# Annual leave: Statutory Leave Entitlements

> The Statutory Leave Entitlements carries 11 published figures read from 17 sources' own pages, from 2 to 52 week, read 26 September 2026.

WallChartBook · https://wallchartbook.com/datasets/statutory-leave-entitlements/ · computed 2026-10-05

**Range of the published figures:** 2 to 52 week (range 2 to 52 week; 11 sources with a figure; 17 of 37 sources read publish one).

17 of the 37 named sources read in full publish a figure; 20 publish none, read 26 September 2026.

## By leave type

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| leave type annual leave | 4 week | 2 to 5.6 week | 3 |
| leave type carers leave | 2 day | 2 to 2 day | 1 |
| leave type sick leave | 3 day | 3 to 3 day | 1 |
| leave type sick leave | 27 week | 27 to 27 week | 1 |
| leave type compassionate leave | 2 day | 2 to 2 day | 1 |
| leave type long service leave | 8.67 week | 8.67 to 8.67 week | 1 |
| leave type maternity leave | 34.5 week | 17 to 52 week | 2 |
| leave type personal and family responsibility leave | 5 day | 5 to 5 day | 1 |
| leave type bereavement leave | 3 day | 3 to 3 day | 1 |
| leave type bereavement leave | 2 week | 2 to 2 week | 1 |
| leave type family and medical leave | 72 day | 72 to 72 day | 1 |
| leave type paid family leave | 12 week | 12 to 12 week | 1 |
| leave type paternity leave | 2 week | 2 to 2 week | 1 |
| leave type shared parental leave | 50 week | 50 to 50 week | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [US DOL Fact Sheet #28I: calculation of FMLA leave](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/28i-fmla-leave-calculation) | 72 day | family and medical leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [GOV.UK Statutory Maternity Leave](https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave/leave) | 52 week | maternity leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [GOV.UK Shared Parental Leave](https://www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-pay) | 50 week | shared parental leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [Alberta job-protected leaves](https://www.alberta.ca/job-protected-leaves) | 27 week | sick leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [Ontario ESA guide: pregnancy and parental leave](https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/pregnancy-and-parental-leave) | 17 week | maternity leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [Delaware Department of Labor paid leave](https://labor.delaware.gov/delaware-paid-leave/) | 12 week | paid family leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [Business Queensland long service leave entitlements](https://www.business.qld.gov.au/running-business/employing/legal-obligations/long-service-leave/entitlements) | 8.67 week | long service leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [GOV.UK holiday entitlement](https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights) | 5.6 week | annual leave | 2026-09-12 |
| [Alberta personal and family responsibility leave](https://www.alberta.ca/personal-family-responsibility-leave) | 5 day | personal and family responsibility leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [Fair Work Ombudsman annual leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/annual-leave) | 4 week | annual leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [Ontario ESA guide: sick leave](https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/sick-leave) | 3 day | sick leave | 2026-09-25 |
| [Alberta bereavement leave](https://www.alberta.ca/bereavement-leave) | 3 day | bereavement leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [Fair Work Ombudsman sick and carer's leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/sick-and-carers-leave) | 2 day | carers leave | 2026-09-25 |
| [BC Employment Standards annual vacation](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/employment-standards/time-off/vacation) | 2 week | annual leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [Fair Work Ombudsman compassionate and bereavement leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/compassionate-and-bereavement-leave) | 2 day | compassionate leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [Acas time off for bereavement](https://www.acas.org.uk/time-off-for-bereavement) | 2 week | bereavement leave | 2026-09-26 |
| [GOV.UK Statutory Paternity Leave](https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/leave) | 2 week | paternity leave | 2026-09-26 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (17)

- [US DOL Fact Sheet #28I: calculation of FMLA leave](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/28i-fmla-leave-calculation), read 2026-09-26: "An eligible airline flight crew employee has the right to use up to 72 days of FMLA leave in a 12-month period, and up to 156 days of military caregiver leave during a single 12-month period."
- [GOV.UK Statutory Maternity Leave](https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave/leave), read 2026-09-26: "Statutory Maternity Leave is 52 weeks."
- [GOV.UK Shared Parental Leave](https://www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-pay), read 2026-09-26: "You can share up to 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of pay between you."
- [Alberta job-protected leaves](https://www.alberta.ca/job-protected-leaves), read 2026-09-26: "Eligible employees can take up to 27 weeks of leave due to illness, injury or quarantine."
- [Ontario ESA guide: pregnancy and parental leave](https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/pregnancy-and-parental-leave), read 2026-09-26: "Pregnant employees have the right to take pregnancy leave of up to 17 weeks of unpaid time off work."
- [Delaware Department of Labor paid leave](https://labor.delaware.gov/delaware-paid-leave/), read 2026-09-26: "Employees are limited to a maximum of 12 weeks of combined leave per year."
- [Business Queensland long service leave entitlements](https://www.business.qld.gov.au/running-business/employing/legal-obligations/long-service-leave/entitlements), read 2026-09-26: "Employees are entitled to take 8.6667 weeks of paid long service leave after a period of 10 years' continuous service."
- [GOV.UK holiday entitlement](https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights), read 2026-09-12: "Almost all people classed as workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday a year (known as statutory leave entitlement or annual leave)."
- [Alberta personal and family responsibility leave](https://www.alberta.ca/personal-family-responsibility-leave), read 2026-09-26: "An employee can take up to 5 days of personal and family responsibility leave in each calendar year."
- [Fair Work Ombudsman annual leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/annual-leave), read 2026-09-26: "Full-time and part-time employees get 4 weeks of annual leave, based on their ordinary hours of work."
- [Ontario ESA guide: sick leave](https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/sick-leave), read 2026-09-25: "This means that the employee is entitled to 3 days of job protected sick leave per calendar year."
- [Alberta bereavement leave](https://www.alberta.ca/bereavement-leave), read 2026-09-26: "Employees are entitled to 3 days of bereavement leave per calendar year, not per incident of bereavement."
- [Fair Work Ombudsman sick and carer's leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/sick-and-carers-leave), read 2026-09-25: "Casual employees are entitled to 2 days of unpaid carer’s leave per occasion."
- [BC Employment Standards annual vacation](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/employment-standards/time-off/vacation), read 2026-09-26: "After 12 months, they get 2 weeks of annual vacation."
- [Fair Work Ombudsman compassionate and bereavement leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/compassionate-and-bereavement-leave), read 2026-09-26: "Employees are entitled to 2 days compassionate leave each time they meet the criteria."
- [Acas time off for bereavement](https://www.acas.org.uk/time-off-for-bereavement), read 2026-09-26: "They can also get 2 weeks of parental bereavement leave or pay."
- [GOV.UK Statutory Paternity Leave](https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/leave), read 2026-09-26: "You can take up to 2 weeks’ leave."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [GOV.UK calculating leave entitlement](https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/calculate-leave-entitlement), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [GOV.UK booking time off (notice to take leave)](https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/booking-time-off), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [GOV.UK holiday entitlement by contract type](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/calculating-holiday-entitlement-for-workers/how-to-calculate-holiday-entitlement-for-workers-on-different-types-of-contract), read 2026-09-26: every candidate on the page was refused
- [GOV.UK unpaid parental leave](https://www.gov.uk/parental-leave), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK Parental Bereavement Leave](https://www.gov.uk/parental-bereavement-pay-leave), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [GOV.UK time off for dependants](https://www.gov.uk/time-off-for-dependants), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK taking sick leave](https://www.gov.uk/taking-sick-leave), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Acas holiday entitlement](https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Acas asking for and taking holiday](https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement/asking-for-and-taking-holiday), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Acas time off for dependants](https://www.acas.org.uk/time-off-for-dependants), read 2026-09-26: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Acas garden leave (notice not worked)](https://www.acas.org.uk/notice-periods/when-an-employee-is-not-required-to-work-their-notice), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Fair Work Ombudsman long service leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/long-service-leave), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Fair Work Ombudsman parental leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/parental-leave), read 2026-09-26: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Fair Work Ombudsman National Employment Standards](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/national-employment-standards), read 2026-09-25: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Business Victoria long service leave](https://business.vic.gov.au/business-information/staff-and-hr/long-service-leave-victoria/calculate-long-service-leave), read 2026-09-26: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Ontario ESA guide: vacation](https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/vacation), read 2026-09-19: every candidate on the page was refused
- [BC Employment Standards leaves of absence](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/employment-standards/time-off/leaves-of-absence), read 2026-09-26: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Canada federal labour standards](https://www.canada.ca/en/services/jobs/workplace/federal-labour-standards.html), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US DOL Family and Medical Leave Act](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US DOL Fact Sheet #28: FMLA](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/28-fmla), read 2026-09-18: every candidate on the page was refused

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 17 of the 37 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 20 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in week (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 201 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per jurisdiction per leave type per term (who qualifies, qualifying service, duration, paid or unpaid, notice, evidence the employer may ask for), each quoted verbatim from that jurisdiction's own authority with its effective date; what NOBODY publishes is the cross-jurisdiction comparison built from it - the spread of statutory annual leave from the US federal floor of zero to the UK's 5.6 weeks, how many of the twelve jurisdictions make bereavement leave paid, which make sick leave paid and for how long, and the changed-since diff when a jurisdiction amends its standard

## Sources

- [GOV.UK holiday entitlement](https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK calculating leave entitlement](https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/calculate-leave-entitlement) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK booking time off (notice to take leave)](https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/booking-time-off) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK holiday entitlement by contract type](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/calculating-holiday-entitlement-for-workers/how-to-calculate-holiday-entitlement-for-workers-on-different-types-of-contract) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK Statutory Maternity Leave](https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave/leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK Statutory Paternity Leave](https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK Shared Parental Leave](https://www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-pay) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK unpaid parental leave](https://www.gov.uk/parental-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK Parental Bereavement Leave](https://www.gov.uk/parental-bereavement-pay-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK time off for dependants](https://www.gov.uk/time-off-for-dependants) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK taking sick leave](https://www.gov.uk/taking-sick-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Acas holiday entitlement](https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Acas asking for and taking holiday](https://www.acas.org.uk/checking-holiday-entitlement/asking-for-and-taking-holiday) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Acas time off for bereavement](https://www.acas.org.uk/time-off-for-bereavement) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Acas time off for dependants](https://www.acas.org.uk/time-off-for-dependants) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Acas garden leave (notice not worked)](https://www.acas.org.uk/notice-periods/when-an-employee-is-not-required-to-work-their-notice) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Fair Work Ombudsman annual leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/annual-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Fair Work Ombudsman sick and carer's leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/sick-and-carers-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Fair Work Ombudsman compassionate and bereavement leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/compassionate-and-bereavement-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Fair Work Ombudsman long service leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/long-service-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Fair Work Ombudsman parental leave](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/parental-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Fair Work Ombudsman National Employment Standards](https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/national-employment-standards) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Business Queensland long service leave entitlements](https://www.business.qld.gov.au/running-business/employing/legal-obligations/long-service-leave/entitlements) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Business Victoria long service leave](https://business.vic.gov.au/business-information/staff-and-hr/long-service-leave-victoria/calculate-long-service-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ontario ESA guide: vacation](https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/vacation) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ontario ESA guide: pregnancy and parental leave](https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/pregnancy-and-parental-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ontario ESA guide: sick leave](https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/sick-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BC Employment Standards annual vacation](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/employment-standards/time-off/vacation) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BC Employment Standards leaves of absence](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/employment-standards/time-off/leaves-of-absence) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Alberta job-protected leaves](https://www.alberta.ca/job-protected-leaves) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Alberta personal and family responsibility leave](https://www.alberta.ca/personal-family-responsibility-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Alberta bereavement leave](https://www.alberta.ca/bereavement-leave) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Canada federal labour standards](https://www.canada.ca/en/services/jobs/workplace/federal-labour-standards.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US DOL Family and Medical Leave Act](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US DOL Fact Sheet #28: FMLA](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/28-fmla) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US DOL Fact Sheet #28I: calculation of FMLA leave](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/28i-fmla-leave-calculation) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Delaware Department of Labor paid leave](https://labor.delaware.gov/delaware-paid-leave/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [gov.uk](https://www.gov.uk/browse/employing-people/time-off) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The Statutory Leave Entitlements carries 11 published figures read from 17 sources' own pages, from 2 to 52 week, read 26 September 2026.
- 17 of the 37 named sources read in full publish a figure; 20 publish none, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type annual leave: median 4 week across 3 sources, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type carers leave: median 2 day across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type sick leave: median 3 day across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type sick leave: median 27 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type compassionate leave: median 2 day across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type long service leave: median 8.67 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type maternity leave: median 34.50 week across 2 sources, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type personal and family responsibility leave: median 5 day across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type bereavement leave: median 3 day across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type bereavement leave: median 2 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type family and medical leave: median 72 day across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type paid family leave: median 12 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type paternity leave: median 2 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
- Statutory Leave Entitlements, leave type shared parental leave: median 50 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.

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