How is annual leave calculated in China?

The 《职工带薪年休假条例》(State Council Order 514, effective 2008-01-01) sets three brackets based on CUMULATIVE working years (across all employers, not just current): under 1 year = 0 days, 1 to under 10 years = 5 days, 10 to under 20 years = 10 days, 20+ years = 15 days. This is a statutory floor — your contract or collective agreement can give more, but not less. New hires in their first calendar year prorate the entitlement to the remaining calendar days. This calculator shows the bracket your tenure qualifies for at today's date.

I've worked at multiple companies — does total tenure count?

Yes. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security interpretation (人社部发〔2008〕3号) is clear that "service years" for annual-leave purposes means CUMULATIVE working time across all employers, including state-owned enterprises, private companies, and most types of military service. Verifiable via your social insurance contribution record (社保缴费记录). To get your true number, enter your FIRST job's hire date in the "Hire date" field and use "Current position start" for tenure at the current employer.

When do I move from 5 days to 10 days of leave?

On the day you complete your 10th cumulative service year. If you started your very first job on 2015-03-15, your 10 days kick in on 2025-03-15 — not the calendar year, not the contract anniversary, the actual decade mark. The employer is required to recalculate your entitlement the day it changes; the easiest way to prove the new threshold is your social insurance record + the original hire-date contract.

How does the 2024 retirement-age delay actually work?

The phased delay (passed 2024-09-13, effective 2025-01-01) does NOT jump everyone to the new age — it slides up by birth cohort over ~15 years. For male workers, the rule is +1 retirement-month per 4 birth-months starting with the 1965-01 cohort, capping at 63. Female cadres (干部) follow the same +1/4-months rule from 1970-01, capping at 58. Female workers (工人) slide faster: +1 per 2 birth-months from 1975-01, capping at 55. This calculator implements the official cohort table, so you get your real retirement date — not the headline number.

Can unused annual leave be carried over or paid out?

By default, leave must be used in the same calendar year, but if the employer requests deferral due to business need, it can roll to the NEXT calendar year only (Art. 5). If you don't take it and the employer doesn't arrange it, you're owed 300% of your daily wage for each untaken day (200% premium + the normal 100% you'd have been paid anyway — Art. 5/Lab. Contract Law). Quitting with unused leave triggers a pro-rata cash settlement based on the calendar days remaining in the year at termination.

HR confirms an employee just crossed the 10-year leave bracket

A payroll specialist gets a query: an employee hired 2015-03-15 says their leave should now be 10 days, not 5. Entering the first-job hire date shows the cumulative tenure tipped past 10.0 years on 2025-03-15, so the new bracket applies from that exact day. The specialist updates the leave balance and cites Order 514's three-tier rule in the reply.

An employee plans a job change and wants to keep leave entitlement

Someone with 9 years 8 months of cumulative service is weighing an offer. The calculator shows they hit 10 years in 4 months, unlocking 10 leave days that carry across employers since the count is cumulative. They time the move for after the decade mark so the next employer must grant 10 days, not reset them to 5.

A worker checks how the 2024 reform shifts their retirement date

A male employee born 1968-06 expects to retire at 60 in 2028. Entering his birth date, sex, and worker status returns both numbers side by side: the old policy date and the phased-delay date about 13 months later under the +1-month-per-4-birth-months cohort table. He adjusts his pension and mortgage payoff plan around the real later date.

A manager schedules an anniversary recognition for the team

A team lead wants to mark each report's work anniversary. Entering each hire date shows the next anniversary and a live day countdown, so the 5-year and 10-year milestones land on the calendar weeks ahead. The lead books the 10-year recognition knowing it also coincides with the leave-bracket jump, making the moment more meaningful.

Work Anniversary & Tenure Calculator — Annual Leave + China Retirement

Work tenure calculator — service years, annual leave entitlement (China), retirement countdown.

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Hire dateCurrent position start (optional)Date of birth (optional, for retirement)

SexPosition type

Total tenure

5 years 0 months 0 days

Total days worked: 1,826

6th work anniversary

2027-06-14

in 365 days

Statutory annual leave

5 days / year

Per 《职工带薪年休假条例》(China State Council Order 514, 2008).

< 1 year: 0 days

1–10 years: 5 days

10–20 years: 10 days

≥ 20 years: 15 days

Retirement countdown

Fill in date of birth + sex + position to see retirement countdown.

All math runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

What this tool does

Free online work-tenure calculator built for China HR teams and employees. Enter your hire date and instantly see total service years, months, and days (the day counter ticks live), your time in the current position, the next work-anniversary date with a countdown, your statutory annual leave under 《职工带薪年休假条例》(State Council Order 514, 2008): 5 days for 1–10 years of cumulative service, 10 days for 10–20 years, 15 days for 20+ years. Add your date of birth, sex, and worker/staff classification to see retirement countdowns under BOTH the original policy (男 60 / 女工人 50 / 女干部 55) and the 2024 phased-delay reform that raises the ceiling to 男 63 / 女工人 55 / 女干部 58, plus an estimate of pension-receiving months based on 84-year life expectancy. 100% client-side — your personal dates never leave your browser.

Tool details

Input: Numbers; The page exposes text boxes, numeric controls, file pickers, or structured inputs depending on the tool.
Output: Live result; The result area focuses on usable output, with copy, download, or preview actions when supported.
Privacy: Browser-side processing; The main tool logic does not call an external API, so inputs normally stay in the current tab.
Save / share: No account required; Open the page and use it; whether results survive refresh depends on the tool.
Performance budget: Initial JS <= 14 KB; No WASM budget is declared, keeping the tool quick to open on mobile.
Best fit: Calculator · HR; Category and role tags drive related tools, internal links, and quick fit checks.

How to use

1. Input

Paste or drop your content into the tool panel.
2. Process

Click the button. All processing is local in your browser.
3. Copy / Download

Copy the result or download to disk in one click.

How Work Anniversary Calculator fits into your work

Use it for fast estimates, comparisons, and planning numbers before you make the final call.

Calculation jobs

Getting a realistic range before a purchase, plan, workout, or schedule decision.
Comparing scenarios by changing one input at a time.
Turning rough assumptions into a number you can discuss.

Calculation checks

Double-check units, dates, rates, and rounding assumptions.
Treat health, finance, tax, and legal outputs as planning aids, not professional advice.
Save the inputs that produced an important result so you can reproduce it later.

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Real-world use cases

HR confirms an employee just crossed the 10-year leave bracket
A payroll specialist gets a query: an employee hired 2015-03-15 says their leave should now be 10 days, not 5. Entering the first-job hire date shows the cumulative tenure tipped past 10.0 years on 2025-03-15, so the new bracket applies from that exact day. The specialist updates the leave balance and cites Order 514's three-tier rule in the reply.
An employee plans a job change and wants to keep leave entitlement
Someone with 9 years 8 months of cumulative service is weighing an offer. The calculator shows they hit 10 years in 4 months, unlocking 10 leave days that carry across employers since the count is cumulative. They time the move for after the decade mark so the next employer must grant 10 days, not reset them to 5.
A worker checks how the 2024 reform shifts their retirement date
A male employee born 1968-06 expects to retire at 60 in 2028. Entering his birth date, sex, and worker status returns both numbers side by side: the old policy date and the phased-delay date about 13 months later under the +1-month-per-4-birth-months cohort table. He adjusts his pension and mortgage payoff plan around the real later date.
A manager schedules an anniversary recognition for the team
A team lead wants to mark each report's work anniversary. Entering each hire date shows the next anniversary and a live day countdown, so the 5-year and 10-year milestones land on the calendar weeks ahead. The lead books the 10-year recognition knowing it also coincides with the leave-bracket jump, making the moment more meaningful.

Common pitfalls

Filling current-employer start date in the "Hire date" field undercounts cumulative tenure. Put your very first job's date there; use "Current position start" for time at this employer.
Assuming the leave bracket changes on a calendar-year boundary. It flips on the exact day you complete 10 (or 20) cumulative years — 2015-03-15 becomes 10 days on 2025-03-15, not on 2025-01-01.
Reading the 2024 reform as "everyone retires at 63". The delay slides up by birth cohort over ~15 years; a 1968-06 male gets roughly +13 months, not the full +3 years.

Privacy

Every calculation runs in your browser — hire date, birth date, sex, and worker/cadre classification never get sent to any server or logged. If you use the share link, only the inputs you typed are encoded into the URL so a recipient sees the same result; skip the share link for anything you'd rather not put in a link. Close the tab and nothing is retained.

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Work Anniversary & Tenure Calculator — Annual Leave + China Retirement

What this tool does

Tool details

How to use

1. Input

2. Process

3. Copy / Download

How Work Anniversary Calculator fits into your work

Calculation jobs

Calculation checks

Good next steps

Real-world use cases

HR confirms an employee just crossed the 10-year leave bracket

An employee plans a job change and wants to keep leave entitlement

A worker checks how the 2024 reform shifts their retirement date

A manager schedules an anniversary recognition for the team

Common pitfalls

Privacy

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