Redundancy Pay Calculator
Work out your statutory redundancy pay from your date of birth, your employment dates and your average weekly pay. Uses the limits for redundancies on or after 6 April 2026.
The date you were made redundant, or your leaving date.
Gross pay, averaged over the 12 weeks before the day you got your redundancy notice.
- Full years counted (most recent 20 years only applied)
- 14
- Weekly pay used
- £650.00
- Years aged 22 to 40 × 1 week
- 10
- Years aged 41 or over × 1.5 weeks
- 4
- Total weeks’ pay
- 16
Age is taken at the end of each year of service, counting back from your end date.
This is an estimate using the standard age-banded method. For the legally definitive figure, use GOV.UK's own redundancy pay calculator.
Rates and rules: GOV.UK, effective 6 April 2026 (statutory redundancy pay, tax and National Insurance).
How statutory redundancy pay works
If you are an employee and you have worked for your employer for 2 years or more, you will normally be entitled to statutory redundancy pay when you are made redundant. It is the legal minimum your employer has to pay. Your contract may give you more, but it cannot give you less.
The amount depends on three things: how many full years you have worked, how old you were in each of those years, and your weekly pay. The calculation counts back one year at a time from the day your job ended. Each year earns half a week's pay, one week's pay or one and a half weeks' pay, depending on whether you were under 22, 22 to 40, or 41 or older. This is why the calculator asks for your date of birth rather than your current age: if you turned 22 or 41 during your service, different years earn different amounts.
Two limits apply. Only the most recent 20 years of service count, so earlier years are ignored. And for redundancies on or after 6 April 2026, your weekly pay is capped at £751. Together, these give a maximum statutory redundancy payment of £22,530.
Your weekly pay is the average you earned per week over the 12 weeks before the day you got your redundancy notice. If you are paid by the hour, multiply your hourly rate by your usual weekly hours, or use the hourly pay converter to turn an hourly rate into a weekly figure.
Redundancy pay is separate from the other money you are owed when you leave. You are also entitled to be paid for any holiday you have built up but not taken, so check how many days that is with the holiday entitlement calculator. You have 6 months from the date your job ends to apply for statutory redundancy pay.