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Stat holiday pay, with the dates ahead

Canada and the United States treat holidays completely differently. In Canada, statutory holiday pay is the law and each province writes its own formula. In the US, there is no federal right to holiday pay at all — it exists only where an employer's policy or a union contract promises it. Both halves are below, dates first.

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Statutory holidays in the provinces covered here, alongside the US federal calendar. Tap a province to see its pay formula, eligibility rules and a worked example.

Work out your holiday pay, any province

Pick where you work and the calculator runs that jurisdiction's own formula on your wages, with the section it comes from printed above it. The full guide adds eligibility, a worked example and what working the day pays.

the formula

(regular wages in the 4 work weeks before the work week with the holiday + vacation pay payable over those 4 work weeks) ÷ 20

Employment Standards Act, 2000, s. 24(1)

Ontario divides by twenty, so the two figures below are all it takes. Both come off the four work weeks before the work week the holiday falls in.

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Every regular hour, before deductions — but with overtime pay left out.

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Only if it was payable across those weeks. Leave it at zero if you take vacation pay on each cheque and none fell here.

public holiday payEnter your regular wages to see the day's pay.

Full guide with a worked example →

Is this one a holiday where you work?

The same date is a paid holiday in one province and an ordinary working day in the next. Each page below answers that for one day, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

The whole year, province by province

Every 2026 date named in a guide, across all thirteen provinces and territories. A tick means that jurisdiction's statute lists the day; a numbered note marks where the rule differs.

notes

  1. 1QC · Quebec does not observe Victoria Day. The same Monday is the National Patriots' Day, and it is a statutory holiday in its own right.
  2. 2MB · Manitoba legislates the same day as Orange Shirt Day, and it is a general holiday under the Employment Standards Code.
  3. 3MB · Not a general holiday under the Employment Standards Code. The Remembrance Day Act closes most businesses, and an employee who works is paid holiday pay as for a general holiday plus the overtime rate on the greater of the hours worked and half a normal work day (C.C.S.M. c. R80, s. 3.4); an employee who does not work is owed nothing for the day under the Code, and the day cannot be substituted.
  4. 4NS · Not a holiday under the Labour Standards Code, but the Remembrance Day Act closes most retail and business, and the Code's holiday-pay formula does not govern the day.

Canada: the pay is the law

Work or not, an eligible employee is owed statutory holiday pay — and each province computes it with its own divisor. Every province and territory has a full guide:

Where a province averages your wages, overtime pay is usually stripped out of the base first — Ontario, B.C., Alberta, Quebec, Saskatchewan, P.E.I., Manitoba and New Brunswick all say so. It is not a national rule, though: Yukon's ten-per-cent branch counts overtime, and the Northwest Territories statute is silent on it. Several jurisdictions never average at all and simply pay a normal day, so the question does not arise there.

Each guide goes further — eligibility, a worked example and what working the day pays. The table below carries every rule with its section.

Every jurisdiction, and the shape of its rule

Fourteen jurisdictions, and no two formulas that are quite alike. Some divide four weeks by twenty, some take a percentage of them, and several pay a normal day with no averaging at all.

Statutory holiday pay across Canada, 2026
jurisdictiondayshow the day is pricedovertime in the base
Federally regulated10Wages in the 4 weeks before the week of the holiday, excluding overtime, ÷ 20excluded
Ontarioguide →9Regular wages in the 4 work weeks before, plus vacation pay payable over them, ÷ 20excluded
British Columbiaguide →11Total wages in the 30 calendar days before ÷ the days worked in themexcluded
Albertaguide →9Wages in the 4 weeks before ÷ the days worked in themexcluded
Quebecguide →8Wages in the 4 complete weeks of pay before the week of the holiday, excluding overtime, ÷ 20excluded
Saskatchewanguide →105% of wages in the 28 days before, with overtime excluded — the same thing as ÷ 20excluded
Prince Edward Islandguide →85% of wages, excluding overtime, in the 28 days before — the same thing as ÷ 20excluded
Manitobaguide →9One regular day's pay; only where daily hours vary does an average of the 4 weeks before applyexcluded
New Brunswickguide →8Regular wages for the day; where wages vary, earnings excluding overtime over the 30 days before ÷ days workedexcluded
Nova Scotiaguide →6A regular day's pay at the regular rate. The Code sets no averaging window and no divisorno average
Newfoundland and Labradorguide →6Hourly rate × the average hours worked in a day over the 3 weeks before. The Act fixes no divisorno average
Yukonguide →11Standard hours: a normal day at the regular rate. Irregular hours: 10% of the 2 weeks before — overtime includedcounted
Northwest Territoriesguide →11Paid by time: a normal day at the regular rate. Paid another way: average daily wages over the 4 weeks beforecounted
Nunavutguide →11Paid by time: regular rate × your own normal hours, no averaging. Paid another way: an average over the 4 weeks workedno average

United States: policy, not law

The FLSA does not require premium pay for working a holiday, and it does not require paid holidays at all. It treats a holiday like any other workday: the hours you work count toward the 40-hour workweek the same as Tuesday's do, and overtime is owed only past that threshold. Pay for a holiday you did not work is not pay for hours worked: those hours do not count toward the 40, and the payment can be left out of the regular rate (29 CFR 778.218).

Where holiday pay exists, it comes from an employer's own policy or a collective agreement — and once promised, it is generally enforceable as wages. Check the handbook, not the statute.

DOL's state table flags Rhode Island’s Sunday and holiday premium: time and a half for work on Sundays and holidays in retail and certain other businesses, required under two laws separate from its minimum wage law.

For what the law does owe you on any workday: the overtime calculator · your state's overtime rules

What Thanksgiving, Christmas and the other holidays pay, and where a state or federal rule differs: time and a half on holidays

sources

Every figure on this page traces to the statute or agency page above. If one is out of date, tell us — corrections ship the same week.

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