Sick Leave Calculator

Written byOleh Soloninupdated 5 October 2026

Reason for sick leave

Income in 2024

Pay on which social contributions were charged, from every employer.

Income in 2025

Insured service, years

Under six months — enter 0.4: the benefit is capped at the monthly minimum wage.

Days of sick leave

Advanced options

Regional wage coefficient

Raises the minimum-wage floor. Leave 1 if none applies.

Contribution ceiling, first year

Contribution ceiling, second year

Minimum wage

Days of suspended employment or service

Calendar days of an employment contract suspended under Article 351.7 of the Labour Code, or civil service suspended under Article 53.1 of Law No. 79-FZ: they come off the 730.

Result

Take-home21,809.50 ₽
Gross benefit25,068.50 ₽
Income tax3,259.00 ₽
Benefit rate100%
Average daily2,506.85 ₽
Minimum-wage floor890.73 ₽
Daily rate applied2,506.85 ₽
First 3 days paid by employer7,520.55 ₽
Who paysDays 1–3 the employer, the rest the Social Fund

Two years of pay divided by 730

Sickness benefit from two years of earnings, adjusted for insured service, contribution ceilings and the minimum-wage floor. Splits out the employer-paid days.

Sick pay starts from average daily earnings over the two calendar years before the illness, then gets squeezed from both ends. The ceiling is the contribution base — pay above it never entered the social fund, so it does not count. The floor is the minimum wage.

That daily figure is then multiplied by a percentage set purely by insured service: 60 percent under five years, 80 percent from five to eight, 100 percent after eight. Two colleagues on identical salaries can receive amounts that differ by half.

How to use

Choose the reason: your own illness, caring for a child of a given age, caring for another family member, or illness shortly after leaving a job.
Enter your 2024 and 2025 earnings on which social contributions were paid, across all employers.
Enter your insured service and the number of days. With under six months of service, enter 0.4.
If a regional wage coefficient applies where you work, open the extra fields and enter it.

What each reason pays

These are Russian rules under Federal Law No. 255-FZ. For your own illness the employer pays the first three days and the Social Fund the rest; care leave is paid by the fund from day one.

Articles 6 and 7 of Federal Law No. 255-FZ of 29 December 2006.
Reason	Benefit	Days paid
Your own illness or injury	60, 80 or 100% by service	The whole period
Illness within 30 days of leaving a job	60%	The whole period
Caring for a child under 7	100%	Up to 60 days a year, 90 for listed illnesses
Caring for a child aged 7	100%	Up to 15 days an episode, 45 a year
Caring for a child aged 8–15 at home	By service for 10 days, then 50%	Up to 15 days an episode, 45 a year
Caring for a child aged 8–15 in hospital	By service	Up to 15 days an episode, 45 a year
Caring for another family member at home	By service	Up to 7 days an episode, 30 a year

What this calculator shows

The service percentage and the daily average behind the benefit
Which won out — your actual earnings or the minimum-wage floor
The first three days paid by the employer versus the rest paid by the state fund

What to keep in mind

The reference period is the two full calendar years before the year of illness, and the divisor is 730 regardless of leap years, less any days of employment suspended under Article 351.7 of the Labour Code or civil service suspended under Article 53.1 of Law No. 79-FZ.
Contribution ceilings and the minimum wage are editable inputs, so the tool still works for an earlier year.

Where the numbers come from

Checked against Russian Federal Law No. 255-FZ, Articles 3, 6, 7 and 14 · verified September 2026.

FAQs

Why divide by 730 rather than the real day count?

730 is a fixed statutory divisor. It does not change for leap years, and unlike the maternity calculation nothing is subtracted from it for sick days or holidays.

Who pays for the first three days?

For your own illness or injury, the employer, out of its own money; the state fund pays the remaining days directly. When caring for a sick child or family member the fund pays from day one.

How is leave to care for a sick child paid?

For a child under 8, at 100 percent of average earnings whatever your service. From 8, home treatment is paid by service for the first 10 days and at 50 percent after that; hospital care is paid by service.

What if I did not work the whole two years?

Missing months simply contribute zero while the divisor stays at 730. If that drops the benefit below the minimum-wage floor, the floor applies — the calculator does this automatically.

Is sick pay taxed?

Yes, unlike maternity benefit. Tax is withheld from both the employer's part and the fund's part, so the net is roughly 13 percent below the gross.

How much does length of service change the payment?

By 20 percentage points of average earnings at each step: the benefit rises by a third from 60 to 80 percent and by a quarter from 80 to 100. On average daily earnings of 2,506.85 ₽, ten days of sickness pay 15,041 ₽ under five years of service, 20,055 ₽ between five and eight, and 25,069 ₽ from eight years onward.

Do these sick pay rules apply outside Russia?

No. The two-year averaging, the service thresholds and the role of the social insurance fund are Russian. Statutory sick pay elsewhere is commonly a flat weekly amount or a percentage of current salary, with no reference to earnings two years ago.

Worked example

Ten days off with nine years of service

Input: 850,000 and 980,000 ₽ over two years, 9 years of service, 10 days

Output: Daily average 2,506.85 ₽, gross 25,068.50 ₽, net 21,809.50 ₽

Note: Nine years earns the full 100 percent. At four years of service the same illness would pay 15,041.10 ₽ — ten thousand less.

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