, with part years in proportion, based on your last basic wage. Alongside the amount it shows your length of service, your daily wage and the formula filled in with your own figures, so you can check every step.

Article 54 lets the employer and the worker agree on a higher gratuity, as long as it does not fall below that minimum. If your contract is more generous, such as a month’s pay for each year, raise the number of days’ wage per year and the calculator applies it.

Everything is calculated in your browser, and your salary and dates are never sent to a server. The result is an estimate to help you plan and ask the right questions, not legal advice: your contract and the way your employment ends can change what is due, and your contract or a lawyer who knows the details has the final word.

Quick facts

Price
Free
Sign-up
Not needed
Devices
Desktop, tablet and phone
Where it runs
In your browser; nothing is sent to a server
Legal basis
Article 54, Qatar Labour Law No. 14 of 2004
Method
Basic monthly wage ÷ 30 × days per year × years of service
Default
21 days (three weeks) per year, editable
Step by step

How to use the calculator

  1. Enter your last basic salary

    Type your last basic monthly wage in Qatari riyals, as stated in your contract or payslip.

  2. Pick your service dates

    Choose the day you started work and your last working day; both days count towards your service.

  3. Check the days per year

    Keep 21 days, which is three weeks and the legal minimum, or enter what your contract grants if it is more.

  4. Read the result and the formula

    See your length of service, daily wage and estimated gratuity, with the formula worked through in your own figures.

What Article 54 of Qatar’s Labour Law says

Article 54 of the Labour Law, issued by Law No. 14 of 2004, governs the end-of-service gratuity. It sets five rules:

  • Entitlement: the employer pays a gratuity to a worker who has completed one full year of service or more, in addition to any other amounts due to the worker when the service ends.
  • Amount: agreed between the parties, provided it is not less than three weeks’ wage for each year of service.
  • Part years: the worker is entitled to the gratuity for fractions of a year in proportion to the time served.
  • Basis: the worker’s last basic wage.
  • Deductions: the employer may deduct from the gratuity any amounts the worker owes the employer.

The article also treats a worker’s service as continuous if it ended other than in the cases listed in Article 61 and the worker was re-employed within two months of the date it ended.

The law’s definitions distinguish the basic wage from the wage, which is the basic wage plus increments, allowances and bonuses. That is why the calculator asks for your basic wage alone, as it appears in your contract or payslip.

The formula, with a worked example

The calculator turns “three weeks’ wage” into 21 days of a daily wage, and finds the daily wage by dividing the monthly basic wage by 30:

Minimum gratuity

Gratuity = (basic wage ÷ 30) × 21 × years of service

Example: QAR 10,000 basic salary, five years of service

Daily wage (QAR)
10,000 ÷ 30 = 333.33
Three weeks’ wage, 21 days (QAR)
10,000 × 21 ÷ 30 = 7,000
Years of service
5
Gratuity (QAR)
7,000 × 5 = 35,000

With five years and six months of service the years become 5.5, because six months are half a year, and the gratuity is 7,000 × 5.5 = QAR 38,500. Any days left after the last full month count as 1/365 of a year each.

If your contract grants more than three weeks, such as a month’s wage for each year, enter 30 instead of 21 in “Days’ wage per year” and the first example becomes 10,000 × 5 = QAR 50,000.

What the calculator leaves out

It calculates the gratuity only. It does not add other amounts that may be due when your service ends, it does not deduct anything you may owe your employer, and it does not assess how the way your employment ended affects your entitlement.

Domestic workers, such as drivers, nannies, cooks and gardeners, have a law of their own, Law No. 15 of 2017 on Domestic Workers, so check its provisions instead of relying on this page.

FAQ

Gratuity questions

At its legal minimum: last basic monthly wage ÷ 30 × 21 × years of service, with part years counted in proportion. A basic salary of QAR 10,000 and five years of service give 10,000 ÷ 30 × 21 × 5 = QAR 35,000. Your contract can set a higher rate, never a lower one.

Article 54 grants the gratuity to a worker who has completed one full year of service or more, so a shorter period is not covered by it. Your contract or your employer’s policy may still be more generous, so check them.

Article 54 bases the gratuity on the last basic wage. The law defines the wage as the basic wage plus increments, allowances and bonuses, so allowances such as housing and transport belong to the wage, not to the basic wage. Enter your basic salary as stated in your contract or payslip unless your contract provides a better basis.

Article 54 entitles the worker to a gratuity for fractions of a year in proportion to the time served. The calculator counts each full month as 1/12 of a year and each remaining day as 1/365, so six years and six months count as 6.5 years.

Yes. Article 54 allows the employer to deduct any amounts the worker owes the employer. The calculator shows the gratuity before any deduction, so subtract whatever is properly owed, if anything.

Change “Days’ wage per year” from 21 to 30, or to the number your contract states, and the calculator applies it at once. Article 54 sets three weeks as the floor and allows the parties to agree on more.

Domestic workers, such as drivers, nannies, cooks and gardeners, are covered by their own law, Law No. 15 of 2017 on Domestic Workers. Check its provisions rather than relying on this calculator.

No. It is an estimate of the Article 54 minimum based on the figures you enter. Your contract and the circumstances in which your service ended can change what is due, and your contract or a lawyer decides.

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