Sick Leave Calculator

Income, first reference year

Income, second reference year

Insured service, years

Days of illness

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Contribution ceiling, first year

Contribution ceiling, second year

Minimum wage

Result

Percentage by service100%
Average daily$2,506.85
Minimum-wage floor$737.75
Daily rate applied$2,506.85
Gross benefit$25,068.49
Income tax$3,258.90
Take-home$21,809.59
First 3 days paid by employer$7,520.55

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.

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 always 730 regardless of leap years.
Contribution ceilings and the minimum wage are editable inputs, so the tool still works for an earlier year.

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?

The employer, out of its own money; the state fund pays the remaining days directly. When caring for a sick child the fund pays from day one.

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.

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 21,810 ₽

Note: Nine years earns the full 100 percent. At four years of service the same illness would pay 15,041 ₽ — ten thousand less.

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