{
  "id": "fmla-leave",
  "version": "bc5a333bc49d",
  "status": "published",
  "name": "FMLA Leave Calculator",
  "question": "How much FMLA leave do I have left?",
  "summary": "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.",
  "category": "finance",
  "subcategory": "tax-and-pay",
  "url": "https://www.acalculator.org/finance/fmla-leave-calculator",
  "markdown": "https://www.acalculator.org/finance/fmla-leave-calculator.md",
  "kind": "function",
  "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.",
  "assumptions": [
    "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."
  ],
  "inputs": {
    "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "hours": {
        "title": "Hours in your normal workweek",
        "description": "The hours you would normally work in a week, including required overtime. If they vary, use the weekly average over the 12 months before the leave.",
        "type": "number",
        "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
        "maximum": 168
      },
      "reason": {
        "title": "Leave for",
        "description": "Most FMLA reasons give 12 workweeks; caring for a servicemember with a serious injury or illness gives 26.",
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "standard",
          "caregiver"
        ]
      },
      "method": {
        "title": "Your employer’s 12-month period",
        "description": "The method your employer uses to count the 12 months, from its FMLA policy.",
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "rolling",
          "calendar",
          "fixed",
          "forward"
        ]
      },
      "on": {
        "title": "Date the leave starts",
        "description": "The first day of the leave you are asking about.",
        "type": "string",
        "format": "date"
      },
      "start": {
        "title": "First day of the 12-month period",
        "description": "For a fixed leave year, its first day. Otherwise the first day of your first FMLA leave in the period (your first military caregiver leave for 26 weeks).",
        "type": "string",
        "format": "date"
      },
      "used": {
        "title": "FMLA hours already used",
        "description": "FMLA leave you have taken in the 12-month period, in hours. For the rolling method, the hours in the 12 months up to the leave date.",
        "type": "number",
        "minimum": 0,
        "maximum": 5000
      }
    }
  },
  "outputs": {
    "left": {
      "label": "FMLA hours left",
      "description": "Hours of FMLA leave in the period − hours already used.",
      "format": "number"
    },
    "weeksLeft": {
      "label": "Workweeks left",
      "description": "Hours left ÷ hours in your normal workweek.",
      "format": "number"
    },
    "total": {
      "label": "FMLA hours in the 12-month period",
      "description": "12 (or 26) workweeks × hours in your normal workweek.",
      "format": "number"
    },
    "from": {
      "label": "The 12-month period starts",
      "description": "The first day of the 12 months counted.",
      "format": "date"
    },
    "to": {
      "label": "The 12-month period ends",
      "description": "The last day of the 12 months counted.",
      "format": "date"
    }
  },
  "defaultAnswer": {
    "inputs": {
      "hours": 40,
      "reason": "standard",
      "method": "rolling",
      "on": "2026-10-19",
      "start": "2026-07-19",
      "used": 80
    },
    "outputs": {
      "left": 400,
      "weeksLeft": 10,
      "total": 480,
      "from": "2025-10-20",
      "to": "2026-10-19"
    },
    "text": "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."
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "given": {
        "hours": 40,
        "reason": "standard",
        "method": "rolling",
        "on": "2026-11-01",
        "used": 80
      },
      "expect": {
        "total": 480,
        "left": 400,
        "weeksLeft": 10,
        "from": "2025-11-02",
        "to": "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; hand calculation in content.mdx: 12 × 40 = 480; 480 − 80 = 400 hours, 10 workweeks"
    },
    {
      "given": {
        "hours": 40,
        "reason": "standard",
        "method": "rolling",
        "on": "2026-11-01",
        "used": 320
      },
      "expect": {
        "left": 160,
        "weeksLeft": 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”)"
    },
    {
      "given": {
        "hours": 30,
        "reason": "standard",
        "method": "calendar",
        "on": "2026-06-15",
        "used": 10
      },
      "expect": {
        "total": 360,
        "left": 350,
        "weeksLeft": 11.666666666666666,
        "from": "2026-01-01",
        "to": "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; hand calculation in content.mdx: 12 × 30 = 360; 350 ÷ 30 = 11.67"
    },
    {
      "given": {
        "hours": 48,
        "reason": "standard",
        "method": "forward",
        "start": "2025-11-06",
        "used": 8
      },
      "expect": {
        "total": 576,
        "left": 568,
        "weeksLeft": 11.833333333333334,
        "from": "2025-11-06",
        "to": "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"
    },
    {
      "given": {
        "hours": 40,
        "reason": "caregiver",
        "start": "2024-02-29",
        "used": 200
      },
      "expect": {
        "total": 1040,
        "left": 840,
        "weeksLeft": 21,
        "from": "2024-02-29",
        "to": "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; hand calculation in content.mdx: 26 × 40 = 1,040"
    },
    {
      "given": {
        "hours": 37.5,
        "reason": "standard",
        "method": "fixed",
        "start": "2025-10-01",
        "used": 22.5
      },
      "expect": {
        "total": 450,
        "left": 427.5,
        "weeksLeft": 11.4,
        "from": "2025-10-01",
        "to": "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; hand calculation in content.mdx: 12 × 37.5 = 450; 450 − 22.5 = 427.5; 427.5 ÷ 37.5 = 11.4"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "29 CFR 825.200 Amount of leave: 12 workweeks of leave during any 12-month period; an employer may choose the calendar year, any fixed 12-month leave year, the 12-month period measured forward from the date any employee’s first FMLA leave begins, or a rolling 12-month period measured backward from the date an employee uses any FMLA leave; under the rolling method an employee who has taken eight weeks in the past 12 months may take four more; 26 workweeks of military caregiver leave in a single 12-month period measured forward from the first day of that leave. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-825.200 (retrieved 2026-10-19)",
    "29 CFR 825.205 Increments of FMLA leave for intermittent or reduced schedule leave: the actual workweek is the basis of the entitlement (8 hours off a 40-hour week is one-fifth of a week; 10 hours off a 30-hour week is one-third); a varying schedule uses the weekly average of the hours scheduled over the 12 months before the leave; required overtime hours count. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-825.205 (retrieved 2026-10-19)",
    "29 CFR 825.110 Eligible employee: employed by the employer for at least 12 months, at least 1,250 hours of service in the 12 months before the leave, at a worksite with 50 or more employees within 75 miles. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-825.110 (retrieved 2026-10-19)",
    "U.S. Department of Labor, Fact Sheet #28H: 12-month period under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), January 2024: a forward period from a first leave on November 6 runs through November 5 of the next year; a rolling period for leave starting November 1 looks back from November 2 of the year before through November 1. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/28h-fmla-12-month-period (retrieved 2026-10-19)"
  ],
  "related": [
    "pto",
    "overtime",
    "salary-to-hourly",
    "back-pay"
  ],
  "changelog": []
}