Spanish sick pay rates: 60% and 75%
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Enter 21 days or more and watch the rate change: the result table shows the jump from 60% to 75% with its exact date.
Your pay for 21 days of leave
€657
Ordinary illness · September 2026 base (rule in force until 30 November 2026: the previous month)
| Daily regulatory base | €60 |
| Statutory benefit | €657 |
| Paid by the employer (days 4 to 15) | €432 |
| Paid by the INSS or mutua | €225 |
| Without leave you would have earned (gross) | €1,260 |
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| Days | Dates | % | Who pays | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-3 | 29 Oct 2026 – 31 Oct 2026 | 0% | Nobody: unpaid days | €0 |
| 4-15 | 1 Nov 2026 – 12 Nov 2026 | 60% | Employer, at its own cost | €432 |
| 16-20 | 13 Nov 2026 – 17 Nov 2026 | 60% | INSS or mutua (advanced by the employer) | €180 |
| 21 | 18 Nov 2026 | 75% | INSS or mutua (advanced by the employer) | €45 |
Prepared by Radif Partners · Method · Rules and agreements read in the BOE on 29 October 2026
Spanish sick pay is a percentage of the regulatory base, which is your daily contribution base, not your net pay. For ordinary illness and non-work accidents, days 1 to 3 pay 0%, days 4 to 20 pay 60% and from day 21 you get 75% until the leave ends. For work accidents and occupational disease, the employer pays the first day as a working day and from the next day you get 75%. Organ donation is paid at 100%. With an 1800 euro base, 60% is €36 a day and 75% is €45. Because the base includes the extra payments spread over the year, 75% of the base tends to come closer to your net monthly pay than it first seems.
The full scale
Royal Decree 53/1980 sets 60% for days 4 to 20 of ordinary illness and article 2 of Decree 3158/1966 sets 75% for the rest and for work accidents. Article 173 of the General Social Security Act sets the day the right starts. The table applies each rate to four monthly bases, divided by 30.
| Monthly base | Days 4 to 20 (60%) | From day 21 (75%) | Work accident (75%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| €1,200 | €24 | €30 | €30 |
| €1,800 | €36 | €45 | €45 |
| €2,500 | €50 | €62.50 | €62.50 |
| €3,500 | €70 | €87.50 | €87.50 |
Each row is one day. To know what you get in a month, multiply by the days in each band or use the calculator above, which does it for you and adds the dates. Remember that days are calendar days: a month of leave at 75% means 30 or 31 days of benefit, not just working days. Weekends spent on leave are paid exactly like any other day.
What the rate is applied to
The rate is applied to the daily regulatory base, which comes from one month's contribution base; how that month is chosen and why it changes on 1 December 2026 is in regulatory base. The base includes the share of the extra payments, so it is not your pay for the month. If you earn 1500 euros net in fourteen payments, your monthly base is around 2100 euros and 75% of it ends up close to your net monthly pay, before withholding.
A 45-day leave
Your pay for 45 days of leave
€1,737
| Daily regulatory base | €60 |
| Statutory benefit | €1,737 |
| Paid by the employer (days 4 to 15) | €432 |
| Paid by the INSS or mutua | €1,305 |
When the rate is not enough
Many collective agreements guarantee 100% of pay for part of the leave or from day one; the employer pays the difference as a top-up. We explain it, with the articles read in the BOE, in agreement top-ups. Special situations, such as disabling menstruation or week 39 of pregnancy, follow the same 60 and 75% scale but change the day pay starts: see special situations. And if the first three days worry you, the first days page explains who may pay them.