<aside> 🛒 Leave purchase gives you more time for personal commitments, reduces stress, and offers flexibility, with the added benefit of potential tax benefits through salary sacrifice.

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TL:DR

What is it?

• buy up to 5 extra days leave (capped at 30 total days, pro-rated for part-time)
• manged through salary sacrifice

How to use it?

• submit a request via this form
• requests exceeding 30 total days will be declined
• approved days added to Humaans under the purchased leave drop-down

What to consider?

• must be used by 31 Dec, no rollover or refunds
• repayments spread over the remaining months of the year
• if you leave mid-year, deductions still apply

Leave purchase

You can buy up to 5 extra days of leave, depending on your length of service and working pattern. Since your annual leave increases each year, the number of additional days you can buy decreases - capped at a maximum of 30 days total.

• example: - if you have 27 days of leave (after 2 years of service), you can buy up to 3 more days
• managed through salary sacrifice - you give up part of your salary in exchange for extra leave
• cost - each additional day costs 1/260th of your annual salary and is deducted from your gross salary, which may reduce your income tax and National Insurance contributions
• payment schedule - the cost is spread across the remaining months of the year, for example if you buy 5 days in April, payments will be deducted from April to December
• different work patterns - purchased leave is prorated, for example, if you work 4 days a week (20 days leave), your maximum entitlement is 24 days, so you can buy up to 4 extra days

How to request

• decide how many extra leave days you’d like to purchase (up to 5, ensuring your total leave doesn’t exceed 30 days)
• submit your request using this form
• you’ll be asked to confirm that the cost per day is 1/260th of your annual salary

What happens next