Easter bonus in Greece 2026: half a month’s pay before Holy Week
The Greek Easter bonus, doro Pascha, is half a month’s pay for the January to April period, paid before Easter.
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Greek employers owe every private-sector employee an Easter bonus for the period 1 January to 30 April. Worked the whole four months for the same employer? You receive half your monthly gross salary, or 15 daily wages if you are paid by the day, plus the matching share of the leave allowance, applied here as 4.17 %. On €2,000 gross a month that is €1,042 gross and about €773 net after the 13.37 % social security contribution and income tax at your average rate. On the minimum wage of €920 it is €479 gross. If you started during the period or left before 30 April, the bonus is pro-rated at one fifteenth of the half-month, or one daily wage, for every 8 days employed. The base is your pay on the fifteenth day before Easter, and the deadline is Holy Wednesday, which moves every year with Orthodox Easter. The calculator below gives the gross and net amount for your own salary and dates.
Easter bonus 2026, gross
€677
€536 net
| Full bonus | €650 |
| Leave allowance share (1/24) | +€27 |
| EFKA contributions | −€91 |
| Tax (average rate of the year) | −€50 |
| Net bonus | €536 |
Paid by Holy Wednesday, based on pay 15 days before Easter.
2026 rates from Greek law, e-EFKA and the Ministry of Labour · calculated in your browser, nothing is sent.
Half a month, earned in fifteen slices
The Easter bonus works on a short, fixed window of 120 days. The full amount is split into fifteen equal parts and each part is earned with eight days of employment. On €2,000 gross, each slice is worth €66.67. Days left over at the end, fewer than eight, still count as a proportional fraction, so nobody loses a few days of entitlement through rounding.
Enter your gross monthly salary or daily wage and the days you were employed between 1 January and 30 April. If you were already employed last year, leave the default of 120 days. The result shows the gross bonus, the leave share, the deductions and the net figure.
Easter bonus by monthly salary
| Monthly gross | Half month | Leave share | Gross bonus | Net bonus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| €920 | €460 | €19 | €479 | €402 |
| €1,300 | €650 | €27 | €677 | €536 |
| €1,600 | €800 | €33 | €833 | €642 |
| €2,000 | €1,000 | €42 | €1,042 | €773 |
| €2,500 | €1,250 | €52 | €1,302 | €935 |
| €3,200 | €1,600 | €67 | €1,667 | €1,137 |
For a full-time employee over 30 with no children, employed for the whole period. The first row is the statutory minimum wage. Because the bonus is taxed at your average rate for the year, the net share shrinks a little as pay rises, but the bonus is never taxed at a special or higher rate.
Holy Wednesday and the movable deadline
Greek Easter follows the Orthodox calendar, so it can fall anywhere from early April to early May. The bonus has to be paid by Megali Tetarti, Holy Wednesday. When Easter comes early and Holy Wednesday arrives before 30 April, the employer pays the bonus on time and may settle the slice for the remaining April days afterwards. When Easter is in May, the window has already closed and the amount is final.
The movable date also decides which salary is used: the regular pay in force on the fifteenth day before Easter. The minimum wage has been raised on 1 April in recent years, including 2026, so whether that increase reaches the Easter bonus depends on how late Easter falls.
Leaving before 30 April, and days that do not count
If you resign or are dismissed during the period, you are owed the share for the days from 1 January to your last day, based on your pay that day, in your final settlement. Unjustified absences, strike days, unpaid leave and sick days paid by the social security fund are excluded from the count; paid holiday and maternity leave are not. In a window this short, a fortnight on sickness benefit costs almost two of the fifteen slices.
What the calculator leaves out
It applies the legal minimum and cannot see a collective agreement that pays more. It estimates tax with your average rate for the year, as the methodology explains, so payroll may differ by a few euros. Together with the Christmas bonus and the leave allowance, the Easter bonus is why a Greek year has fourteen paydays; the main salary calculator shows the annual picture.