Enter what you earned between December 1 and November 30 and see what your aguinaldo comes to. It is always divided by twelve, never by the months you worked.
Period from December 1, 2025 to November 30, 2026. Figures in effect since January 1, 2026.
Fill out the form and press "Calculate" to see how your aguinaldo is worked out.
You add up everything you earned gross between December 1 of the previous year and November 30 of this year — ordinary salary, overtime, commissions and any other salary payment — and divide that sum by 12 (Law 2412, art. 2). The divisor is always 12, never the number of months you worked. And note: the period is not the calendar year; that is how the MTSS describes it in its official aguinaldo material.
Within the first 20 days of December. It is not a company custom: it is a deadline set by article 4 of Law 2412. If you leave the job before that date, the prorated aguinaldo is paid inside your final settlement, not in December.
The statutory aguinaldo — one twelfth of what you earned over the period — is exempt from CCSS social security, with no cap (Law 2412, art. 7), and exempt from income tax (Law 2412, art. 9, and Law 7092, art. 35(b)). The only thing that can be deducted from it is child support. A voluntary aguinaldo above that twelfth may be treated differently, and this calculator does not cover it.
You add up what you earned in the months you did work inside the period and still divide by 12. Dividing by the months worked is the most common mistake and can inflate the amount by half. Entitlement requires at least one continuous month with the same employer (Law 2412, art. 3).
No. What you receive during sick leave is a subsidy, not salary, so that period and its amount are excluded from the base; the same goes for unpaid leave. Maternity leave does count toward the base. The basis for this criterion is the MTSS official aguinaldo leaflet.
Yes. The prorated aguinaldo is money you already earned, so as a general rule it is paid whatever the reason for leaving: dismissal with or without just cause, or resignation. What changes with the reason is severance and notice pay, not the aguinaldo, and the one-continuous-month minimum still applies.