How to Calculate Unpaid Days From Salary

by Matt McGew, Demand Media

A salaried employee receives a set amount of compensation annually. This typically allows for time off including vacation days, sick days, personal days and holidays. However, in some cases salaried employees may want to take additional unpaid days off. In this case, the employer will need to deduct the employee's daily wage from his salary.

Step 1

Determine the employee's annual salary. For example, assume the employee earns $30,000 annually.

Step 2

Determine the employee's weekly salary. In the example, $30,000/52 = $576.92 per week.

Step 3

Determine the employee's daily salary. Continuing the example, $576.92/5 = $115.38 per day. Check your work at a conversion site such as the Hourly Wages Salary to Hourly Wage Conversion Calculator. Enter 30,000 in the salary box and be sure the drop-down says "year." Read the daily salary of $115.39, which is the same as you calculated, except for a 1 cent difference due to rounding.

Step 4

Multiply the employee's daily salary by the number of unpaid days the employee took during the pay period. For example, assume the employee in the example took three unpaid days. The amount do deduct is $115.38 x 3 = $346.14.

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