Kuwait Domestic Worker End-of-Service Calculator
- Kuwait Domestic Workers Law, Article 23: end-of-service award
- Reviewed September 20263 rules still being checked
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Kuwait Domestic Workers Law, Article 23: end-of-service award
What is owed in KWD under Article 23 of the domestic workers law.
Domestic workers in Kuwait have a law of their own, Law No. 68 of 2015. Its Article 23 sets an end-of-service award equal to one month's wage for each year, once the contract's term is complete, worked out on the basic wage set in the contract. Enter the wage and the service to see what is due.
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How is a domestic worker's award calculated in Kuwait?
- Whole years = the service, with the extra months dropped
- Award = whole years × one month's wage
- The basis is the basic wage in the contract
Symbols
- year
- A complete year of service; the law mentions no fraction of one
- basic wage
- The wage set in the contract, not below the minimum wage (Article 19)
What is the award on 120 and four years and seven months?
A domestic worker on a basic wage of 120 KWD a month has served four years and seven months, and the contract's term is complete.
- Whole years: 4
- The seven extra months: not counted, since Article 23 mentions no fraction
- Award: 4 × 120 = 480 KWD
480 KWD is due. Under the part-year rule the labour law applies to workers under it, the same service would come to 550 KWD, which is the difference the executive regulation would settle if it provides for fractions.
What Article 23 says, and what it leaves out
Article 23 is the whole of Chapter Six of the law, and it reads: an end-of-service award is allocated to the domestic worker, after the contract's term is complete, equal to one month's wage for each year. That is everything the law says about the award: it sets no minimum service, no fraction of a year, and no case in which the award is lost.
Because the article says 'for each year' and provides for no fraction, this tool counts whole years only, which is the article read literally and the lower figure. Kuwait's private-sector labour law says the opposite in terms for workers under it: Article 51 gives the award for a fraction of a year in proportion. The wage here is the basic wage set in the contract (Article 19), which may not fall below the minimum wage fixed by a decision of the Minister of the Interior, while food, housing and clothing are the employer's obligations under Article 22.
The condition that the contract's term be complete is what the calculator asks about. A contract renews itself unless one party tells the other at least two months before the end that it will not be renewed (Article 16), and that same article requires the employer, when the contract ends, to hand the worker every entitlement fixed in the contract and in the law.
- One month's wage for each year (Article 23)
- Due once the contract's term is complete
- Worked out on the basic wage in the contract (Article 19)
- Whole years only: the law mentions no fraction of a year
- No article of the law takes the award away for a breach or for leaving
Questions about domestic workers' end of service in Kuwait
How much is end-of-service pay for a domestic worker in Kuwait?
One month's wage for each year, once the contract's term is complete, on the basic wage set in the contract (Article 23 of Law No. 68 of 2015).
Do the months past the whole years count?
Article 23 says 'for each year' and mentions no fraction of a year, unlike Article 51 of the private-sector labour law, which provides for one in terms. So this page counts whole years only, the literal reading, and marks the rule as awaiting review against the executive regulation and the authority's own practice.
What does 'once the contract's term is complete' mean?
Article 23 makes the award due after the contract's term is complete. A contract renews itself unless one party gives the other at least two months' notice before the end that it will not be renewed (Article 16). How the condition applies to a contract that renewed and then ended part-way through the new term is not addressed, which is why the calculator asks and why the rule is marked as awaiting review.
Is the award lost on dismissal or on leaving?
There is no article in the law that takes the award away for a breach or for leaving the work, unlike Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The law was read in full and says nothing of the kind, so the award is computed in full, with the rule marked as awaiting review against the executive regulation.
Do allowances count towards it?
No. Article 19 defines the wage as the basic wage set in the contract, not below the minimum wage fixed by a decision of the Minister of the Interior. Food, housing, clothing and treatment are the employer's obligations under Article 22 rather than parts of the wage.
When must the dues be paid?
Article 16: when the contract ends the employer must hand the domestic worker every entitlement fixed in the contract and provided for in the law.
Sources
Under reviewReviewed September 2026One figure on this page is applied the way the authority applies it; the article's own wording is still being read.
Still being checked: whether a part year counts, what completing the contract term means, whether a dismissal removes the award
Statutory articles this calculator applies
- Kuwait Domestic Workers Law, Article 23: end-of-service award
- Kuwait Domestic Workers Law, Article 19: what the basic wage is
Kuwait Labour Law in the Private Sector: Law No. 6 of 2010, as amended