Qatar End-of-Service Gratuity Calculator

How it's calculated

Under Article 54 of Qatar Labour Law No. 14 of 2004, a worker who has completed one year or more of service is owed an end-of-service gratuity calculated on the last basic wage, with allowances excluded, of no less than three weeks (21 days) of that wage for every year of service.

The three weeks are a floor, not a ceiling: your contract or your employer's scheme may give more, and where the employer runs a retirement or savings scheme worth less than the gratuity, the employer must pay the difference. Qatar has no bands that raise the rate after five years the way Saudi Arabia and the UAE do: the rate is the same in year two as in year twenty, and fractions of a year after the first are paid pro rata.

Article 54 says nothing about why the relationship ended, so resigning does not reduce the gratuity in Qatar. Many websites claim a one-third / two-thirds ladder; that ladder comes from the Saudi Labor Law and has no basis in Qatari law. The gratuity is forfeited only on dismissal for one of the grounds in Article 61. For the daily wage this calculator divides the basic salary by 30 and multiplies by 21 days, the common practice, although Article 54 itself does not state a divisor.

• Daily wage: monthly basic salary ÷ 30
• Each year of service: 21 days × the daily wage, with no band raising the rate after 5 years
• Minimum one year of continuous service; fractions of a year after that are paid pro rata
• No reduction on resignation; the gratuity is forfeited only on dismissal under Article 61

Worked example

An employee whose last basic salary is 10,000 QAR is terminated by the employer after 7 years of service.

1. Daily wage: 10,000 ÷ 30 = 333.33 QAR
2. One year's gratuity: 21 × 333.33 = 7,000 QAR
3. Total gratuity: 7 × 7,000 = 49,000 QAR

Had the same 7 years ended in resignation, the amount would still be 49,000 QAR with no reduction; 3 years of service would give 21,000 QAR.