Enter your date of joining and an as-on date to get completed service broken into years, months and days, plus your next work anniversary and a flag for the common gratuity-eligibility threshold.
The calculator takes the plain calendar difference between the two dates and expresses it as years, months and days. If you had a long spell of unpaid leave or another non-qualifying gap, enter it in months and the tool nets it off to give qualifying service. This is a general tenure figure. Statutory entitlements have their own definitions: gratuity turns on continuous service, broadly four years and 240 days, with specific rules about what breaks continuity and what does not. The gratuity flag here is a prompt to check the detail, not a determination.
If you are on the payroll and serving the notice, yes. If you were paid in lieu and released early, service usually ends on the last working day. Company policy and your contract decide the edge cases.
Under the Payment of Gratuity Act, a part-year over six months is generally rounded up to a full year, and six months or less is dropped. The Gratuity Calculator applies this.
A genuine break, such as a resignation and later rejoining, generally starts a fresh period. Authorised leave, even long leave, usually does not break continuity but may not count as qualifying service. Enter known gaps in the gap field.
For gratuity, a year in which you worked at least 240 days is treated as a full year of continuous service. It is why eligibility can arise a little before a clean five calendar years.
Decimal years divide total days by 365.25 to account for leap years, so it is a smooth number rather than a calendar breakdown. Both describe the same span.
Leave encashment depends on accrued leave balance and last drawn pay, not directly on tenure, though tenure affects how much leave accrued. See the Leave Encashment Calculator.
Related: the Notice Period Calculator and the Retrenchment Compensation Calculator, both of which use length of service.