Calculate your work history for adult education allowance

With the employment history calculator, you can calculate an estimate of whether the eight-year employment history required for adult education allowance is suitable for you.

The condition for receiving adult education allowance is eight years of work history. Until 2006, employment history is calculated according to the length of employment or business activities. Instead, starting in 2007, your employment history is calculated based on your annual earnings for each calendar year. Accumulated months of work history are obtained by dividing the earnings for the calendar year by the divisor of the annual earnings, which changes annually.

With this calculator, you avoid the hassle of calculating and easily check how much work history has been accumulated.

How to use the calculator

• To use the calculator, you need your earnings-related pension statement. You can download it from the Finnish Center for Pensions' website.
• Select the year from the counter and enter the salary amount shown in the earnings-related pension statement for that year.
• To add the salary data for the following year, press “Add salary year” and enter the salary amount for that year. If you have only had one employment relationship during the year, your payroll sum will be shown directly on your pension record. If you have had more than one employer, add together your earnings from each employer.
• Repeat the same for each year above.
• When you have entered information for every applicable year, press “See the result.
• If your work history for a year is less than 12 months in terms of income, you can add periods of equivalent employment Up to two years of periods equivalent to working – maternity, paternity, pregnancy or parental leave, child-care leave and military or civilian service – may be included in the employment history. You can check the precise dates of your maternity, parental or paternity leave on the Kela decision that you received. For the length of your child-care leave period, check the agreement you made with your employer. to the counter, if necessary.
• Your employment history in the current year will be calculated up until the planned start date of the study leave. Enter the planned start date of the study leave and an estimate of the current year's salary income up to the planned start date of the study leave.

The calculation is an approximate estimate based on the information provided by the user and is not binding on the Employment Fund.