Qatar Final Settlement Calculator

At a glance

Gratuity

3 weeks' basic wage per year (Art. 54)

Gratuity base

Last basic wage (Art. 54 & 72)

Unused leave base

Basic wage (Art. 72)

Notice & unpaid salary

Full wage

Minimum service

1 year for gratuity only

Payment deadline

Next day (Art. 67)

What goes into a Qatari final settlement

Article 54 opens with a phrase worth noticing: the gratuity is due “in addition to any sums to which the worker is entitled upon the expiry of his service”. The gratuity is one line of a settlement, not the settlement itself, and the other lines are owed on their own terms.

Each component below is calculated by the same engine that powers the standalone Qatar calculators, so the gratuity here matches the Qatar gratuity page exactly and the leave figure matches the leave salary page.

The wage base: why Qatar differs from Oman

Article 72 is the provision that decides most of this, and it is short: the wage during annual leave and the end-of-service gratuity are both calculated on the basic wage. One sentence, two components, one base.

That makes Qatar simpler than Oman, where unused leave is encashed on the gross wage while gratuity stays on basic. If you have worked in both countries, do not carry the Omani assumption across: a Qatari leave balance is worth less per day than the same balance in Oman on the same package.

Notice pay and outstanding salary are different in kind. They are wages you would have earned, not statutory awards, so they run on the full wage including allowances. So allowances lift two of the four components in Qatar, against three of four in Oman.

The one-year threshold, and what it does not affect

Article 54 grants the gratuity to a worker “who has completed employment of one year or more”. Below a year there is no gratuity at all, and the fractions-of-a-year clause in the same article operates above that threshold rather than under it. This is a real difference from Oman, where gratuity accrues from the first day with no minimum.

What the threshold does not touch is the rest of your settlement. Accrued annual leave, outstanding salary and any notice pay are owed whatever your length of service, so a worker leaving at ten months is still owed a settlement even though the gratuity line is zero. The calculator shows exactly that rather than returning nothing.

Payment is due the next day, not in seven

Almost every guide to Qatari settlements states that you must be paid within seven days of your last working day. The statute says something stricter. Article 67 requires the employer, where a contract terminates for any reason, to pay the wages and other sums due “before the end of the day following the day on which the contract terminates”.

The seven-day period does exist in the same article, but it is the exception and it applies to a different situation: where the worker abandoned the work without giving the notice required by Article 49. In other words, seven days is the concession the law makes to an employer whose worker walked out, not the standard deadline for an orderly departure.

If you resigned properly, worked your notice and are being told to wait a week, the article to quote is 67, and the deadline you are entitled to is the end of the next day.

What this calculator does not include

Unpaid overtime is owed at settlement but is not included here, because it depends on your hours and the type of day each fell on. Qatar prices rest-day and public-holiday hours at 250%, so an unpaid holiday shift is worth more than a naive daily rate suggests. Calculate it separately and add it.

Also outside the statutory components: repatriation air fare, any contractual benefit more generous than the statutory minimum, and the separate treatment under Article 56 where an employer runs a retirement scheme that pays more than the Article 54 gratuity.

Qatar overtime calculator

How to calculate your final settlement in Qatar

1. 1

   Enter your dates and wage

   Joining date, last working day, monthly basic salary and your fixed monthly allowances.

2. 2

   Add your leave position

   Enter the annual-leave days already taken. The balance is encashed on the basic wage.

3. 3

   Add notice and unpaid salary

   Enter notice days you were not allowed to serve, and any days worked but unpaid.

4. 4

   Subtract what you owe

   Enter advances or loans to be recovered, then read the itemised breakdown.

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