Please help me work our my holiday entitlement!

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I work for a very small business. I love my job, and my boss is a lovely person who is kind and generous, but doesn’t have much interest in the administration side of the business. He has employed me PAYE and I am his only employee.
I work 24.25 hours a week, and I take pretty much all school holidays off (13 weeks), but I work all Saturdays throughout the year.
I know that I am entitled to some holiday pay, but I am finding it tricky to work out how much.
I worked out my average weekly hours by adding up all of the hours I do in a year and dividing it by 52, then put that through the .gov calculator. It came up with more holiday than I imagined I am entitled to.
My boss will just agree with whatever I say is correct, but I want to make sure it is correct beforehand.
It came back with 9.2 hours a month. Does that sound about right do you think?

You are entitled to 5.6 weeks per year. If you are paid for 24.25 hours per week, this equates to 135.8 hours leave per year. It sounds as though you take your “leave” during the school holidays - is this paid or unpaid?

My leave over the holidays is unpaid. I don’t want or need any additional leave, and so I would like to be paid for the days I am entitled to. i get paid every month an equal amount (I asked for this to help me cover my bills).

9.2 is about right if you work 39 weeks at 24.25 hours and 13 weeks at 6 hours on a Saturday.

You need to work out your total annual hours, divide by 52 then multiply by 5.6, then divide by 12.

This isn’t meant to be paid as a regular amount as an entitlement “in lieu” of leave though, it is supposed to be paid as you take the leave.

Thank you @madrush
I assumed that I could have my holiday pay with my monthly wage spread evenly throughout the year, on the basis that some of the holiday I take is paid and the rest is unpaid. Is that not allowed?

You are entitled to 5.6 weeks at your normal pay, which is calculated by averaging your pay over the prior 52 weeks not including weeks you didn’t work.

A fairly common practice with those on a term time only contract would be to pay them for a total of 44.6 weeks a year, but in 12 equal monthly instalments.

The hours you work a week, so 24.25 x 52 =1261 hours a year. Your holiday entitlement is supposed to come out of those hours, not as an extra payment.

@Chloemol. I don’t work 52 weeks a year, I only work during termtime (I do work Saturdays over the holidays). I would like, if possible, to be paid for some of the holidays and take the rest unpaid. I just need to work out how much of the holidays I am entitled to.
To further complicate matters I would like my pay to be spread equally, so I get paid the same each month.

”I would like, if possible, to be paid for some of the holidays and take the rest unpaid. I just need to work out how much of the holidays I am entitled to.”

As I’ve said, you’re entitled to 5.6 weeks’ annual leave, paid at your average weekly pay.