Korea Night and Holiday Pay Calculator for Foreign Workers

What this estimate includes

For a generally covered workplace with at least five regular employees, Korea's general rule adds at least 50% of ordinary wage for night work between 10 PM and 6 AM. Designated holiday work receives a 50% premium for the first eight hours and a 100% premium for hours beyond eight. This calculator keeps night and holiday premiums separate and can add entered night-overlap hours instead of silently double-counting them.

How the calculation works

1. The tool first calculates ordinary pay for the entered hours from an hourly wage, or from monthly ordinary wage divided by the monthly calculation hours entered by the user.
2. For night work, the result adds a 50% ordinary-wage premium to every entered hour between 10 PM and 6 AM.
3. For designated holiday work, the result adds a 50% premium to the first eight hours and a 100% premium to hours beyond eight.
4. When holiday hours include night hours, the optional overlap input adds the 50% night premium to those hours and displays it separately.
5. A workplace with fewer than five regular employees is shown with base pay only because the general Labor Standards Act Article 56 premiums generally do not apply there.

Assumptions

• Night work means actual work between 10 PM and 6 AM, excluding unpaid breaks.
• Holiday work means work on a day designated as a holiday for the worker. A public holiday is not automatically a designated statutory holiday for every workplace.
• The ordinary wage input is the legally relevant ordinary wage, not take-home pay or automatically the entire gross salary.
• The user is checking a generally covered employee arrangement. Special schedules, part-time rules, compensatory leave, and exemptions may change the result.

Example

If ordinary hourly wage is KRW 12,000 and a covered worker enters 10 designated-holiday hours, base pay is KRW 120,000, the first eight hours add KRW 48,000, the next two hours add KRW 24,000, and total estimated pay is KRW 192,000 before any night overlap premium.

Limits and cautions

• The tool does not decide whether a particular day is legally a holiday, whether attendance records count as working time, or whether the workplace is covered.
• Night and holiday premiums can overlap with statutory overtime and other wage rules. This tool shows the selected premiums separately; it does not resolve every overlap scenario.
• A contract or collective agreement can provide more than the statutory minimum, including at a workplace with fewer than five employees.
• Holiday pay, weekly-rest pay, public-holiday rules, fixed overtime agreements, special industries, and minors can require a separate review.
• This is a gross-pay estimate before tax and deductions, not a final wage-debt finding.