Severance Pay Calculator

📖 About this tool

What you receive when a job ends depends on three things: the reason it ended, how long you worked there, and how much you were paid. Five years of service pays one amount for a mutual agreement and twice that for an unlawful dismissal. A monthly wage of thirty thousand may be capped in a large city because it exceeds three times the local average. Enter those variables and the tool applies the current statutory provisions to estimate severance, pay in lieu of notice, overtime and unused annual leave separately.

Seven common situations are built in: mutual agreement, no-fault dismissal, unlawful dismissal, expiry without renewal, redundancy, probation failure and resignation, each mapped to the correct multiplier of N, N+1 or 2N. Service is converted at one month of wage per full year, with six months or more counted as a full year and anything less as half a month.

Alongside the severance itself there are sums that are easy to miss: thirty days of notice not given costs one extra month of wage; weekday overtime is paid at 1.5 times, rest days at 2 and public holidays at 3; unused annual leave is paid at 300% of the daily wage, of which 100% has already been paid with salary, leaving 200% outstanding. Each item is shown with its formula and amount so it can be checked line by line.

Every calculation runs in the browser with no network use and no upload, so the wages and years you enter are never recorded. The result can be exported as CSV for your own file, or downloaded as a PNG to keep with correspondence.

✨ Features

• Seven cases: mutual agreement, no-fault, unlawful, expiry, redundancy, probation, resignation.
• Multiplier handled for you: N, N+1 or 2N follows from the case, no need to recall the article.
• Cap rules built in: above three times the local average wage, the base is capped and years limited to twelve.
• Pay in lieu of notice: the extra month for missing thirty days of notice is shown separately.
• Overtime in three tiers: 1.5 for weekdays, 2 for rest days, 3 for public holidays.
• Unused leave: paid at 300% of the daily wage, with the already-paid 100% explained.
• Formula per line: every item carries its arithmetic and basis, exportable as CSV.

🚀 How to use

1. Choose the termination type; the multiplier follows from it.
2. Enter years of service plus any extra months, and the average wage over the last twelve months.
3. Enter three times the local average wage and confirm whether the cap applies.
4. If notice was short, enter the days and tick pay in lieu of notice.
5. Enter weekday, rest day and public holiday overtime hours; the hourly wage can be derived.
6. Enter unused annual leave days, and months and base if you want an arrears estimate.
7. Click Calculate for each amount and formula, then export CSV or download a PNG.

⚠️ Notes

• An estimate, not a rulingIndividual facts, evidence and awards differ; this tool accepts no legal liability.
• Keep the basis consistentThe average wage means gross pay over the last twelve months, not take-home or basic wage.
• Caps depend on regionThree times the local average wage is a local figure and varies a great deal by city.
• Overtime needs evidenceThis shows what would be due; whether it is supported depends on attendance and payroll records.
• Local onlyEntries never reach a server and the page does not retain them after a refresh.

Ending a job is one of the few moments when ordinary people need a fairly specific legal calculation, and the rules are stable enough to be computed but fiddly enough to be misremembered. Seeing the amounts broken into components, each with the formula behind it, makes a negotiation far less vague: you can tell which part is genuinely disputed and which part is arithmetic. Because the calculation runs entirely in the browser, entering real salary figures costs nothing in privacy.