How the Omani gratuity is worked out
The gratuity is the daily wage times the days of wage owed. Article 61 of the Labour Law pays, when the job ends, "not less than the basic wage for each year" of service, and pays part years in proportion to the time worked. This page uses one basic wage for each year, which is 30 days of the daily wage. The daily wage is the monthly basic wage divided by 30; the law states no divisor, so this is the usual convention and the page says so.
Service runs from the first day up to the last day, and the last day is not counted. Whole months are counted from the anniversary of the first day, and the days left over after the last whole month count as that many 365ths of a year. The law gives no divisor, so this is a stated reading, not a quoted rule: an employer who uses another divisor can arrive at a figure a little different. Amounts are kept exact and rounded once at the end, half up, to the baisa.
What this page cannot settle
Service before the law. The Labour Law of 2023 came into force on 31 July 2023. Article 61 counts earlier service and takes the last basic wage as the base, and this page does the same for the whole period. The Ministry of Labour is reported, in a press account we could not tie to a notice on the ministry's own site, to apply the old formula of Royal Decree 35/2003 (15 days a year for the first 3 years, then 30) to service before 1 August 2023. The Labour Law does not print a split-period formula in Article 61, so this page does not use one. If you started before August 2023, the ministry's figure may differ from this page's; ask the ministry.
Unpaid leave. Articles 80 and 83 of the Labour Law say that special unpaid leave granted at the worker's request, and unpaid child-care leave, count within the period of service but not in the Article 61 calculation. This page does not take such days off, so there is no box for them, and the gratuity it shows can be higher than the law gives if you had that kind of leave.
From 19 July 2027. Royal Decree 60/2025 postponed to that day the savings system for non-Omani workers that replaces Article 61. The date is as the rules file records it; the text of the decree on the official portal does not itself print it, so check it. The calculator stops before that day and gives no figure for a last day on or after it.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Omani gratuity worked out on my basic wage or my full salary?
On the basic wage. Article 61 names the basic wage, so use the basic wage line of your contract, not the whole package, and do not add allowances. On a basic wage of OMR 400.000 inside a package of OMR 550.000, a worker who started on 1 August 2023 and left on 1 February 2026 gets OMR 1,000.000; entering the whole package by mistake would show OMR 1,375.000.
Does resigning or being dismissed change the gratuity?
Not in the rules this page reads. Our reading is that Article 61 says nothing about the reason the job ended and makes no reduction for it, so resignation and dismissal give the same figure: OMR 1,000.000 for a basic wage of OMR 400.000 from 1 August 2023 to 1 February 2026. This is our summary of the article, not a quotation.
Do I get a gratuity if I worked less than one year?
Yes. Article 61 sets no minimum and pays fractions of a year in proportion. A basic wage of OMR 350.000 and 6 months of service gives OMR 175.000; 1 year on a basic wage of OMR 500.000 gives OMR 500.000.
Is there a cap on the gratuity?
Not in the rules this page reads. Article 61 states no limit, so the calculator applies none, whatever the length of service.
I started before 2023. Is my figure right?
It follows the law as the rules file reads it, but the ministry may count the earlier years differently. See "What this page cannot settle" above: this page applies Article 61 to the whole period on your last basic wage, and a reported ministry practice applies the older formula to service before 1 August 2023.
I am an Omani citizen. Does this apply to me?
No. The rules this page reads cover workers who are not under the Social Protection Law (Royal Decree 52/2023); Omani private-sector workers are under that law's social insurance instead of Article 61. See the list of who is not covered below.
Why is my employer's figure a few baisa different?
The law does not fix the daily-wage divisor or how a part year is counted. This calculator divides the monthly basic wage by 30, counts whole months exactly and the leftover days over 365, and rounds once at the end, half up, to the baisa. An employer who counts a month as the actual days in it, or a year as 360 or 365.25 days, can differ by a small amount. The law also says "not less than", so an employer may pay more.
Is what I type sent anywhere?
No. The calculation runs in your browser. The link button copies an address that holds your numbers after the # sign, which a browser never sends to a server, and nothing is stored on this device.
The rules this calculator applies
These lines come from the rules file the calculator itself reads, so the page and the answer cannot disagree. A row marked "Law (translation)" is the article's wording as the rules file carries it in English; a row marked "Our summary" is our own wording, not a quotation. Checked on 12 October 2026.
| Where | What it says | Kind | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Article 61 | not less than the basic wage for each year of his service | Law (translation) | OM-B1 |
| Article 61 | The worker is entitled to the gratuity for the fractions of the year proportional to the period he spends in service | Law (translation) | OM-PART |
| Article 61 | the employer shall upon the end of the employment relationship with workers who do not benefit from the provisions of the Social Protection Law pay the worker a gratuity for the period of his service, not less than the basic wage for each year of his service | Law (translation) | OM-R1 |
Who this calculator does not cover
It gives no figure for these cases. Use the rules that apply to you.
- Omani workers in the private sector: covered by social insurance under the Social Protection Law (Royal Decree 52/2023), not by Article 61.
- Workers who benefit from the Social Protection Law's savings system for expatriates once it takes effect (postponed to 19 July 2027 by Royal Decree 60/2025).
- Domestic workers and those considered as such (own regulations).
- Workers governed by special laws or systems under Article 2 of the Labour Law.
Sources
- Oman decrees portal, Royal Decree 53/2023 Issuing the Labour Law (in force from 31 July 2023; address checked 12 October 2026): Articles 17, 61, 80 and 83.
- Oman legal information system (Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs), the Arabic text of the same decree: the Arabic wording of Article 61 was compared word for word on 12 October 2026. The English wording in the rules table is the rules file's translation of that Arabic text, not an official translation.
- Oman decrees portal, Royal Decree 52/2023 issuing the Social Protection Law, which covers the workers named in the list above.
The calculations on this page are done by this page's own code, which is checked against an independent implementation in the site's test suite. Where the law is silent (the daily-wage divisor, part years, unpaid leave) the page states the reading it uses.