Agency holiday pay: is your 12.07% there?
For leave years starting on or after 1 April 2024, an employer can pay irregular-hours and part-year workers their holiday pay with every payslip instead of when they take leave. That's rolled-up holiday pay: 12.07% of your total pay for the pay period, shown as its own line and paid with your wages.
What to look for on your payslip
Its own line
Rolled-up holiday pay should be clearly marked as a separate item on every payslip. If you can't find a holiday line, ask how your holiday is being paid.
12.07% of all your pay
It's worked out on your total pay in the pay period: on £800 for the week, that's £96.56. It comes on top of your wages, and your wages on their own must be at least the minimum wage.
In your key information document
If you're an agency worker, your employer must put rolled-up holiday pay in your key information document. Check the two match.
Questions people ask
Where does 12.07% come from?
Statutory holiday is 5.6 weeks a year. 5.6 weeks divided by the 46.4 weeks left to work in the year is 12.07%.
Who can be paid this way?
Irregular-hours workers and part-year workers only. Anyone else is paid their holiday when they take it.
Why is my week off unpaid?
With rolled-up holiday pay the leave is paid as you work, so it has already been paid by the time you take it. If your employer uses the 52-week method instead, you're paid when you take the leave. Ask which one yours uses.
Does TradeCard check it?
Yes. The free payslip check looks for a holiday pay line and, where it's rolled up, checks it against 12.07% of your pay for the period.
Where these facts come from
- DBT: Holiday pay and entitlement reforms from 1 January 2024
- The Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023
- HMRC: Working through an umbrella company
This is a check against published rules, not legal or tax advice. If you're in a dispute, ACAS, a union or an adviser can act for you.