When you take unpaid leave, or take leave with no balance left, your employer deducts a day’s pay for each LOP day. This calculator works out that deduction and your revised salary for the month, using whichever basis your payroll runs on: a fixed 30 days, the actual calendar days in the month, or actual working days.
The formula is the same everywhere: LOP deduction = (monthly salary / basis days) x number of LOP days. What changes between companies is the basis. Fixed 30 is the most common because it is simple and easy to defend in an audit; a February LOP day then costs the same as a July one. Actual calendar days makes each day slightly cheaper or dearer depending on the month. Working days uses only the days the office was open, so a single LOP day costs more. Whichever your company uses, it should apply it the same way every month and to every employee. LOP also trims your Provident Fund contribution, and ESI if you are covered, because both are a percentage of a now smaller wage.
Most Indian payrolls prorate on gross monthly salary, so that is the default here. Some deduct only against basic plus a few fixed allowances. Check your payslip structure and enter whichever figure your employer prorates on.
None in practice. Loss of Pay and Leave Without Pay both mean an unpaid day, usually because paid leave was exhausted or the absence was unapproved. LOP is the more common term in private-sector payroll.
Yes. Enter 0.5, 1.5, 2.5 and so on. The per-day rate is simply halved for a half day.
PF yes, in that month, because it is 12 percent of a reduced basic. Gratuity is based on your last drawn basic and total years of service, so a stray LOP month does not change it, though a long unpaid spell can affect continuous-service calculations.
Yes, as long as it is set out in the company’s leave and attendance policy and applied consistently. It is a deduction for time not worked, not a penalty.
LOP is a deduction inside a month you were otherwise employed for the whole of. Proration is for a month you joined or left partway through. Use the Prorated Salary Calculator for that case.
To see how the deduction flows through to your net pay, use the Take-Home Salary Calculator, and check remaining leave with the Leave Balance Calculator.