Ten examples, worked end to end

Every example below is produced by the same calculator that runs on the home page, from the same figures, at the moment this page was built. None of them is typed in by hand, so none of them can drift away from what the tool actually does.

The summary, then the working

Eight of the ten cases below produce a figure. Two do not, and those two are the ones worth reading: they are people a competitor’s calculator answers confidently and wrongly, because it never asks the question that would have stopped it.

Every worked example on this page, with its result. Computed by this site's calculator when the page was built.
The case	Basic salary	Service	Result
Eleven months, then the job ended	10,000.00	0y 11m	0.00
Exactly one year	10,000.00	1y 0m	7,000.00
Three years, resigned	10,000.00	3y 0m	21,000.00
Seven years and six months	10,000.00	7y 6m	60,000.00
Six years, with a long unpaid break	10,000.00	6y 0m	40,000.00
Thirty years on a high basic salary	27,500.00	30y 0m	660,000.00
Four years at half a full-time week	3,000.00	4y 0m	4,200.00
Twelve years on a three-day week	10,000.00	12y 0m	63,000.00
An Emirati in the private sector	10,000.00	8y 0m	No figure — see below
Enrolled in the Savings Scheme	10,000.00	8y 0m	No figure — see below

Every worked example on this page, with its result. Computed by this site's calculator when the page was built. Figures are estimates of a statutory entitlement from the inputs shown, not settlement statements.

Eleven months, then the job ended

The qualifying period is the first thing that decides the answer, and below it the answer is nothing at all — not a reduced amount.

Last basic monthly salary: 10,000.00 AED
Service: 0y 11m

Your period of service, in years0 + 11 ÷ 12

Nothing is due: 0.00 AED

You have 0.92 years of service, and the entitlement begins at 1. Nothing is due yet — but the whole period counts from the day it does, not just the part above the threshold.

Exactly one year

The month that turns eleven into twelve is worth a whole year of accrual, because the floor is an eligibility gate and not a band start.

Last basic monthly salary: 10,000.00 AED
Service: 1y 0m

Your period of service, in years1 + 0 ÷ 12
Your daily wage, from your last monthly basic salary10,000 ÷ 30
Days earned for your first 5 years, at 21 days a year21 × 1
The days, priced at your daily wage21 × 333.33
The statutory ceiling on the total24 × 10,000
Your end-of-service gratuity7,000

Payable: 7,000.00 AED

Three years, resigned

The ordinary case, and the one where readers most expect a penalty for resigning. There is none.

Last basic monthly salary: 10,000.00 AED
Service: 3y 0m

Your period of service, in years3 + 0 ÷ 12
Your daily wage, from your last monthly basic salary10,000 ÷ 30
Days earned for your first 5 years, at 21 days a year21 × 3
The days, priced at your daily wage63 × 333.33
The statutory ceiling on the total24 × 10,000
Your end-of-service gratuity21,000

Payable: 21,000.00 AED

Seven years and six months

The rate steps up after the fifth year and does NOT re-rate the earlier ones. Two band lines, priced separately.

Last basic monthly salary: 10,000.00 AED
Service: 7y 6m

Your period of service, in years7 + 6 ÷ 12
Your daily wage, from your last monthly basic salary10,000 ÷ 30
Days earned for your first 5 years, at 21 days a year21 × 5
Days earned for each year after year 5, at 30 days a year30 × 2.5
The days, priced at your daily wage180 × 333.33
The statutory ceiling on the total24 × 10,000
Your end-of-service gratuity60,000

Payable: 60,000.00 AED

Six years, with a long unpaid break

Unpaid leave does not count toward service. Almost no calculator asks, so almost every one overstates this person.

Last basic monthly salary: 10,000.00 AED
Service: 6y 0m
Unpaid leave: 180 days

Your period of service, in years6 + 0 ÷ 12
Your period of service, after removing unpaid leave6 − 180 ÷ 360
Your daily wage, from your last monthly basic salary10,000 ÷ 30
Days earned for your first 5 years, at 21 days a year21 × 5
Days earned for each year after year 5, at 30 days a year30 × 0.5
The days, priced at your daily wage120 × 333.33
The statutory ceiling on the total24 × 10,000
Your end-of-service gratuity40,000

Payable: 40,000.00 AED

180 days of unpaid leave were taken off your period of service — that is 0.5 of a year — because unpaid leave does not count toward it.

Thirty years on a high basic salary

The ceiling is the last operation, and it is where a long career stops earning more.

Last basic monthly salary: 27,500.00 AED
Service: 30y 0m

Your period of service, in years30 + 0 ÷ 12
Your daily wage, from your last monthly basic salary27,500 ÷ 30
Days earned for your first 5 years, at 21 days a year21 × 5
Days earned for each year after year 5, at 30 days a year30 × 25
The days, priced at your daily wage855 × 916.67
The statutory ceiling on the total24 × 27,500
Your end-of-service gratuity660,000

Payable: 660,000.00 AED

The statutory ceiling applied. The bands came to 783,750.00 AED, and the ceiling brought it down to 660,000.00 AED.

Four years at half a full-time week

A part-time entitlement is the full-time one scaled by the hours ratio — a rule most tools do not apply at all.

Last basic monthly salary: 3,000.00 AED
Service: 4y 0m
Hours a year: 1,040 of 2,080

Your period of service, in years4 + 0 ÷ 12
Your daily wage, from your last monthly basic salary3,000 ÷ 30
Days earned for your first 5 years, at 21 days a year21 × 4
The days, priced at your daily wage84 × 100
The statutory ceiling on the total24 × 3,000
Your share of the full-time entitlement: 1,040 contracted hours against 2,080 full-time hours a year, which is 50% of it8,400 × 50%
Your end-of-service gratuity4,200

Payable: 4,200.00 AED

Twelve years on a three-day week

Long service on reduced hours: the bands and the ceiling are worked on the full-time figure first, and the hours share is applied to the result.

Last basic monthly salary: 10,000.00 AED
Service: 12y 0m
Hours a year: 1,248 of 2,080

Your period of service, in years12 + 0 ÷ 12
Your daily wage, from your last monthly basic salary10,000 ÷ 30
Days earned for your first 5 years, at 21 days a year21 × 5
Days earned for each year after year 5, at 30 days a year30 × 7
The days, priced at your daily wage315 × 333.33
The statutory ceiling on the total24 × 10,000
Your share of the full-time entitlement: 1,248 contracted hours against 2,080 full-time hours a year, which is 60% of it105,000 × 60%
Your end-of-service gratuity63,000

Payable: 63,000.00 AED

An Emirati in the private sector

Not a smaller number — a different system entirely. The calculator stops instead of answering about the wrong law.

Last basic monthly salary: 10,000.00 AED
Service: 8y 0m

No figure is produced

This calculation is not the one that applies to you, because you are a UAE national working in the private sector. What covers your end of service instead: the legislation regulating pensions and social securities in the UAE (GPSSA).

Enrolled in the Savings Scheme

Their entitlement is an invested balance plus its returns. No formula produces it, so no formula is offered.

Last basic monthly salary: 10,000.00 AED
Service: 8y 0m

No figure is produced

This calculation is not the one that applies to you, because you are an employee enrolled in the Savings Scheme. What covers your end of service instead: the alternative end-of-service benefits system (Savings Scheme) under Cabinet Resolution No. 96 of 2023 — an invested fund balance plus its returns, not a formula.

What these examples are and are not

They are the output of the calculator on the home page, run over the inputs shown, at the moment this page was built — 8 of them producing a figure. They are not settlements. Your contract, your final payslip, and anything you owe your employer all affect what is actually paid, and gratuity is only one line of a final settlement.

If your own case is not here, put it into the calculator: it prints the same working these examples show. And if you want the method rather than the arithmetic, the four steps are set out here.