What is your PTO balance worth?
Put in the rate your payroll statement shows. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
- 1 Enter the rate and its unit
- 2 Add your ceiling and hours taken
- 3 Read the balance and what it is worth
Showing 120 hours a year on a biweekly schedule. Change any field to recalculate — nothing is sent anywhere.
Next pay periods
| Pay period | Accrued | Used | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4.62 | 0 | 4.62 |
| 2 | 4.62 | 0 | 9.24 |
| 3 | 4.62 | 0 | 13.86 |
| 4 | 4.62 | 0 | 18.48 |
| 5 | 4.62 | 0 | 23.1 |
| 6 | 4.62 | 0 | 27.72 |
| 7 | 4.62 | 0 | 32.34 |
| 8 | 4.62 | 0 | 36.96 |
Accrued is what that period adds. A period can add less than the rate when the ceiling is close, and nothing once it is reached.
After a full year: 80 hours, worth $2560.00 at $32.00 an hour. 40.12 hours never accrued because the ceiling was reached.
Pay schedules behave differently
The same annual entitlement splits into different per-period numbers, and the edge cases are not the same. Each page below works through one schedule.
- Biweekly 26 periods
- Semimonthly 24 periods
- Monthly 12 periods
- Weekly 52 periods
- Per hour worked per hour
Where a rate is set by statute
Most US accrual rates come from an employer policy, but a handful of jurisdictions fix the rate in law. These are the ones read for this site, converted to a full-time year so they can be compared.
| Statutory rate | Per hour worked | Over 2,080 hours |
|---|---|---|
| Nevada paid leave | 0.01923 | 40 |
| Maine earned paid leave | 0.02500 | 52 |
| Arizona earned paid sick time | 0.03333 | 69.33 |
| Vermont earned sick time | 0.01923 | 40 |
| D.C. paid leave, 100+ employees | 0.02703 | 56.22 |
| D.C. paid leave, 25–99 employees | 0.02326 | 48.37 |
| D.C. paid leave, 24 or fewer | 0.01149 | 23.91 |
Each figure is quoted on that jurisdiction's page, with the statute or agency link.
Covered here: 30 jurisdictions, each with the lines we read and the ones we could not establish.
- My statement shows hours per pay period. How do I know what that is per year?
- Multiply by the number of pay periods: 26 for biweekly, 24 for semimonthly, 52 for weekly, 12 for monthly. The calculator above accepts the figure in any of the three forms and shows the other two, because a per-period number on its own is the figure people most often misread.
- Why does my balance stop growing?
- Because a ceiling was reached. A cap halts accrual for the period rather than deleting hours you already have — Ohio puts it plainly for its own workforce: when the maximum accumulation is reached, pay period accruals cease. Using some hours makes room and accrual resumes for exactly that room.
- Does my employer have to pay out the balance when I leave?
- It depends on the jurisdiction and on the policy. Some places treat earned vacation as wages that cannot be forfeited; others require a payout only where the policy promises one. The by-jurisdiction pages quote the actual source for each.
- Is anything I type here stored or sent?
- No. The calculation runs in your browser and there are no accounts. Nothing is written to a server and nothing is shared.