About Final Settlement
A single calculator for UAE end-of-service gratuity, built because most of the ones already online apply a law that was repealed in 2022.
Why this exists
Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021 replaced the 1980 labour law on 2 February 2022 and changed gratuity substantially. The most significant change was that resigning no longer reduces the entitlement — the old one-third and two-thirds scale was repealed outright.
Four decades of articles, forum answers and calculators describe the old rules, and most of it is still indexed and still ranking. Someone checking whether their settlement is correct can very easily land on a figure that is a third too low and looks entirely authoritative.
This site calculates under the current law, shows its working at every step, and where relevant tells you what the repealed scale would have taken — so the difference is visible rather than invisible.
How the figures are produced
- Directly from the statute. The formula is Article 51: 21 days' basic wage per year for the first five years, 30 thereafter, no entitlement below one year, capped at two years' wage.
- Assumptions stated. The daily wage is monthly basic divided by 30, the convention used throughout UAE practice. Every page that relies on it says so rather than burying it.
- Working shown. Each calculation displays the service period, the daily wage, both day bands and the total, so any figure can be checked by hand.
- Dated. Every page carries the date it was last reviewed against the law.
What this is not
It is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for it. A calculator cannot read your contract, see your employer's records, or judge what a tribunal would make of contested facts. Gratuity disputes usually turn on precisely those things rather than on the arithmetic.
It also does not cover DIFC or ADGM, which operate their own employment regimes outside the federal law, nor domestic workers, who are covered by separate legislation.
Where real money is at stake, take the figure to a UAE-qualified lawyer or to MOHRE. The calculator is a way of knowing whether a number looks wrong, not a way of settling whether it is.
Corrections
A site that explains the law has no business being precious about being wrong. Amendments go onto the affected page with the date they were made. The sharpest ones tend to arrive from people who deal with UAE employment matters for a living. Write to us.
Who writes this
A small independent team. We are not a law firm, not a recruiter, and hold no affiliation with MOHRE or any other government body — nor with any employer whose settlement you might be checking. Reach us through the contact page; what pays for the site is set out in full on the funding page.
Last updated 2026-09-19.