Philippines Service Incentive Leave (SIL) calculator

Under Article 95 of the Labor Code, a covered employee who has rendered at least 1 year of service is entitled to 5 days of paid Service Incentive Leave (SIL) a year, which can be used for sick, vacation or other leave purposes.

You become eligible once you complete at least 1 year of service with the same employer. There is no SIL for the months before you reach the 1-year mark; once you pass it, your SIL for the year you are currently in builds up proportionally to the completed months since your last work anniversary.

Per the DOLE Handbook, "one year of service" means service within 12 months, whether continuous or broken, counted from the date you started working. It includes authorized absences, unworked weekly rest days, and paid regular holidays.

Yes. If you do not use all of your SIL, you may choose to commute the unused balance to its cash equivalent, generally at year end. If you resign or are separated before using or commuting it, you are entitled to be paid the cash value of your accrued, unused SIL, computed at your salary rate on the date of conversion.

Article 95 and its implementing rules exclude: government employees; persons in the personal service of another; managerial employees who meet the legal test for that status; officers or members of a managerial staff who meet the legal test for that status; field personnel and others whose time and performance are unsupervised by the employer; employees already enjoying this benefit; employees already enjoying vacation leave with pay of at least 5 days; and employees of establishments regularly employing fewer than 10 workers.

If any of these apply to you, this calculator's statutory floor does not apply to you, though your employer may still grant leave as a matter of company policy.

No. Service Incentive Leave is the statutory minimum under the Labor Code. "Vacation leave" is a separate term commonly used for whatever additional paid leave an employer chooses to grant on top of that floor, as a matter of company policy or a collective bargaining agreement, not a legal requirement.

SIL is a single pool of days that the law allows you to use for sick leave, vacation, or other leave purposes, however your employer's policy describes it. The law does not require separate statutory sick leave on top of SIL for most private-sector employees; some employers choose to grant a separate sick leave allowance as a matter of policy.

No, this tool applies Article 95 of the Labor Code and the DOLE Handbook on Workers' Statutory Monetary Benefits to the details you enter, for general information only. It is not a substitute for your employment contract, your payslip, or guidance from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).