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How much FMLA leave do I have left?

Enter the hours in your normal workweek, the FMLA hours you have already used, and how your employer counts the 12-month period. The FMLA leave calculator shows the hours and workweeks you have left and the dates of the 12 months counted.

Your numbers

Leave for
12 workweeks for most reasons; 26 to care for a servicemember with a serious injury or illness.
FMLA hours left
400

You have 400 hours of FMLA leave left, or 10 weeks of your normal schedule, in the 12 months from October 20, 2025 to October 19, 2026.

Workweeks left
10
FMLA hours in the 12-month period
480
The 12-month period starts
October 20, 2025
The 12-month period ends
October 19, 2026

Answer for the example date Monday, October 19, 2026. It changes to today's date when the page loads.

FMLA hours left: 400. You have 400 hours of FMLA leave left, or 10 weeks of your normal schedule, in the 12 months from October 20, 2025 to October 19, 2026.

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How to calculate

Computes the FMLA leave an employee has left in hours and workweeks: 12 workweeks (26 for military caregiver leave) in a 12-month period, by the employer’s method for the period.

Example with the default inputs (Hours in your normal workweek 40, Leave for Most reasons, Your employer’s 12-month period Rolling 12 months back, Date the leave starts October 19, 2026, FMLA hours already used 80) on the example date Monday, October 19, 2026: You have 400 hours of FMLA leave left, or 10 weeks of your normal schedule, in the 12 months from October 20, 2025 to October 19, 2026.

Method: Hours in the period = 12 workweeks (26 for military caregiver leave) × hours in a normal workweek. Hours left = hours in the period − hours used; workweeks left = hours left ÷ hours in a workweek. The period is the calendar year of the leave date; a fixed leave year or 12 months forward from the first leave, from the day given to the day before the same date a year later; or, rolling, the 12 months ending on the leave date.

  • The employee is eligible: 12 months with the employer, 1,250 hours worked in the last 12 months, and 50 employees within 75 miles.
  • Military caregiver leave uses one 12-month period measured forward from its first day, whatever the employer’s method.
  • Hours are exact on the typed decimals and show to 2 decimals.

Machine-readable copies: Markdown, JSON.

Worked examples

Each example is checked against the calculator on every build.

  1. Hours in your normal workweek 40, Leave for Most reasons, Your employer’s 12-month period Rolling 12 months back, Date the leave starts 2026-11-01, FMLA hours already used 80 gives FMLA hours in the 12-month period 480, FMLA hours left 400, Workweeks left 10, The 12-month period starts 2025-11-02, The 12-month period ends 2026-11-01.Source: 29 CFR 825.200 Amount of leave (12 workweeks in a 12-month period; the four methods; 26 workweeks of military caregiver leave in a single 12-month period measured forward). https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-825.200; U.S. Department of Labor, Fact Sheet #28H: 12-month period under the FMLA (forward from November 6 runs to November 5 of the next year; a rolling period for leave starting November 1 looks back to November 2 of the year before). https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/28h-fmla-12-month-period
  2. Hours in your normal workweek 40, Leave for Most reasons, Your employer’s 12-month period Rolling 12 months back, Date the leave starts 2026-11-01, FMLA hours already used 320 gives FMLA hours left 160, Workweeks left 4.Source: 29 CFR 825.200 Amount of leave (12 workweeks in a 12-month period; the four methods; 26 workweeks of military caregiver leave in a single 12-month period measured forward). https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-825.200 (“if an employee has taken eight weeks of leave during the past 12 months, an additional four weeks of leave could be taken”)
  3. Hours in your normal workweek 30, Leave for Most reasons, Your employer’s 12-month period Calendar year, Date the leave starts 2026-06-15, FMLA hours already used 10 gives FMLA hours in the 12-month period 360, FMLA hours left 350, Workweeks left 11.67, The 12-month period starts 2026-01-01, The 12-month period ends 2026-12-31.Source: 29 CFR 825.205(b) Calculation of leave (the actual workweek is the basis: 8 hours off a 40-hour week is one-fifth of a week; 10 hours off a 30-hour week is one-third). https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-825.205: 10 hours of a 30-hour week is one-third of a week
  4. Hours in your normal workweek 48, Leave for Most reasons, Your employer’s 12-month period 12 months from first leave, First day of the 12-month period 2025-11-06, FMLA hours already used 8 gives FMLA hours in the 12-month period 576, FMLA hours left 568, Workweeks left 11.83, The 12-month period starts 2025-11-06, The 12-month period ends 2026-11-05.Source: 29 CFR 825.205(b) Calculation of leave (the actual workweek is the basis: 8 hours off a 40-hour week is one-fifth of a week; 10 hours off a 30-hour week is one-third). https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-825.205 (8 hours of a 48-hour week is one-sixth of a week); U.S. Department of Labor, Fact Sheet #28H: 12-month period under the FMLA (forward from November 6 runs to November 5 of the next year; a rolling period for leave starting November 1 looks back to November 2 of the year before). https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/28h-fmla-12-month-period
  5. Hours in your normal workweek 40, Leave for Military caregiver, First day of the 12-month period 2024-02-29, FMLA hours already used 200 gives FMLA hours in the 12-month period 1,040, FMLA hours left 840, Workweeks left 21, The 12-month period starts 2024-02-29, The 12-month period ends 2025-02-28.Source: 29 CFR 825.200 Amount of leave (12 workweeks in a 12-month period; the four methods; 26 workweeks of military caregiver leave in a single 12-month period measured forward). https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-825.200: 26 workweeks in a single 12-month period measured forward
  6. Hours in your normal workweek 37.5, Leave for Most reasons, Your employer’s 12-month period Fixed leave year, First day of the 12-month period 2025-10-01, FMLA hours already used 22.5 gives FMLA hours in the 12-month period 450, FMLA hours left 427.5, Workweeks left 11.4, The 12-month period starts 2025-10-01, The 12-month period ends 2026-09-30.Source: 29 CFR 825.200 Amount of leave (12 workweeks in a 12-month period; the four methods; 26 workweeks of military caregiver leave in a single 12-month period measured forward). https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-825.200

How it works

  • FMLA hours in the 12-month period = 12 workweeks × hours in your normal workweek (26 workweeks for military caregiver leave)
  • FMLA hours left = hours in the period − FMLA hours already used
  • Workweeks left = hours left ÷ hours in your normal workweek

The 12-month period, by your employer's method:

  • Calendar year: January 1 to December 31 of the year the leave starts.
  • Fixed leave year (such as a fiscal year): from the leave year's first day to the day before the same date a year later.
  • 12 months forward from your first FMLA leave: from the first day of that leave to the day before the same date a year later. When it ends, the next period starts with your next FMLA leave.
  • Rolling 12 months back: the 12 months ending on the day the leave starts, from the day after the same date a year earlier. The hours used are the FMLA hours in that window.
  • Military caregiver leave (26 workweeks) always uses 12 months forward from the first day of that leave, whatever the employer's method.

A period that starts on February 29 ends on February 28 of the next year. A rolling window that ends on February 29 starts on March 1 of the year before.

Rules:

  • Hours in a workweek must be more than 0 and at most 168. Hours used are 0 to 5,000.
  • If the hours used are more than the hours in the period, there is no answer.
  • A result too large to show as a number gives no answer. So does a result that is not 0 but too small to show as a number.
  • Dates run from August 5, 1993, the day the FMLA took effect, to December 31, 2099.
  • The arithmetic is exact on the numbers you type. Hours and workweeks show to 2 decimals, with halves rounded away from 0.

Assumptions

  • You are an eligible employee: at least 12 months with the employer, 1,250 hours worked in the 12 months before the leave, and 50 or more employees within 75 miles.
  • Hours used are FMLA leave only. A holiday inside a full week of FMLA leave still counts as part of that week; a day off while the employer is closed for a week or more does not count.

Worked examples by hand

Two weeks used, rolling method. 12 × 40 = 480 hours. 480 − 80 = 400 hours left, or 400 ÷ 40 = 10 workweeks. For leave starting November 1, 2026, the 12 months run from November 2, 2025 to November 1, 2026.

Eight weeks used in the past 12 months. 8 × 40 = 320 hours used: 480 − 320 = 160 hours, the 4 workweeks the regulation's example allows.

A 30-hour week, calendar year. 12 × 30 = 360 hours. 360 − 10 = 350 hours; 350 ÷ 30 = 11.67 workweeks. The period is January 1 to December 31, 2026.

A 48-hour week with required overtime, measured forward. 12 × 48 = 576 hours; 576 − 8 = 568 hours, 11.83 workweeks. From a first leave on November 6, 2025, the period runs to November 5, 2026.

Military caregiver leave. 26 × 40 = 1,040 hours. 1,040 − 200 = 840 hours, 21 workweeks. From February 29, 2024 the period runs to February 28, 2025.

A fiscal leave year and a 37.5-hour week. 12 × 37.5 = 450 hours; 450 − 22.5 = 427.5 hours; 427.5 ÷ 37.5 = 11.4 workweeks. The leave year runs from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026.

Other questions people ask

How much FMLA leave do I get?

An eligible employee may take up to 12 workweeks of FMLA leave in a 12-month period, or up to 26 workweeks in a single 12-month period to care for a covered servicemember with a serious injury or illness. In hours, it is 12 times the hours you normally work in a week: 480 hours for a 40-hour week.

How do I work out FMLA leave in hours?

Multiply 12 by the hours in your normal workweek and subtract the FMLA hours already used. The workweek is the measure: 8 hours off from a 40-hour week is one-fifth of a week, and 10 hours off from a 30-hour week is one-third. With 80 hours used out of 480, you have 400 hours, or 10 weeks, left.

What are the four ways to count the 12-month period?

Your employer picks one and uses it for everyone: the calendar year; a fixed leave year such as a fiscal year or a year from your hiring anniversary; 12 months forward from the day your first FMLA leave begins; or a rolling 12 months measured back from each day you use FMLA leave.

How does the rolling 12-month method work?

Each time you take FMLA leave, look back 12 months from that day: what you have left is 12 weeks minus the FMLA leave used in that time. Leave starting November 1 looks back to November 2 of the year before. Leave used more than 12 months ago comes back to you.

What if my hours change from week to week?

Use the weekly average of the hours you were scheduled to work over the 12 months before the leave, counting hours of any kind of leave. Required overtime counts: if you must normally work 48 hours, use 48.

Who is eligible for FMLA leave?

An employee who has worked for the employer for at least 12 months, worked at least 1,250 hours in the 12 months before the leave, and works where the employer has 50 or more employees within 75 miles. This calculator assumes you are eligible; it is not legal advice, so check your employer’s FMLA policy.