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The salary deducted for loss-of-pay days, using the divisor your payroll policy sets: calendar days, working days, or a fixed 30 or 26.
Loss of pay applies when an employee is absent without leave to cover it. Payroll deducts a day's salary for each LOP day, and the day's salary is the monthly figure divided by a chosen number of days.
Employers use different divisors, and each produces a different deduction for the same absence. This LOP calculator shows the result on the basis you choose, so you can match what your payroll actually does.
Enter your figures, then press Calculate
Your 5 inputs become a full breakdown, with every step of the working shown beneath the headline figures.
A day's salary multiplied by the days without pay. What a day is worth depends on the divisor, and that is where policies differ.
LOP deduction = (Monthly salary ÷ Divisor) × LOP days, where the divisor is calendar days, working days, 30 or 26 as your policy sets
Calendar days makes a day worth less in a 31-day month than in February. Working days gives a higher day rate and treats weekly offs as paid regardless. Fixed 30 or 26 keeps the rate constant across months.
Monthly salary divided by the chosen divisor.
The deduction cannot exceed the month's salary, so LOP days are limited to the divisor.
What this does not include
Asked often enough about this calculation to be worth answering beside it.
None is mandated for all employers. Calendar days, working days and a fixed 30 or 26 are all in use. The Payment of Wages Act requires the deduction to be proportionate to the absence, so pick a basis, write it into policy and apply it consistently.
On a calendar-day or working-day basis the divisor changes with the month, so the same salary gives a different day rate. A fixed 30 or 26 divisor removes that variation.
Only if your policy has a sandwich rule that treats intervening weekly offs or holidays as LOP. Otherwise they remain paid days.
Yes, indirectly. PF is calculated on basic and DA actually paid and ESI on wages actually paid, so a lower paid amount after LOP lowers both contributions for that month.
A calculator applies a rule to figures you type in. A payroll run applies it to your actual employee record, your locations and your verified declarations, which is where Professional Tax, LWF and TDS also resolve.
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